Reply #24: I'm just afraid of their diagnosis

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"Too much government spending" is the Plutocracy's mantra for what is the cause for every economic problem. In reality, since the 1980s, it's been (IMO) too *little* government spending on things that actually help people (infrastructure, green energy, environmental restoration, carbon mitigation, domestic food and manufacturing capacity, healthcare and raising living standards), too much on things that don't (defense), and unwillingness to collect taxes from the few that have the money pay for the things that vast majorities of voters actually want.

While for a long time Europe seemed immune to this particularly American mindset, I worry that their current elevation of appeasing "the markets" above ALL else (including the will of their own people) is taking them down the same path.

And in the process, we say "Buh-bye" to the last vestiges of democracy. Starting with Greece. How ironic.