The Mueller /Barr report did not cover: Trump’s secret taxes, excusing Nazis and white supremacists, the fake Trump Foundation, the fake Trump University, paying Stormy Daniels et al, groping women, obstruction of justice, loving dictators Putin and Kim, phony loans from Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, inauguration committee, emoluments, security clearances, 10,000 lies, Trump’s refusal to testify under oath, nepotism, secret Saudi deals, campaign expenses, Trump Tower Moscow, secret meetings with Putin, and the GOP’s trying to keep the “exonerating” report a secret.
So, now that all those things are forgotten by the press, by the public and especially by the GOP, we can return to the federal budget.
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The following is yet another misleading article, meant to make you think the Monetarily Sovereign federal budget is like your monetarily non-sovereign household budget.
(The idea is to get you to accept reductions in such federal benefits as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and other aids important to the non-rich.)
A translation of each section follows immediately after the section.
February’s Budget Deficit Was the Largest in American History
The feds are $234 billion in the red. Looking for hope? Sen. Mike Enzi has some ideas.
Eric Boehm, Mar. 25, 2019The Treasury announced Friday that the federal government spent $234 billion more than it brought in during February, breaking the record for the largest monthly budget deficit.
Translation: In February, the federal government added more stimulus dollars to the U.S. economy than ever — $234 billion in economic stimulus.
Barack Obama’s Treasury Department set the previous record in February 2012 , with a deficit of $231 billion.
At that time, President Obama anticipated $1 trillion annual deficits for the rest of the decade
Translation: Barack Obama’s government set the previous record in February 2012, by pumping $231 into the economy, which was necessary grow the economy after the Great Recession of 2008.
At that time, President Obama anticipated $1 trillion annual private sector surpluses for the rest of the decade —almost identical to the projections offered by Donald Trump in his 2019 budget proposal, delivered earlier this month..
That Obama budget was roundly criticized by Republicans in Congress, who railed against the president’s “failure to control spending.”
Obama’s record deficit helped organize Republican policymaking around plans to cap spending growth and balance the budget.
The Republican Congress slowed the growth in government spending and as a recovering economy boosted tax returns.
Translation: That Obama budget was roundly criticized by Republicans in Congress, who railed against the president’s “failure to impose austerity on the economy.”
Obama’s record money creation helped organize Republican policymaking around plans to cap economic growth by balancing the budget.
The Republican Congress slowed money growth, which starved the recovering private sector of dollars.
The current record-high deficit is largely the fault of the same Republicans who once attacked Obama for spending too much.
Translation: The current record-high private sector is largely the success of the same Republicans who once attacked Obama for giving the private sector too much.
According to an analysis from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, about 60 percent of this year’s expected deficit is the result of policies—mostly last year’s huge increase in spending that shattered those Obama-era budget caps—put in place by current legislators and signed by the current president.
Translation: According to an analysis from the extremely partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, about 60 percent of this year’s expected economic growth is the result of policies—mostly last year’s huge increase in spending that shattered those Obama-era growth caps—put in place by current legislators and signed by the current president.
They can’t blame a recession. They can’t blame Obama. After years of solid if not mind-blowing growth, the budget deficit should be shrinking, not expanding.
Failing to fix the budget now will have consequences for years to come.
Over the next 30 years, Social Security and Medicare are expected to run a combined $100 trillion deficit.
Translation: They can’t credit the recession. They won’t credit Obama. After years of solid if not mind-blowing growth, the stimulus should be expanding, not shrinking.
Failing to increase the budget now will have consequences for years to come.
Over the next 30 years, Social Security and Medicare are expected to run a combined $100 trillion deficit, that the federal government can and should pay for.
If you’re looking for a glimmer of hope, it might be found in the budget plan recently released by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R–Wyo.).
Translation: If you’re looking for a flash of terror, it might be found in the budget plan recently released by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R–Wyo.).
Enzi’s budget is supposed to reduce the deficit by $538 billion over five years by cutting spending—and also, alas, by projecting probably unrealistic economic growth in the next half-decade.
Translation: Enzi’s budget is supposed to reduce the economic stimulus by $538 billion over five years by cutting spending—and also, alas, by projecting probably unrealistic economic growth (because of Enzi’s disastrous austerity) in the next half-decade.
His proposal includes cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, which make up more than 60 percent of the federal budget in a single year.
Enzi’s proposal is a serious attempt to bring the deficit back under control, even though it would not balance the budget.
Translation: His proposal includes cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, which make up more than 60 percent of the federal budget in a single year. The rich always look for ways to cut benefits to the middle classes and the poor.
Enzi’s proposal is a serious attempt to widen the Gap between the rich and the rest, even though it might not completely destroy the middle- and poorer classes.
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In Economics, everything devolves to Monetary Sovereignty and Gap Psychology.
- Economics studies the relationships among wealth, money, and human psychology.
- Monetary Sovereignty studies a money issuer’s power over the money it issues.
- Gap Psychology describes the human desire to widen the Gap below you on any economic or social measure, and to narrow the Gap above you.
The very rich control American politics. They never stop trying to widen the Gap between them and you.
Essential to that effort is convincing you of the lies that federal “debt” (deposits into T-security accounts) and “deficits” (private sector surpluses) are a threat to the U.S. economy and to future taxpayers.
The rich want you to accept the false notion that your federal benefits should be cut.
So long as their misstatements work, they will continue to promulgate those lies, and indeed, your benefits will be cut.
Only when you first understand the facts, and then protest the lies, will you be safe from the rich.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty
Twitter: @rodgermitchell
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The most important problems in economics involve the excessive income/wealth/power Gaps between the richer and the poorer.
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.
Implementation of The Ten Steps To Prosperity can narrow the Gaps:
Ten Steps To Prosperity:
2. Federally funded medicare — parts a, b & d, plus long-term care — for everyone
3. Provide a monthly economic bonus to every man, woman and child in America (similar to social security for all)
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone
5. Salary for attending school
6. Eliminate federal taxes on business
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually.
8. Tax the very rich (the “.1%) more, with higher progressive tax rates on all forms of income.
9. Federal ownership of all banks
10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99.9%
The Ten Steps will grow the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and you.
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