Monday, November 20, 2017
Backwards as always
News item:
The updated figures put the actual cost of the opioid crisis on the American economy in 2015 as $504 billion, or the equivalent of 2.8 per cent of GDP, according to a new report from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), a study group serving the executive branch. The half a trillion total is a sharp increase from a study released last year that estimated the cost of the opioid epidemic in 2013 at $79 billion. Most of the costs were attributed to health care and criminal justice spending, as well as lost productivity.Focusing on the cost means that the Trump admin is going to continue making the problem worse. These costs are benefits to government and Deepstate. Lost productivity strengthens the banking sector of Deepstate. Lower wages = more debt. Less manufacturing = less money going to non-Tribal "negative externalities" and more money going to the Tribe's stock manipulation casino. Law enforcement has always caused "drug problems" by removing the supply from normal commerce so that law enforcement can justify larger budgets to remove more of the supply from normal commerce so that law en..... Increasing the health care sector justifies more budget and workforce for Medicaid and Obamacare agencies, which will make health care even more expensive to pay for the increased budget, which will force more people onto Medicaid, which will justify more budg.... = = = = = For a few minutes in 2016, it seemed that Trump's speechwriters understood the PROPER CAUSATION. In fact unbearable insurance costs and the loss of useful work are CAUSING people to lose hope and faith, CAUSING people to turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide. The solution has to start with bringing back PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY, taming the banks, and taming the medical beast. In other words, FDR. The Trump admin is simply continuing previous trends.
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