“I am worried about my own country. The economic crisis of recent years reflects a deep, threatening, and ongoing deterioration of our national politics and culture of power.
The crisis, I will argue, developed gradually over the course of several decades. We are not facing a short-term business cycle downturn, but the working out of long-term social, political, and economic trends. It is a bipartisan affair: both Democrats and Republicans have played their part in deepening the crisis
By understanding the deep roots of the crisis, we can move beyond illusory solutions such as the stimulus spending of 2009-2010, the budget cuts of 2011, and the unaffordable tax cuts that are implemented year after year. These are gimmicks that distract us from the deeper reforms needed in our society.
The American economy increasingly serves only a narrow part of society, and America’s national politics has failed to put the country back on track through honest, open, and transparent problem solving. Too many of America’s elites, among the super-rich, the CEOs, and many of my colleagues in academia, have abandoned a commitment to social responsibility. They chase wealth and power, the rest of society be damned.”
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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That’s rich.
Poor guy, he never had a real job.
Truth from the former commie Jeff Sachs! Will wonders never cease…..
Jeffrey Sachs is a long-time member of the Rockefeller CFR, flagship of the globalist “liberal world order”, and former director of the Columbia Earth Institute, which promotes the CFR/UN sustainable development agenda. He was also a member of the “Harvard gang” which facilitated the looting of the former Soviet Union and the rise of the oligarchs in the 1990s. So much for “honest and open”.