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How come "We have to do it because China does it/Is going to do it" only applies to throwing public money at scams or the weapons industry, and never investing in infrastructure (hexbear.net)

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[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago

The same reason that, a few years ago, "Keynesian Economics" was a conservative scare-word when it came to any public spending except war. Think of all the war jobs.

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