“The political calculus is simple: the bottom half of households don’t vote, don’t contribute to political campaigns and don’t have enough income to borrow huge sums of money to enrich the banks. They are thus non-entities in the fiscal-monetary project of maintaining the power structure of the Status Quo. All the Status Quo needs to do is borrow enough money to fund social programs that keep the masses passive and silent. Unfortunately for the Powers That Be, the cost of placating the rapidly increasing marginalized populace is rising much faster than tax revenues.”
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-fleeting-beauty-of-bubbles-and-bonds.html
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