Ep 11, Part I: The Deficits Racket -- Single-Payer Propaganda War by Citations Needed Podcast published on 2017-09-27T13:20:30Z The idea that we’re “running out of money” and have to “tighten our belts" is a common trope in US media; the premise that the US government is like a household that must balance its books, largely taken for granted by liberal and right-wing outlets alike. But is this premise correct? Is it true that the United States is over-budget and ready to explode with insolvency? Where does this conventional wisdom come from and whom does it benefit? On this and next week's show we seek to answer some of the questions. In Part I: Single Payer Propaganda War, we examine the primary talking points against Single Payer and other big government programs and how to combat them with guest Stephanie Kelton. Genre News & Politics Comment by Magnus Aronson-Aminoff Useless useful dumbsters 2021-05-16T12:15:23Z Comment by user756543099 the crux of it. 2020-04-23T19:36:44Z Comment by MaouriCeltic Most right wing of the social sciences 2019-11-13T23:56:58Z Comment by Luther Mangrum great episode thanks for the MMT info, gonna research more 2018-09-02T08:52:35Z Comment by steve_from_richmond Yes, please continue to attack the military budget. It is obscene. But your guest, Ms. Kelton, simply uses the old “straw man” trick. She shoots down myths, one after another, but fails to address seriously the downside of the US government spending vastly more than it takes in. “The limit is inflation,” Ms. Kelton opines. Well, when hyper-inflation hits, please have Ms. Kelton return and explain to a suffering public why she waved this consequence away with these four innocuous sounding words. Put another way, you are being imprudent ideologues by thinking that government can spend infinitely with no consequences. 2018-02-02T02:15:23Z Comment by Himba You should do some media crit on this! Far-left parties in the UK exclusively (or at least I haven't found one that did otherwise) backed a Leave vote. The debate was set up to be presented as racists vs. nice people because suggesting there was a left-wing case for leaving would've condemned the establishment backed remain vote. The Laval and Viking Line rulings (curtailing the right to industrial action), the Maastricht Treaty (enforcing a deficit cap on nation budgets), their treatment of Greece (ravaging the countries infrastructure to provide a baillout to central banks holding greece debt) and their miserable treatment of refugees (deportations and letting 5000 people drown in the Mediterranean until it became politically inconvenient to act like it wasn't happening) were all factors that ed me, and all other socialists I know, to back a leave vote. Our media denied the chance for a real debate on the subject. 2018-01-04T10:43:18Z
