By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--May 27, 2015
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The whole size of the economy and the GDP doesn't matter if people continue to work longer hours for low wages and you have 45 million people living in poverty. You can't just continue growth for the sake of growth in a world in which we are struggling with climate change and all kinds of environmental problems. All right? You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country. I don't think the media appreciates the kind of stress that ordinary Americans are working on. People scared to death about what happens tomorrow.So let me see if I have this straight: Children are hungry, and hungry people need food, but there isn't enough food for them because, instead of producing food, 23 different companies are making spray deodorant, and 18 different companies are making sneakers. Why, they could be producing food! Solution: Limit everyone's choices when it comes to deodorant and sneakers (and presumably everything else), then take those producers who would have made the additional choices that we don't really need, and have them make food! And who exactly will make all this happen? The governnment, of course! That's why we have government, to make sure no one makes stuff we already have enough of, and instead makes things the government thinks we need. OK . . . I can't keep this up anymore.
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