What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?
As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.
Here's what we recommend for MLK Day:
Courtesy of The Real News Network (if you haven't checked it out, you should--they have had unusually good coverage of the economic crisis, with frequent appearances by left economists), we have a recording of MLK's Riverside Church speech on April 4, 1967 against the Vietnam War.
And from The Nation website, Dr. Martin Luther King's Economics: Through Jobs, Freedom, by sometime D&S author Mark Engler:
Mark Engler, a senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus, is the author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books). He can be reached via www.DemocracyUprising.com.
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