Craig Bowers

“the government relies on two sources of funding: it can raise your taxes, or it can borrow your savings.”
― Stephanie Kelton, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

“people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems

“We now find our gods not on the altar, but in the bottle of alcohol, the football match on television, the new pair of shoes and the arms of the casual lover.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“The debt isn’t the reason we can’t have nice things. Our broken thinking is. To fix our broken thinking, we need to overcome more than just an aversion to big numbers with the word debt attached. We need to beat back every destructive myth that hobbles our thinking.”
― Stephanie Kelton, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy