In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- Cartel-driven Politics
- The debates reveal the agenda of the deep-pocket donors
- Our Broken Health Care & Education Systems
- They serve the cartels at the expense of their customers
- ‘Burnout’ Is Becoming An Epidemic
- And this is during the “good times”?
- We Need A Movement Focused On “Meaning”
- Isn’t that (and happiness) what really matters in life?
This week Chris and Charles take a close look at the platforms being promoted by the bevy of presidential hopefuls, and lament the lock-step commitment to the same “business as usual” that is destroying the prospects and well-being of everyday Americans.
Rather than looking critically at the “borrow and spend” addiction that is drowning us under an unserviceable mountain of debt and liabilities, the candidates are hustling to out-compete each other in spending $trillions more. All, of course, in service to the corporate cartels donating to their campaigns:
One of my frustrations is that of the 21 or 23 Democratic candidates, whatever the number is now, who is standing out with anything addressing the realities of the financial realities of the US economy?
Everyone is saying, “Let’s give away more money. Let’s borrow more money and give it away. And then I’m going to buy the election and that’ll make all the problems go away.”
Where is all this money going?
by cmartenson 
