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https://news.yahoo.com/nofuturenochildren-teens-pledging-not-kids-130000989.html
#NoFutureNoChildren: Teens are pledging not to have kids until the government acts against climate chang

overpopulation issue has self-corrected

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Her “Just Society” proposal, comprising five separate bills, offers plenty of ammunition for critics and admirers.

It would overhaul federal guidelines on the poverty line, now defined as an individual earning less than $13,064 each year or a family of four earning less than $25,465.

Ocasio-Cortez would identify far more people as impoverished and make them eligible for government benefits.

Other bills would steer federal contracts to companies that treat workers well, curb rent hikes by landlords, or restore rights to former convicts after they have completed jail terms.

One provision certain to spur supporters of Trump’s hardline immigration policies would extend federal benefits to undocumented immigrants.

Ocasio-Cortez told reporters afterward she had yet to fix a price tag to the proposal, but said some provisions would cost nothing and others would cut spending, for example, by reducing the jail population and lowering the cost of incarceration.

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Ocasio-Cortez sells ambitious U.S. welfare legislation in home district

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-ocasio-cortez/ocasio-cortez-sells-ambitious-u-s-welfare-legislation-in-home-district-idUSKBN1WJ07J





Like other Ocasio-Cortez plans.... "who is gonna pay for it", is mysteriously absent from her proposal.

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you just print the money it's ez

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French broadcaster BFM TV said the attacker had converted to Islam 18 months ago.

Officials did not say anything about the motive for the attack and they said they were still trying to discover if there was a terrorism link.

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PARIS (Reuters) - Investigators are not ruling out any hypothesis in their probe into the fatal knife attack at the headquarters of the Paris police, authorities said on Friday.

A 45-year-old IT assistant killed three police officers and an administrative worker inside the Paris police building on Thursday before he was shot dead by an officer.

French media reported that the attacker had converted to Islam 18 months ago. Officials have not said anything about a possible motive for the attack and said they were still trying to discover if there was a terrorism link.

“No hypothesis is being ruled out at this stage,” Paris police chief Didier Lallement said at a news conference. He said he would not respond to further questions on the matter.

The attack took place on the historic Ile de la Cite island in the River Seine, close to Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.

In the past four years, the French capital has been rocked by violent attacks resulting in mass casualties.

Co-ordinated bombings and shootings by Islamist militants in November 2015, at the Bataclan theater and other locations around Paris, killed 130 people in the deadliest attacks in France since World War Two.

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you just print the money it's ez

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 6 2019 11:47pm)

You say this in sarcastic tone, but this is seriously what far-left politicians and economists are proposing. It's called "Modern Monetary Theory" and basically says that any government which can print its own currency cannot go bankrupt and can and should print vast amounts of money out of thin air to pay for massive government spending, and that printing all this money wont cause any real problems like rising inflation or interest rates or scaring off foreign investment.

AOC herself is a big proponent of MMT, which is no surprise since it provides a deus ex machina to finance all her ridiculously expensive pipedreams.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 6 2019 11:47pm)

You say this in sarcastic tone, but this is seriously what far-left politicians and economists are proposing. It's called "Modern Monetary Theory" and basically says that any government which can print its own currency cannot go bankrupt and can and should print vast amounts of money out of thin air to pay for massive government spending, and that printing all this money wont cause any real problems like rising inflation or interest rates or scaring off foreign investment.

AOC herself is a big proponent of MMT, which is no surprise since it provides a deus ex machina to finance all her ridiculously expensive pipedreams.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 6 2019 10:47pm)

You say this in sarcastic tone, but this is seriously what far-left politicians and economists are proposing. It's called "Modern Monetary Theory" and basically says that any government which can print its own currency cannot go bankrupt and can and should print vast amounts of money out of thin air to pay for massive government spending, and that printing all this money wont cause any real problems like rising inflation or interest rates or scaring off foreign investment.

AOC herself is a big proponent of MMT, which is no surprise since it provides a deus ex machina to finance all her ridiculously expensive pipedreams.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory