Economists that pursue austerity are murderers.

People like Jason Furman and Larry Summers have killed thousands if not millions through austerity policies and they advise world leaders with these disgraceful, murderous policies and need to be called out for the death they breed.

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All right everybody.

It is Steve the Rogue Scholar, and folks, I still got a little bit of a frog.

I can't help it.

It's steroids has started weaning down, and I'm still a little

We'll see how long it lasts.

We'll see how long it lasts.

But before we get into all this great socialist stuff and pointing out the

Sorry.

I know.

Makes me scum.

Makes me a bad guy.

Don't listen to anything else I have to say.

I love fucking football.

All right, let's get to it.

So if you notice the image that we use for our show today, that is our

I believe this was from the two towers.

It might have been the return of the King, end of two.

I can't remember.

Rodan, I think was the The kingdom.

Any new event, the horse king, et cetera, and Gandalf and gang come

And there's Grimma Wormtongue sitting there.

Oh, surely your majesty, your greatness is oh, so wonderful.

Look at the king, and the king is dying.

He's a fricking corpse, practically.

And there's the dude from the fricking exorcist looking just as normal as can

And so to me, he represents

the orthodoxy, he represents the economists.

You think back to the movie 300 and you remember the mystics

He climbs up to get their permission and they're like, you must give the,

You must spin three times and pat your head and rub your belly.

Whatever it is.

They come up with all this bullshit right now.

I went to a thing called Economists for Peace several times, but one in

Bob Hockett was there.

James Galbraith was there.

Marshall Auerbach, Joe Weisenthal.

A ton of big names were there.

Lots and lots of big names.

Even some names that, escape me at this point cause it was years ago.

But inside there, there was a politician, his last name it was

He had retired.

He was no longer active, but what he talked about was how Congress is, and what

They don't know what they're doing from one law to the next.

They don't know what they're doing from one meeting to the next.

They have staff that slips them little three by five index cards in between

And here, don't forget to say this and here say that these people don't

They're not prepared, they don't know they're handlers, are feeding

Made a lot of things click in my head when I realized that.

And he said, look, these people are not ideologically driven.

For all the hubub out there, for all the fist in the air and the land of

Okay.

And that's including the politicians.

Many of these people are, there is a, there's an old guard, there's a group of

Either way, they're always, somehow or another still in the mix.

And those few people that really know, they're pretty fucking evil.

The rest of them are literally receiving help from grim, a worm tongue grim, a worm

And so that brings me to a Harvard economist and that Harvard

And let's, before I get into the Harvard Economist, I wanna talk

She spoke specifically in the capital order about how

There's a political problem.

The political problem is we're losing control.

The economists were there to create a solution to maintain the order,

And these wretched disgraceful people, the worst society has to offer, had to find

And this is going back to just going back to World War I in her book, but

And that is Jason Furman.

So let's share our screen here real quickly.

Jason Furman.

Now he's not the guy who wrote the thread.

Let me just be clear.

He's not the guy who wrote the thread, but he never misses a chance to take

And by extension, never ever misses an opportunity to

Sound like it's insane.

His bullshit comment is nice thread in case you don't get

Both crypto and mmt are hogwash but worth reading to understand why

Now, bunch of us got in there.

Straw man.

Bingo.

MMT is magic money printing.

You know the magic money tree you could see there?

Let's be fair folks.

I'm gonna get away.

wanna say this point blank.

If you stand against modern monetary theory if you don't know

If you ever saw the movie, if you ever saw the movie Enemy at the gates, you

He Jeff, blah, blah, blah.

It was Chris, Jeff, was it Chris?

Jeff or was it, anyway, he says, I am so and and this

And he looked at the general and he goes, hands him a gun.

And he says, why don't you do us all a favor?

The general shaken.

He looks, he's like this.

He goes into the room, shuts the door, and he's sitting there with his arms

I don't wanna die for their bullshit, and I don't want my kids

Let the people that are pushing austerity be the ones to pull the trigger.

Let them be the ones to take themselves out.

Stop taking everyone else out because austerity is murder.

Most of you only recognize the murder.

When we talk about a gun, that's the only gun you understand.

You understand a knife, you understand a gun, but you don't

Austerity literally is murder.

By reducing interest, or excuse me, by increasing interest rates.

They set the stage for making the cost of living higher.

They set the wealth gap higher by giving money to the wealthy, and they create the

And then they turn around and then they use the fiscal austerity

They stop spending and all of a sudden it dries up and then people are

I just wanna live the people that invented that mindset.

It's not real.

God didn't create it.

It's not science, it's not, it's a fucking control mechanism

And if you did that, if you're part of that, you have committed.

Most people don't realize that's murder, but it is murder and we're

We're not gonna allow anyone ever that wants to cut the deficit to get away

They're a murderer.

They're pushing for murder.

I know this seems harsh, but you must understand that if we don't sound an alarm

Any one of those, any one of those is an act of violence against the working class.

Any one of those is an act of violence.

I need you to normalize that.

I need you to get that through your head.

Stop thinking.

The only way is some young black kid in the street with his pan with the

That's what they want us to think.

They want us to hate our neighbors.

They want us to hate minorities.

They want us to hate all these people.

But the reality is, it's these rich fox in elite schools that

And of course, they're above reproach.

Of course, these people are the ones, and if you could bring pitchforks and

See, if you think that the only people that are killing people are those

They're the ones killing the most people.

They're the ones that suggest to do austerity.

They're the ones that suggest sanctions on other countries.

They're the ones that suggest these things.

They're the ones that are doing the actual grim of worm tongue.

They're in the king's ear.

They're the ones setting the stuff up.

And remember, most likely the king doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

So if the king doesn't know his ass from his elbow, how what?

We have to isolate the problem.

And the problem is Orthodox economics.

Orthodox economics, and the purveyors of economics.

Yes, Larry Summers, Paul Krugman.

All these people are wickedly evil people.

Kamaal wickedly evil people.

Wickedly evil people.

So let's go into this tweet storm here.

Let's make sure we read it.

Let's talk about through some of these are the MMT community

Furman Charles Hayden.

You sound like a Trump voter talking about C rt.

Why don't you put MMT in its place in a debate with Warren or Stephanie

It's like he would never debate anyone competent in mmt.

He would look like a complete idiot.

I will deter, delete my Twitter if he debates Warren, Stephanie Randall,

That's all he is got.

And of course it ain't what you know that gets you in trouble.

It's what you know for sure.

Now see what is missing here.

Let me just be honest.

With all due respect to all my friends and all these folks are friends, clearly

They're rp, many of 'em.

And we come in droves.

Okay?

And it's like there should be a rule that people that have to define mmt before

Anyway, whatever you see the point, it's out here.

All sorts of stuff.

There's something invigorating about people freaking about mmt.

They treat MMT akin to the arc of the covenant in the first Indiana Jones movie.

They're petrified that knowledge of the financial equivalent of the Holy of

For at least a century folks right there, that much of the financial

They know this stuff, they know it.

And here's what I said to dear Mr.

Furman.

Said, dear God, Jason Furman, A man paid to ensure austerity rules Blas

You are a practitioner of austerity that makes you sir a murderer.

Okay, now this is him just repeating this idiot.

So let's go to this idiot, Atif.

Okay.

On the connection between crypto and MMT and what tells us about money and

The MMT bandwagon was about the opposite.

We can have a utopian world as long as there's a centralized

We already have it.

Fucker.

Both were hogwash.

Look at this guy.

Let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you a quick question.

How long do you think that guy could hold up in a cage match with somebody

How long do you think he would survive in a locked room?

Look at him.

He's pathetic.

His just Wim amplified.

This is a person who kills people with their idiocy.

So imagine if the people that he is putting in harm's way had an opportunity

I think people like this take it for granted that will just assume that it's

He comes in both as hogwash.

Money is a public good.

Rather than a public trust.

I don't think that's true at all and should remain as such.

There is much we can benefit from if we can manage money properly at

Think Zimbabwe, Turkey.

See, this is the idiocy.

Let me stop there.

Let's start right there.

Let's start right there.

This right here, this guy right here is literally telling you that he

He's literally telling you, Zimbabwe.

Let's talk about Zimbabwe for a minute, just for a second.

Zimbabwe, you had a civil war going on.

You had the lands, the farm lands that were owned by the colonizers that

They knew how to produce food.

They knew how to produce grains and all the other things that they needed to do.

They were good farmers.

Moab took all the farmland.

Good for you.

Moab took it away from the colonizers.

And on the way out the door, the colonizers threw a torch in the

The villagers and everything were warriors.

They were not skilled farmers, so not only did they lose the fields behind

So they lost their food sovereignty.

So in order for them to survive, they had to take on foreign debt.

See how this plays out?

Debt denominated in a foreign currency, they could have printed a million

Payable not in Zimbabwean dollars, but in foreign reserves that they didn't have.

So let's get back to this.

Ask Crystal.

This sucker, this piece of shit, okay?

That literally is privileged but doesn't know any, but he's out

The reality about money is that there's sometimes you have to keep

No, Al algorithm can figure this out just like a cancer.

So let's talk about that for a minute.

Let's really talk about that for a minute.

Money does not cause inflation, period.

There is disgraceful, disgusting, murderous, horrific losers that

They think that the amount of money in the economy creates inflation or deflation.

The fact of the matter is that if I give one person $1 trillion, They're

They're either gonna put it in some sort of fund, they're gonna

They're gonna do something.

There's only so much money that they can spend to that 1 trillion

Okay, you and I, if they took that 1 trillion and they gave it to all

Now what you have is a situation where every single person has

Now, if production hasn't kept up to allow 350 million people

There is going to be scarcity and no amount of dollars is going to

It's gonna be a competition for a very scarce reason.

People are like, think about it like this.

Pretend like it's Grateful Dead Tickets or Dead and Company, the list Price on

Some Snapper Head camps out for a week, buys 20 tickets, goes out and sells

Is the ticket suddenly worth a thousand?

It's worth a thousand dollars because everybody wants to go, but

So they drive that up, right?

Think about Christmas.

You got the paper.

It's oh my God.

The new PlayStation five is coming up for Christmas.

Best Buy has got a midnight special.

If you camp out, you can buy a min, a maximum of two of 'em, right?

So the whole family stays out and each one has their own credit card and they

They go home and they sell these things that were sold for 500 at the store.

They now sell them for $1,500 each, and they get it.

Why?

Because there's not enough PlayStation fives and everybody wants one.

Okay?

So this is driving up the cost, but it's not a matter of the amount of money.

It's a matter of everyone being able to exact it and is their productive

Okay?

So understand this.

MMT will tell you the limits of spending our inflation, but I'm here to tell

How do you explain.

Record profits, meaning after costs, after employee salaries, after whatever else,

How do you explain Amazon with 333% profit increase during the pandemic.

That's not sales increase, that's profit increase.

And then say we've got an inflation problem.

I want you to think about what I'm saying.

Inflation is the persistent rise in all prices.

The rise in one price or the rise in another price is what

Inflation though is the persistent rise of all prices.

Okay, so let's get some terminology.

So could you see a relative value story in the housing market?

Yes.

Why?

Let's look at the number of houses available.

Let's look at the price.

Let's look at the interest rates, et cetera.

Point is all these things are being said.

To limit, it sounds so logical that we limit the amount of money into the

In fact, Milton Friedman more specifically said, all inflation is created by

Let me tell you where he's slightly right and where he is way wrong.

The government being the monopoly issuer of the currency doesn't print money,

That's how money gets created.

It doesn't get created, Hey, print up the money, Charlie.

We gotta put them on pallets and take them to the bank and then we'll use them.

Then we'll spend them.

Yeah.

That's what the dumb fucks say, right?

Yeah.

The dumb fucks say that shit.

They're printing money.

Yeah.

Fucking dumb fucks, right?

You stupid guy, don't you printing money?

Yeah.

That shit, right?

That's not how it works.

Okay, and so this is the other shit these fucking knuckleheads say.

However, when you receive it back as a tax, we know fundamentally

It's wiped out.

It's done.

Okay?

Money spent into the economy.

A reserve is tallied on the other side of the ledger.

When a taxes come back, a reserve is eliminated.

It zeros out.

Game set match.

Obviously we have this treasury general account that they have a nuera to say,

We can't have an overdraft, so we always gotta have money going into tga.

Treasuries general account, stop.

It's bullshit.

It's like the Social Security Trust fund.

It's that.

Okay, so they use these tools to try and baffle you with bullshit to

That the amount of money in there is debasing, a baseless currency.

Imagine these people.

Imagine being so worthless to think that you can debase a freeloaded currency.

How do you debase a currency that has no base?

You would have to be worthless to say that, right?

Worthless, because in the end what we're talking about really is they've

Okay, now let's get back to our dude here.

Let's get back to our guy.

He's got a lot of things to say.

We already addressed this whole thing.

To have a civilized society, we need to come up with a system of selects,

Here's the conservative here.

He con competent, upright individuals who will govern until the term ends

We have to make it work.

Sat tashi.

Namaka cannot do it for us.

Let's come to mmt or rather public finance now.

If we can manage our collective money, manage a collective money.

There's a prize that we can all share.

And what's the prize simply?

We can convince people to hand us their apples and oranges and

In return for a piece of paper, the piece of paper suddenly has value.

You are a fucking moron.

Moron.

Moron.

Okay.

I dunno how many times we have to tell the fucking money story.

The importance of the money story.

When the king

decides that he wants to have a standing army, or the king decides he

People say, nah, I don't really feel like doing it.

King goes, I'll give you a gold coin if you do it.

The guy goes, how am I gonna do with a gold coin?

I don't need your gold coin.

King's shit, you gotta point, how can we change that?

I know.

Tell you what brother?

I'll let you keep your house, but you gotta give me 10 gold coins with

The guy goes, holy shit.

How do I get ahold of those coins?

He's ha, thanks for asking.

See, I have these things that have to be done.

I have these things.

I need a aqueduct, I need a standing army.

I need.

And I'll give you 20 gold coins if you do this for me.

It's great man, I'll have extra and I can pay the thing so I don't lose my house.

That sounds great.

They're like, shit.

Yeah.

Okay, so we've got all the mileage we can get outta the house now what

Or maybe we institute a tax because we wanna stop them from doing something.

Okay.

So we call that a pian syntax.

So we do that.

But none of this is a funding thing.

The king is giving the gold coins that he created, that he owns to the people

Okay.

But he's not giving them these coins because he needs them back.

Cuz Oh my god.

Whatever will I do without the gold coins, he's giving it to 'em

That course of tax is what drives the market.

Creates the market.

It's not about your faith in the dollar, it's about your desire to stay outta jail

In the end, that's what creates the scenario.

It's very unfortunate that people have worthlessly reduced it to

Tell me what you're gonna pay your tax in.

Do you gonna pay your tax in faith?

Are you gonna pay it in songbirds, chicken necks, sexual favors?

What are you gonna pay them in?

The only thing they want is your US dollars.

They don't want Chinese, they don't want Japanese, they don't want the pound.

They don't want nothing.

They want US dollars.

Why do you think the government that creates the currency out

Oh my God, whatever will we do without the people's money, they don't care.

It's deleted folks.

They need you to need it.

That's why they impose the tax.

The tax serves as a social control.

It serves as a means of allowing the government to provision itself

It's that simple.

It's that simple.

So let's get back to Snapper head here.

So he says, and when money is run well, so it has value, government

Yes, it is true, but we've always, this is the idiot folks.

This man is a cancer.

He's a cancer.

Look at this.

This is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen in my life.

Re read that.

And when money is run well, so it has value.

You just can't make this stuff up.

This guy is just it, just horrible, evil.

He's not misguided.

He's not misguided at all folks.

He's not misguided in the least.

He knows precisely what he's saying.

He knows precisely what he's saying.

And as a result of this, as a result of this, you go back here and there he is.

Whispering in the ears of kings, whispering in the ears of students.

Whispering in the ears of Twitter has huge following.

Huge following.

Let's look at his following.

Huge being relative, but look, homeboy Bonanza has got 137,000

Princeton.

Princeton.

Look at this.

This is a gentleman right here that genuinely, I don't know

I can only know that he's an, he's a gentleman that does not understand

But guys like Jason Furman and him are in the ears of all these people.

All these people that run policy, and this is how the capital order

Sometimes we have to tighten monetary policy and of, and you know what?

There are times where it makes sense because of an import export type

These are all tools, but the idea that there's we can only spend

The deficit's too damn low.

It's a distributional problem.

Remember if the rich have got god zillions of dollars and the champagne

Imagine.

Being an academic at Princeton or Harvard, imagine being an

Talking to a world of people that are one decision away from losing

We're gonna have to tighten our belts.

These guys are the evil.

They are the evil.

They're not misguided.

Don't let any tone, police, don't let any kind of perverse sensitive person

These people are evil and they know what they're pushing is austerity.

They know they're doing it.

And when you lose your job, Twitter lays off 10,000 people and Amazon with

It's just a price to pay man.

Should have made better choices.

Should have made better choices,

should have made better choices.

I'm serious.

I wonder if these guys were not isolated in the ivory tower, if they were forced

I wonder how they'd fair.

I think we keep pointing at the wrong people.

I think we need to be looking at them.

Their profession demands.

The capital order stays intact.

Their profession demands that they be the purveyors of

And if you continue to believe that the only way death occurs is via a gun

If you don't recognize that, you may miss the most important battle of our lives.

Okay?

These guys advise aoc, they advise Rashida to leave.

They advise Ellen Omar.

They advise all these folks, the Democrats, Joe Biden, all these people.

The right wing has even worse, crazy people involved in their

Are literally advised by these people.

They can't answer any of the questions.

They just say things and they think that because you believe it institutionally,

That you'll just take it as, oh of course it makes sense.

Of course it makes sense.

Who's to argue with conventional wisdom?

Who's to argue with that?

So I look at this and I say to myself, unless I get you all to begin really

You didn't know it, you didn't realize you are the, you're the

Oh, we, oh, by the way, we have MMT folks that are.

Absolutely advising folks.

The problem is that the orthodoxy is powerful.

The orthodoxy didn't come to power without violence.

Orthodox economics is about violence, it's about oppression.

It's about ensuring the order stays intact.

It's class war.

It's about ensuring that no matter how many bad mistakes the rich make,

This is not by accident in any way, shape or form.

This is what they're there to do and all the people that are crushed by

Not that you need to normalize that it's murder.

You need to normalize.

You need to talk to your friends about these economists that are pushing

Don't fucking downplay that.

They're literally trying to make your life hell to entrench

So there's a lot of gentlemanly people out there that won't say This stuff is murder.

I don't know why.

I don't know what they gain from it.

Whether they wanna still be able to go out to dinner with these people at five

These people are murderers.

They're killing people.

Their recommendations for how to clear markets in the global south

You've seen what we do when we need real resources instead of handling our

There's millions of Middle Easterners dead in pursuit of these kinds

The austerity narrative is powerful.

That's why everyone, and I've talked about this before, and Clara Matay talks

Austerity is meant to entrench the capital class period, to entrench it,

No, we're not getting sold in shadow slavery.

Now what we're doing is we're in an open air prison of the same variety and

So I know that we've got a lot of sensitive people that don't like

Sometimes you've gotta be the one because everybody else is sleepwalking folks.

They're bumping into walls.

Eight bits though.

What did you say?

It's clueless.

If you have the knowledge, you must wake them.

See, for years I've taught though MMT is a state, public monopoly.

It's a creature of law.

It's is that we've talked about it extensively.

The extent.

Hey Joel, put that austerity murder t-shirt out there.

You're out there.

Please somebody put that austerity murder.

I have it somewhere.

I'll get it out there to you cuz it's awesome.

I love it.

But I want you to be aware, serious.

When these people start talking Obama, I want you to think about Obama.

We gotta eat our peas.

We gotta tighten our belts.

Austerity.

Immediate austerity.

Okay, austerity.

If you understand that, bill Clinton, we gotta make government efficient.

We're gonna build a bridge to a new tomorrow.

Yeah, we're gonna redefine government.

We're gonna put a lifetime cap on welfare.

Five.

Five years.

We're gonna make it hard for single moms.

We're gonna balance a budget, we're gonna have a surplus.

And all the Democrats went who?

Bill Clinton had a surplus and W spent the surplus away.

Fucking you Imagine.

What kind of moron kinda worthless Fuck would say.

Phil Clinton took more money out of the economy, ended automatic

Made life hell.

Joe Biden made filing bankruptcy almost impossible, made eliminating student debt.

Almost impossible.

That's austerity.

And what's worse is you see every vote, blue sick affair running around.

We need Democrats in office cuz they're the only ones

They'll reduce the deficit.

Imagine.

Imagine being that person that's swayed by that disgraceful thinking.

Imagine being that person and thinking that's okay.

It's like

imagine it.

Imagine.

Celebrating Bill Clinton.

Reducing the deficit, eliminating well, going after the welfare queens.

Imagine that.

E it.

Once you understand that, if you can look at them in the same way as good people,

It's just misogyny?

It's just misogyny.

If you don't like Hillary, although she said, I'm gonna follow Bill's

I'm gonna ship the jobs outside the United States.

I'm then in turn gonna turn it into service economy, and then I'm gonna

If you could celebrate that, you're sicker than the Republicans,

You're a perverted person, you're gross.

I'm not giving people passes for being misguided anymore.

I'm.

I'm not giving them passes anymore.

I have not seen it benefit us at all.

I have not seen any of giving them the benefit of the doubt

I have not seen any evidence.

All the gentleman's club out there dealing with this guy.

These people, okay?

The Jason Furmans of the world, right?

My god, here, let's get back to Furman here.

Now that you know what, nice thread in case you don't get

So once we get into that and we just recognize how bad this whole thing

Many of them are just fist in the air, in the land of hypocrisy, getting

Think about this Congress, article one, section eight says, Congress

Imagine electing a Congress critter that doesn't understand modern monetary

Imagine

So when these advisors come through and they tell these people these things,

when you understand that, when you see guys like this come up and you realize

Imagine being so party devoted that you can't think for yourself.

Imagine being so completely and utterly blocked from reality that all you care

How many fingers am I holding up Winston for four.

No, Winston, whatever the party tells you, if the party tells you it's three.

If it tells you it's five.

Whatever the party tells you, we tell you it was Russian bombs.

That it was Russian bombs.

Even if it was Ukraine, we're gonna tell them that.

Just the party said, we

imagine.

Imagine that.

So we've got several battles going on.

We've got the rank and file that support austerity unknowingly.

We've got the politicians who support austerity unknowingly get into office.

Their regular people don't know their ass from their elbow.

They don't know, they have no idea.

But damnit, they're loud and proud and they're in office.

And then you got the old timers that really do know, and you've

I'm telling you, economists, neoclassical, Orthodox economists are the devil.

They were the problem lies.

They are the ones that are doing this.

And then they work hand in glove with a media that's not trained either.

A media that's just trying to get a story out the door.

Who has a if you remember, I did a interview with a journalist

And she talked about the fact that most of these writers don't

They've got deadlines, they've got editors, they've got other people

So the publishing of mainstream media for these narratives is atrocious,

Think about this.

Jeremy Corbin couldn't economic his way out of a paper bag, but he's a socialist.

So you're caught in this weird pickle.

He's fighting for labor.

He's an idiot when it comes to economics.

Now, if you're smart and you're not an asshole, that just like I love

He doesn't know economics.

He's got the right sensibilities, but he always comes back.

His answer is always the taxpayer dollar, all the old sound finance,

On one hand, he's saying these revolutionary things while

Really hying and pushing austerity.

Bernie Sanders, we're gonna have a Wall Street speculation talks.

All right, let's talk about that for a minute.

Bernie Sanders was around Stephanie Kelton forever.

His wife, Jane Sanders knows Mmt brother Larry out there.

Greens from e UK knows mmt.

Bernie has built a life around careful messaging.

Unfortunately, Bernie never fully openly embraced mmt, though.

He gave Stephanie run of the land.

But when it came down to it, he would always say, we're gonna

Let's talk about that.

Wall Street speculation.

If your goal is to curb speculation, you'll put a tax on, it's

The goal is not to raise funds from a pian tax.

The goal is, in fact, to change a behavior.

So once you put a pian tax on Wall Street speculation, now all of a sudden the

Once you curb Wall Street speculation, what does that do to the revenue stream?

If you're trying to fund a project via a pian tax your revenue drains

You're not trying to fund a program.

Programs are all self-funding.

Every single solitary program, including the military, including

It is self-fund.

The government doesn't collect revenue to spend.

It collects revenue to keep you needing the demand for that currency.

So when you talk about making things harder, what is the point?

It's a batter of social control over you and I.

It's when the great resignation happened, what happened?

People had a little bit of extra and they decided they didn't

They didn't wanna do the do.

They wanted off the hamster wheel.

Thes couldn't have that.

They needed to degenerate a recession to force people back to work.

This is austerity.

This is what they do.

And so when you see these guys.

Who are actively pushing austerity like Jason Furman.

It's important to understand.

Very important to understand.

He's not ignorant.

He knows it's malevolent, it's murder.

So how do you message that to people whose ears burn Whenever

I don't know.

For me personally, I'm repulsed by people that get offended by harsh language.

I find them to be repulsive in their own way.

I find them to be Karens.

I find them to be, can I talk to your manager?

I find them to be the polite police that literally crush the suffering

Okay?

I despise the polite police, the tone police despise them.

Because they silence the alarm.

They blunt the instrument, they dull the tip of the spear, and they're

I want you to think about that.

Now, I want you to think about something else too, in this process, because the

It has a different set of rules than the currency users who receive

So when you look at a state, you've gotta be able to manage

Almost all states, I think one Connecticut, I believe it is, doesn't

It's the only one.

Every other one has to.

So these governors, these municipalities, they either have to really be great

Layoffs, reduce services, tax increases, you name it.

All right, my voice is given out on me.

I'm gonna leave it open.

I know there was a bunch of super chats, so I'm gonna go through

Let me just say point blank.

Thank you all for all your great support.

I really hope you guys are getting something from these shows.

I'm trying to make them interest.

I am intentionally being strident.

I'm intentionally being harsh to try to make the point do

A hundred percent.

I believe these people are evil murderers.

I'm not lying.

That's not hyperbole in any way, shape, or form.

But I'm gonna go ahead and share these super chats cuz I

We need them very much.

We need people to become monthly donors too.

Thank you Double K for the super chat.

1999 and coming through here we got Mark Fabian.

He says the last person we hang will be the one who sold us the rope.

Carl Marks.

And then we've got another double K.

Thank you so much.

Once again, double K as we scroll through.

Let's see.

Okay.

I know there was more.

Yes, there's Kate.

Cat, Faye Garrett.

Thank you.

Steve is bringing the laughs to austerity, economics and mmt.

I hope you're feeling better, Steve.

Thank you.

I hope I am too because this is getting annoying.

Double K again, my God snapper head.

Love it.

Yes.

I got a million chuckled nicknames.

Trust me.

Keep going.

I'm a sucker for Super Chats and I'm not gonna lie, I will read them out

Here's a bunch of stuff.

Don't forget to get the austerity is Murder t-shirt.

You can find the link in the live chat.

Make sure we get that out there.

Alright, I think we're getting to the end.

My goodness.

There's a lot of comments.

I love it.

All right.

With that in mind, it's getting close to lunchtime.

I've got, or excuse me, getting back to work time.

I really hope that you guys are getting something from this.

I genuinely do.

I know it's hard.

Some of the stuff is hard.

Some of the stuff I've come up with synthesizing from other people,

Maybe it's original, I don't take any claim to original content and other

My assessment of this about it being murder, though I believe that it's known,

I'm ashamed that more people don't call it murder.

I am, I'm ashamed that people don't call it murder.

With that, my friends, I am Steve Grine.

I am the Rogue Scholar.

I will not be live on Friday because.

We're getting a puppy.

We're getting a puppy.

Family needs some loving, so we're getting a puppy.

So tell you about the puppy at another live stream.

His name is going to be Mr.

P's.

That's what our kids decide they wanted to name.

It's gonna be a little teeny.

Jack Russell Terrier should keep me interesting lifestyle as I try

I am the Rogue Scholar.

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