[P2P-F] Michael Hudson video *****

Wed Oct 12 21:02:10 CEST 2011

and just a remark, for several decades, we had very successful and
relatively uncorrupt public housing in Europe, which helped millions of
working class people to a house, either through cheap rent or cheap
mortgages .. in fact, the real estate bubbles started at pretty much the
same time they stopped doing this, and housing shortages became permanent
after this ...

just to mention the example of my own family, in a country which still had
child labourers dying in their teens until the fifties, 'government
policies' insured free education, free healthcare, cheap quality housing,
allowing a child of two orphan working class parents to go to the university
...

all of this was slowly dismantled, but not completely, in the 80's with the
neoliberal counterrevolution ...

I would not be surprised if U.S. welfare institutions were gutted and
defunded, then blamed for their failures because they were 'government' ...

I'm not saying this as an absolute fan of 'government', just as a
counterpoint to the right-libertarian myth that governments are always bad
and corporations always good (I'm slightly exagerating but the essence is
really that)

Natalie, most often you will see that those pocketing the $$$ are not
'liberals' but actually archconservatives using libertarian justifications
for their looting ...

Michel

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie at cox.net> wrote:

> Hello Peers-I've been following Michael Hudson for a long time. Libertarian
> economic ideas are shunned by mainstream candidates & progressives won't
> listen with open minds. If you like Hudson & Yves Smith- maybe P2P could
> listen more carefully to details put forth by Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Dennis
> Kucinich. Not the panacea you imagine, but much closer to freedom then the
> criminals in charge now. Hope you've read "Reckless Endangerment" and
> learned how conniving businessmen used affordable housing and were
> protected
> by an aura of political correctness-to build the Fannie/Freddie scheme.
> Often regulatory capture is used by the Left to promote equality but the
> $$$
> ends up in the pockets of the liars-posing as liberals.
>
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> In this Real New Network interview Michael Hudson has put forth the best
> reasoning that I've heard favoring state banking. It is to treat the
> entire banking sector as a public utility function only. This brings the
> MMT and FF principles for fiscal policy reform into prominence by having
> the rest of the necessary reform agenda. Reiteration, a major part of the
> problem is the banking culture itself. Shifting that sector primarily
> toward functioning as a regulated, public utility. Eliminating the
> fractional reserve franchise is another line on a reform agenda.
> Re-establishing the debt free supply of currency is another agenda line.
> Countercyclical intervention to create jobs is another slice of functional
> finance fiscal policies. Repairing, building, and expanding public
> infrastructure is another entry.
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> Tadit
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> http://ampedstatus.org/michael-hudson-on-occupywallstreet-wall-street-is-a-crime-gang-a-criminal-organization-ows-video/
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