Cujo359

Just another shaggy life form on the Internet

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It was not an immigrant picking strawberries at $8 an hour who destroyed the economy in 2008. It was the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street.

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Conversation between the last two humans on 🌏

HUMAN 1: It’s too bad no one could come up with a plan to protect us from global climate change.

HUMAN 2: Oh, they had a plan. They just couldn’t figure out how to pay for it.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

8 in 10 voters are worried about election security. Paper ballots & automatic audits, which we just got in PA, are the 1st step to fixing our broken elections. Next we examine secret voting machine software in Wisconsin. #Recount2016 is getting results! https://t.co/0dT6MLKFwf

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

I'm not Jewish,but if I understand their traditions correctly, if he were Jewish President Bush would have been in the ground by now.

[unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted @JesselynRadack]

If there was ever a Jewish president, s/he wouldn’t lie in state, right? Would there be a national day of sitting shiva?

[Vastleft @vastleft]

There’s some thinktank right now running the numbers to prove it’s not cost-effective to prevent human extinction.

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

If you are a progressive, and you're fixated on raising taxes to "pay for" everything, you are embracing a fundamentally neoliberal (Thatcher-like) approach to public finance.

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Remember, Thatcher was lying in order to divide us.
There *is* public money.
It exists to serve society.
(She was wrong about society too.)
#GreenNewDeal

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Here's what Keynes did. We need to do something very similar, but with the goal of transitioning to a green economy. https://t.co/3wVpeDvOlB

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

The right way to budget for a #GreenNewDeal is the way JM Keynes approached the question in his "How to Pay for the War." i.e. national resource planning. It wasn't about where to get the money. It was about how to manage the transition to a war economy.

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

@WhyAsk65 @SenSchumer @matthewstoller @ATT If you ignore discouraged workers and increase in so-called "gig economy", what we used to call "odd jobs", then yes, that's true. Unfortunately, ignoring those problems ignore much of what's wrong with employment situation,which has been bad for some time.

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

@WhyAsk65 @SenSchumer @matthewstoller @ATT US Bureau of Labor Statistics U-6 unemployment, plus "discouraged workers", which is U-5 minus U-4. https://t.co/fvWw41mfuJ

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

@WhyAsk65 @SenSchumer @matthewstoller @ATT Next time you see a report on our economy that seems confused by the fact that,even with such "low unemployment",rises aren't rising, you can count this disparity as one of the reasons for confusion.

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

@ggreenwald @es_snipes @ShaunKing had this to say today about Ms. Garner's condition: Not sure which report is later one ... https://t.co/YbqFKNpAwY

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

@WhyAsk65 @SenSchumer @matthewstoller @ATT Don't confuse the new unemployment with the old.People who give up looking for work aren't considered unemployed now.Ppl who can't find regular jobs,but can make do with odd jobs,are considered employed.Real unemployment is much higher,somewhere near 9.5% by my estimate.

[Ian Welsh @iwelsh]

Obama was a terrible President in almost every way. He oversaw a continued decline in Americans well being and the collapse of the Democratic party.

He played a good TV President, however, and most liberal Americans think that has something to do with reality

[USCPR #StopArmingIsrael @USCPR_]

"I dream of the first concert in my homeland after freedom, when all the artists who boycotted can finally come back and play." @YousefMunayyer in @jdforward https://t.co/ejRECRGKe2

[Cujo359 @Cujo359]

This thread is good advice for anyone discussing things of a complex or technical nature.Give credit/blame for conclusions where it's due,and make sure your facts are facts.It's OK to have your own opinions,just make sure you're honest about it. https://t.co/ITQTGzVUCO

[Robert M. Lee @RobertMLee]

I welcome attention to ICS security issues and I applaud folks getting involved. However at the risk of sounding rude I will say that stating things as facts when you’ve not done the research is simply misinformation and can be damaging.

[Vastleft @vastleft]

Seems a safe bet that not a single well-placed Democrat considers the plausible #BernieWouldHaveWon concept a reason to run meaningfully to the left in 2020.