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RE: Trickle Down Economics And That Time When The Banks Saved Us

in #economics7 years ago

The lie needs to be repeated at least one more time to prove me wrong.

LOL. This is such a thing, even in America. It happens far too often. We just accept what we read because the ideas we read are pounded into our head and laced with emotion.

It takes true vigilance to avoid these false messaging tactics... that or just get off facebook / turn off the tv / burn the newspaper. I prefer the latter :)

Thanks for sharing @penston!

Cheers,

~ @axios

PS: I wrote about a slightly similar topic just last night. I'm sure you can find the similarities somewhere. Here it is if you're interested: True Life: My Country's Government Has Shut Down [Here's Why That Doesn't Matter]

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I haven't seen today's newspaper headlines here in Sydney, but on Monday and Tuesday they were indoctrinating people into believing that the recent US tax cuts are stimulating global growth and that we're going to be left behind unless we cut corporate taxes to 25%. And that's not even Rupert Murdoch's newspapers!