They’re not bad at economics, they’re simply lying about what their goal was. That $150mil didn’t just blip out of existence like in a video game, it ended up in people’s pockets.
I would bet good money that many of those pockets belonged to friends and family members. Neoliberals have been using this tactic for decades as a way to turn public funds into private profits.
For example, do we really think that Republicans don’t believe in climate change? Their uneducated electorate, maybe, but a bunch of ivy league educated lawyers sitting in DC? They know. They just prioritize profitability over truth, and we’re all left to pick up the pieces.
We in the US have the illusion of democracy, a non-representative government that purports itself to be ‘for the people’. It keeps up the illusion just enough to maintain its own existence.
They’re not bad at economics, they’re simply lying about what their goal was. That $150mil didn’t just blip out of existence like in a video game, it ended up in people’s pockets.
I would bet good money that many of those pockets belonged to friends and family members. Neoliberals have been using this tactic for decades as a way to turn public funds into private profits.
Or it just went into overtime for enforcers to sit around a train station watching a monitor.
I keep saying this about politicians in general.
For example, do we really think that Republicans don’t believe in climate change? Their uneducated electorate, maybe, but a bunch of ivy league educated lawyers sitting in DC? They know. They just prioritize profitability over truth, and we’re all left to pick up the pieces.
We in the US have the illusion of democracy, a non-representative government that purports itself to be ‘for the people’. It keeps up the illusion just enough to maintain its own existence.