He speaks like a clerical trickster, so while I oppose poverty, I don't trust this Brewer. Reeks of a desire to control and you can bet that anything he promotes will benefit himself first and foremost.

It's merely another piece that describes how the financial, political and legal systems are rigged to benefit the top 0.01% and how this pretty much institutionalizes poverty. There are two sets of rules: One of secrecy, tax havens, insider shenanigans where misanthropes and sociopaths thrive, and another that is for, to take a phrase from the lyrics of Gilligan's Island, "the rest."

None of this is new or even controversial, especially here at DU.

I'm so confused by your reply. What are you seeing that I don't?

Sorry.

While I don't know him and didn't know of him until reading this piece this morning, I don't see anything suspicious as you seem to.

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just throwing this out there, but if we're serious about ending poverty, why not have the Federal Govt. give every adult american a one time gift, tax free, of $1,000,000 to spend as they see fit?
It would only cost the Govt. appox., oh, let's say, $150,000,000, that kind of money would only fund the Govt. for about 4 hours, (I'm guessing, it might be more or less, not sure).

The catch is that people would have to be responsible on how it's spent, because, after that, no more.
And, you would still have to go to work to keep the economy working, but it would be a huge stimulus to the economy.

Like I said, just a crazy idea.

Forgot to add, those that already have a net worth of $1,000,000 or more, would not be eligible.

And doing what you suggest might cause inflation that won't go down after the money is spent. Which would in turn cause more poverty later in the long run. It doesn't fix problems like high student loans, high health care costs, and high mortgage rates. Which will probably soak up all that money you give them anyways. That's kind of why they don't do that sort of thing. If we're not trying to fix the problems that make people poor in the first place, it will just be a spike and a huge dip.

Like I said, it was just a wild and crazy idea.