David Stockman Explains The Keynesian State-Wreck Ahead – Sundown In America | Zero Hedge. (FULL ARTICLE)
David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation, summarizes the last quarter century thus: What has been growing is the wealth of the rich, the remit of the state, the girth of Wall Street, the debt burden of the people, the prosperity of the beltway and the sway of the three great branches of government – that is, the warfare state, the welfare state and the central bank… What is flailing is the vast expanse of the Main Street economy where the great majority have experienced stagnant living standards, rising job insecurity, failure to accumulate material savings, rapidly approach old age and the certainty of a Hobbesian future where, inexorably, taxes will rise and social benefits will be cut… He calls this condition “Sundown in America”.
SUNDOWN IN AMERICA: THE KEYNESIAN STATE-WRECK AHEAD
Remarks of David A. Stockman at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, September 26, 2013
The median U.S. household income in 2012 was $51,000, but that’s nothing to crow about. That same figure was first reached way back in 1989— meaning that the living standard of Main Street America has gone nowhere for the last quarter century. Since there was no prior span in U.S. history when real household incomes remained dead-in-the-water for 25 years, it cannot be gainsaid that the great American prosperity machine has stalled out….
Related articles
- David Stockman – The Crisis Today Is Far Worse Than 1981- This Financial Collapse Will Be Catastrophic (planet.infowars.com)
- David Stockman: Extended Stay And The Wall Street Meth Labs (testosteronepit.com)
- ZeroHedge: David Stockman Fears Intense Resentment Over “Disaster” That Is Obamacare (silveristhenew.com)
Olduvaiblog: Musings on the coming collapse 