• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Quite true! Our economy has been held together with duct tape, hope, and the money printer going brrrrr for the better part of two decades now.

    People forget that something like the TSA was essentially a jobs program to boost Bush’s weak economy.

    I remember working in TV and getting very upset at my coworkers defending Bush and Henry Paulson asking for $700 billion to bail out the banks, telling them that if we didn’t solve these problems the hard way at the time they would grow and fester and become harder and harder to fix without complete disaster. I often wonder if my coworkers recall that conversation the way I do.