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Offline wilber

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #1605 on: April 03, 2021, 06:06:29 pm »
I would have thought preventing disease and the loss of life would be justification enough. I suspect the endemic corruption that existed long before COVID in Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela is what put them in the poor house. But hey, what do I know, perhaps the only real way to create prosperity is with a little corruption.  Too much is probably bad for you but given how many corporations seem to have forsaken most western countries perhaps we're not corrupt enough.   
I'm taking about printing our way to the end of the pandemic.  Why did you change the topic from getting thru a pandemic to creating prosperity?  There's no justification for clouding the issue this way.

I'm just saying there will be long term consequences to all that spending. Those consequences could be trying to service a crippling debt which would put us no further ahead in the long run. There were those who maintained it doesn't matter what we spent, anything was justified, it didn't matter if a few dozen billions were wasted or miss directed, speed was all that mattered.  It does and it wasn't.
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