After months of searching for loose change under the couch cushions (and stopping legitimate payments to people in need), DOGE found 14 MAGIC MONEY COMPUTERS that can spit out payments for Social Security and anything else the government chooses to fund. We are so back. Rejoice! 🇺🇸
@tedcruz@elonmusk Stephanie Kelton explains it all in Finding the Money, movie which is free on YouTube and also her book The Deficit Myth in more detail, of how our sovereign issuing fiat currency actually works! Our federal deficit is a non government private sector surplus, not “debt”
Four years ago today, the paperback edition of The Deficit Myth was published. Still going strong, thanks to ongoing confusion about how a sovereign currency works.
I remember staffers in other offices complaining that they didn't get much "face time" with the boss. Bernie held weekly staff meetings and always began by asking, "What should we be doing?" Each of us was expected to bring ideas, and they damn well better be about helping people.
We’re in rural Altoona, Wisconsin, where the population is 9,287.
More than 2,000 people have lined up for our town hall today.
The working class of this country is very clear:
We will NOT accept oligarchy in America.
"Social Security automatically ceases payments to anyone who has reached the age of 115. The chief bug in the system is Musk’s ignorance." https://t.co/rkd7GsaWWZ
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
@JSFStocks@JeffW008@garyblack00 Federal deficit is not debt, it is a private sector surplus/ savings due to being a sovereign currency issuing nation Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Kelton is a brilliant teacher and explains here: https://t.co/tNBFE1CDZn
https://t.co/At2J1tE7fg
Paradigm shift in perspective on what many keep calling the U.S. deficit.. “debt”. In other words.. it is U.S. collective savings. Stephanie Kelton is a brilliant teacher!
Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.
Brené Brown spent two decades researching vulnerability—only to discover truths most people ignore:
“You can have courage, or you can have comfort. But you cannot have both.”
Here are 5 lessons from her research that will change your life forever: 🧵👇