[lbo-talk] The latest Republican offer is that they will allow the government to reopen, if...

[Carrol Cox]

Marv g: [clip] The best defence of public spending, of course, is to expose
the sham accounting which purports to show the state will run out of money
to fund social programs, and to point to truly wasteful spending on the
corporations and the military. But the governing parties in the US and
Europe are all Austerians to greater or lesser degree, and, except perhaps
in Greece, there are, alas, no parties of the left anywhere near to
displacing them.

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And there never will be such a party in the foreseeable future. That is the
reason it is so crucial for (actual) leftists to break the hold of the DP
over "leftists" [sic] in the U.S. There is no hope, period, for anything, as
long as that grip continues.

Carrol