Miriam wanted to train as a nurse. People needed nurses. Fairfield General had the wards. Bury North had the capacity. Westminster said there was no money for nursing bursaries. But agency nurses got triple the pay. Empty training centres locked up.

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The government creates all the money it needs so the cost is never an issue.
Keynes: anything the government can do it can afford.
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It's almost as if politicians and economists have no idea how the economy really works.
#MMT

Myth: the government has to find money before it can spend. Reality: it creates new pounds when it spends and destroys them when it taxes. Watch Finding the Money this weekend to see how currency actually works.

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Waiting lists stretch into years. Nursing wards run on agency staff. Public health services are cut to the bone. The real constraint isn't money; it's that we've accepted fiscal orthodoxy as reality. The NHS isn't a line item to balance. It's a national capacity to build.

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"Unsustainable public finances" for a currency issuer spending on pensions is backwards. The real question: are there enough care workers and beds? The triple lock debate should be about real resources, not phantom affordability constraints.

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Currency issuer asks "how will it be funded" about its own spending. The real question: what real resources and capacity does adult social care need, and is the budget sufficient to acquire them? Funding is not the constraint.

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Source: Guardian Politics

The PM's framing: pensions vs. care, pick one. The real question: why is a currency issuer treating public provision like a household forced to choose between two bills it can't afford?

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Source: BBC Politics

Ewan wanted to train as a nurse. London's hospitals needed nurses. Training rooms sat empty. Lecturers begged for hours. 200 qualified applicants were turned away. But Westminster decided not to issue the money to connect them. The capacity existed. The people existed.

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Few people know about #MMT because the neoliberal lies have been pushed by politicians, journalists and economists for at least the last 45 years. Most people don't know that austerity is a choice.

Someone will ask how you pay for universal healthcare or green infrastructure. You won't have a weak answer. Argument Builder gives you the evidence-based rebuttals that work: the real constraints, the sectoral flows, the accounting that shows it's affordable.

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Stated like the truly deluded neoliberal that you are. Go and find out about #MMT

No. I just want a government that accepts the #MMT description of government finances and then uses all of its power to to introduce a politics of care.

It would lead to a government that accepted that money is not a constraint for government.
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Green levies or general taxation: false choice. Currency issuer can fund green infrastructure without either. Real question is capacity to build the stuff, not where the money comes from.

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Government-backed body to compete with private firms is the polite framing. Real question: why utilities are competing at all. A currency issuer can provision the grid as public infrastructure without bidding against the private sector.

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Lloyd wanted to build the transport infrastructure Stretford desperately needs. Twelve buses idle in the depot. Three qualified drivers on his street with no work. A half-empty training course. The people, skills, and equipment all exist. Westminster chose not to connect them.

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