Comments by "Helen Heenan" (@helenheenan3447) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

  1.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  If you think Richard Murphy doesn't talk about the future, then you haven't been listening, not even to this video.
    2
  2. I'm guessing none of your family ever benefitted from free movement.
    2
  3.  @VoltDweller  You MAGAS need to understand that the rest of the world thinks you are all crazy, and your little cult words like TDS don't mean anything. Go away and play amongst yourselves, while your great leader destroys democracy.
    2
  4. It's much worse for developing countries, who need the investment in their own societies.
    2
  5. The government owned Bank f England created the money withwhich to pay.
    2
  6. And politicians can do what's best for us by regulating and controlling what business is allowed to do.
    2
  7. Both Labour and conservatives are bought and paid for by the wealthy. They do their bidding.
    2
  8. Or you haven't understood anything he has said.
    2
  9. It's not speculative to report that Rachel Reeves has adopted the same economic contraints as the Tories. Her fiscal rules are the bedrock of her policy, and no different from those of Jeremy Hunt.
    2
  10. Can we ignore everything Trump threatens, just because he doesn't follow through on everything?
    2
  11. You are not wrong, but the point of the video is that Reform is not a valid political party, and has no genuine, practical policies, or the ability to carry them out.
    2
  12. He's occasionally on the Jeremy Vine show
    2
  13. You're doing Richard Murphy a disservice. If you want to read about the solutions he offers then go to his blog, or read his report Taxing Wealth 2024.
    2
  14.  @meursault7030  You asked a question. I answered it.
    2
  15. @puppets.and.muppets Money? Cash? Currency? Check the definitions. Money is not cash.
    2
  16. We are not all as clever as you.
    2
  17. Except there is no black hole. That's a political choice to frame the economy with scare quotes like that.
    2
  18. Separation of powers stops working if you have a Republican Congress and Supreme Court.
    2
  19. I think you mean privatisation, not nationalisation.
    2
  20.  @stephfoxwell4620  You seriously think ideas kill people?
    2
  21. You might benefit from Richar Murphy's other videos, which answer your questions.
    2
  22. Definitely not a science. More akin to anthropology or sociology I would guess, as a means of understanding how the world actually works in practixe; rather than trying to formalise and formulate rigid rules that can be used to predict future behaviour.
    2
  23.  @ΑΣΔΦΓΗΞΚΛ  No he absolutely was not. Why are you telling lies?
    2
  24. You missed almost everything. Watch the video again, all the way to the end. There are several solutions.
    2
  25.  @adenwellsmith6908  Clueless
    2
  26. He did, for years.
    2
  27. But that's not what Murphy said. You are attacking a straw man in your head.
    2
  28. If they were politicians with ideological convictions and values they would soon be hounded out of the party. We know our system is corrupt, we know democracy doesn't function, we know it's a corporate oligarchy. This particular video is looking at the psychology of those who do make it.
    2
  29. Another unintelligible remark from you.
    2
  30. The spending comes first, then taxation recoups the money created. It's the sequence of events that matters. Spend the money, then ta it back. It make the concept of "taxpayers money" being necessary to fund investment, a nonsense.
    2
  31. Listen to it again. It makes sense.
    2
  32. He is often mentioned on Richard's blog
    2
  33.  @adenwellsmith6908  No you do not. We didn't join the Euro, did we????
    2
  34. If you are addressing your remark to Richard Murphy, then you must know, even from watching this video (you did watch it didn't you?) that he produced the Taxing Wealth Report in 2024, which takes a very hard look at tax.
    2
  35. Private companies like Capita, Lehmann Bros, Worldcom? Yes they did really well didn't they!
    2
  36. Richard has said this many times on his blog, in his videos.
    2
  37. But it was an issue, wasn't it? I remember it was quite a prominent issue on the news. What point are you trying to make?
    2
  38. ​ @rodneyfungus8249 Theories are proposals to be debated. MMT simply describes what actually happens in the real economy, so it's not really a theory. But given your claims about it, would you care to debate?
    2
  39. That's a very good question. I think the answer has much to do with the power of the finance markets and the city, who would lose out if government openly pursued a policy of funding its expenditure through creating its own money. The Bank of England and the government (whether Tory or Labour) collude in pretending they cannot fund theirown investment. They are owned by the hedge funds.
    2
  40.  @physiocrat7143  Oh do stop with the EU rubbish. You know nobody agrees with you, an you have failed to make the case.
    2
  41. Where is your evidence for that?
    2
  42. He's British, so unlikely.
    2
  43. It's an inconvenient truth. Makes a nonsense of austerity, so not popular with our chancellors.
    2
  44. The Bank of England can create the funds for the government if necessary as it did to save the banks in 2008 and finance covid spending.
    2
  45. You clearly have not watched, or not understood any of the preceding videos.
    2
  46. THe woke left wing have been in government for the past 14 years, have they?
    2
  47.  @poesie6279  I think you might find Richard's blog helpful, or his other videos. The government spends money to provide services, and it uses new money created by the bank of England. It doesn't need taxpayers money to do this. It collects tax in order to get some of that money back out of circulation to manage inflation.
    2
  48.  @poesie6279  I think the main reason to try and understand what Richard is saying is that our politicians are deliberately choosing to ignore the fact that there is money available if they need it. We need to ask why they do that, and who benefits. Labour has completely lost its way, and is following the austerity agenda, that relies on people believing there is no money. Why? It cannot help the people who need it most.
    2
  49. RFK is right about ultra-processed food, but not about much else. As they say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
    2
  50. No they don't. If you insist that they do, then prlease provide evidence.
    2