Inflation with Richard Wolff & Dean Baker
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How to Save the Government When You Lose Your Job
When we have mass on employment, they don't get angry at the company that fired them. They get angry with the government who was ever in power. Over the last two economic down turns, we've had millions people lost their homeso how did that happenwe couldn't pay their monthly mortgage bill? And so who threw them out of their home? The lender. That are private, capitalist institutions run by the employ ers who sit at the top of these banks. So if you've lost your home, you should be angry. But by having americans get used to blaming the government forronina, you've nicely saved the employer from getting the anger from the people whom he fired
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