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Paul Krugman: Global Austerity 'An Unethical Experimentation On Human Beings'
"We've basically had an unethical experimentation on human beings going on across the world right now," Krugman told HuffPost Live on Friday. "All these countries are pursuing austerity policies, and in doing so, they are giving us evidence on what actually happens when you do those policies."
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WillyT
(72,631 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Amonester
(11,541 posts)and resulted in a bloody mess (i.e., La Révolution Française, for example).
Although in this century, the hypocrite ways they implement to screw the poor might be considered an experiment (since they think they will get away with it).
Earth's cloning of Venus will get them too...
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)(while daring you to get out in the streets in front of their tanks and stormtroopers to do something about it)
It's an act of Violence, Paul, not a dry theoretical exercise.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)Pepper-spray &
Yikes,
*beneath*
their
drones (a concept *born in* 1984....)
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Oh, wait...
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)The Great Depression was only "great" because of Hoover's austerity measures.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)it will be remembered as only the "pretty good" Depression.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)kickysnana
(3,908 posts)leftstreet
(36,116 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)100% Insanity.
What's our option? Batshit crazy or insanity?
Keep hoping for change we can believe in.