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and that stimulus would (as Cenk said) need to be structural. We could probably really reduce unemployment with superficial stimuli, but without structural changes ( fair trade not free trade, people before profits>by law, living wages, universal health care, etc..) it will only benefit the people a little and keep them, although employed, from enjoying a "real life." When you have to Constantly work to stay afloat, you and your loved ones suffer. Germany recognized this decades ago, because of FDR (his second "bill of rights", and created a fairly good labor policy (and universal health care of course) for their citizens. So often, I read that "if you progressively tax the wealthy, they will just move to another, less heavily taxed, country. Let them go! The jobs they create (if any) are mostly in countries with slave labor (extremely low labor prices) and do not help our economy anyway. Seriously, it is all a scam for the wealthy. If I had the capital, connections (I can find those easy enough),etc..WEALTH! I could hop on a flight to China. Locate a factory(ies) that produce products that I could sell, and set up a very profitable retail or distributorship, instead of working for a living. Amazingly (?)..lol... wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very small percentage of our population. Does anyone think that is by accident? Wouldn't it make much more sense (fair trade), that (still a person of wealth) could locate that factory in America and do the same thing? If we still had the type of tariffs (pre-seventies and Chinas "most valued trade status"), the wealthy entrepreneur could. Americans, like Europeans, could earn a living wage and belong to trade Unions to collectively bargain.
I could go on and on... "our politicians" profit handsomely from keeping the "system" the way it is. Who is this little pissant to say "this is not right."?
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