do you remember what the link looked like

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2018

this might be close enough

late

I believe it the homepage was green

found it

https://www.thegreenpapers.com/G18/events.phtml?format=chronological&type=e

yeah, when you said 'green' I immediately went to look for that one

Hey

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/157555181

new thread

@Rhodesiaboo what's up ?

Where is that headline from

CNN

Oh yeah, going back to the race in Maryland, do you know who the Republican candidate is? A former CIA agent

Sam Faddis

lmao

a cia agent potentially competing against an intelligence leaker

what a world we live in

Meaning, if Manning gets elected in the primaries, she would be up against a CIA agent. So Manning would probably have the upper hand rofl

I think having Manning in the senate would be much more interesting than having some generic democrat in

Oh yeah definitely. Cardin is a shill to Israel and expanding NSA surveillance

@Snickers you say you're a leftist, I'm curious, what specific form of leftism do you believe in?

I said earlier I was socially and fiscally liberal

fiscally liberal as in a lot of programs, w/ more taxes?

liberal's a pretty broad term

a lot or more programs but less taxes and more government spending

taxes don't fund government spending

how would you offset the debt

whats wrong with the debt? what's wrong with the deficit for that matter

the interest rate the Fed puts on the debt increases as the deficit/debt gets larger

in a couple decades, interest on the debt is going to be one of the largest items of expenditure

this causes a pretty large budget crisis the further out we get, financial crises and the such

lmao didn't intend for this to turn into a debate

When interest rates go up, the government pays more into the debt by increasing the deficit. And because the federal deficit is private sector savings, it will stimulate the economy depending on who is holding the bonds

I don't think that's very sustainable though

seems a bit of a Keynes thing

Also with regard to the interest rates, we don't really know whether or not it will speed up or slow down the economy

I guess I would fall more towards Keynes, but I guess I would be a post-Keynesian, more specifically someone who follows MMT

I'm more of a per capita economic kind of guy