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Jeb Bush’s Favorite Author Rejects Democracy, Says The Hyper-Rich Should Seize Power
At the height of 2011’s debt ceiling crisis, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered a candid explanation of why his party was willing to threaten permanent harm to the U.S. economy unless Congress agreed to change our founding document. “The Constitution must be amended to keep the government in check,” McConnell alleged. “We’ve tried persuasion. We’ve tried negotiations. We’ve tried elections. Nothing has worked.”
The amendment McConnell and his fellow Republicans sought was misleadingly named the “Balanced Budget Amendment” — a name that was misleading not because it was inaccurate, but because it was incomplete. The amendment wouldn’t have simply forced a balanced budget at the federal level, it would have forced spending cuts that were so severe that they would have cost 15 million people their jobs and caused “the economy to shrink by about 17 percent instead of growing by an expected 2 percent,” according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. It was, in essence, an effort to permanently impose Tea Party economics on the nation, and to use a manufactured crisis to do so.
Jeb Bush s Favorite Author Rejects Democracy Says The Hyper-Rich Should Seize Power ThinkProgress
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Jeb Bush Says His Views Were Shaped By Racist Author Charles Murray
Although Bush didn’t specify which of Charles Murray’s books he used to shape his views, he must surely be aware of the controversy surrounding Murray’s most well-known book, titled the The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. The Bell Curve is a pseudo-scientific racist tract that argues that black people are genetically inferior to whites intellectually and that White Americans have more wealth essentially because they are more intelligent than African-Americans.
Jeb Bush Says His Views Were Shaped By Racist Author Charles Murray
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Jeb Bush’s Favorite Author Publishes A 318-Page Rant Against Democracy
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CNN Hosts Charles Murray's 'Sue The Government Into Oblivion' Tour
CNN Hosts Charles Murray s Sue The Government Into Oblivion Tour Crooks and Liars
And Hebby is considered the smart one?
Sorry for the bold.
At the height of 2011’s debt ceiling crisis, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered a candid explanation of why his party was willing to threaten permanent harm to the U.S. economy unless Congress agreed to change our founding document. “The Constitution must be amended to keep the government in check,” McConnell alleged. “We’ve tried persuasion. We’ve tried negotiations. We’ve tried elections. Nothing has worked.”
The amendment McConnell and his fellow Republicans sought was misleadingly named the “Balanced Budget Amendment” — a name that was misleading not because it was inaccurate, but because it was incomplete. The amendment wouldn’t have simply forced a balanced budget at the federal level, it would have forced spending cuts that were so severe that they would have cost 15 million people their jobs and caused “the economy to shrink by about 17 percent instead of growing by an expected 2 percent,” according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. It was, in essence, an effort to permanently impose Tea Party economics on the nation, and to use a manufactured crisis to do so.
Jeb Bush s Favorite Author Rejects Democracy Says The Hyper-Rich Should Seize Power ThinkProgress
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Jeb Bush Says His Views Were Shaped By Racist Author Charles Murray
Although Bush didn’t specify which of Charles Murray’s books he used to shape his views, he must surely be aware of the controversy surrounding Murray’s most well-known book, titled the The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. The Bell Curve is a pseudo-scientific racist tract that argues that black people are genetically inferior to whites intellectually and that White Americans have more wealth essentially because they are more intelligent than African-Americans.
Jeb Bush Says His Views Were Shaped By Racist Author Charles Murray
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeb Bush’s Favorite Author Publishes A 318-Page Rant Against Democracy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CNN Hosts Charles Murray's 'Sue The Government Into Oblivion' Tour
CNN Hosts Charles Murray s Sue The Government Into Oblivion Tour Crooks and Liars
And Hebby is considered the smart one?
Sorry for the bold.
