John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 10: Finally, stop lying about our kids having to pay the price of the national debt - it's a lie.

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John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 9: So is spending using debt worth it?

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John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 8: Even though national debt is higher, interest payments and rates are lower, and no one knows why.

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Part 7: Despite what you may have heard, if the national debt is higher than GDP, the sky won't fall-in, and the economy won't collapse

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Part 6: Then came Trump and his tax cuts for the rich and corporations which raised the national debt by $1.9 trillion

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John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 5: False right-wing fear of deficits brought post 2008 austerity, and delayed economic recovery by years

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Part 4: Republicans blame the national debt on Democrats, but who is really to blame?

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John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 3: can debt be a good thing?

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John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 2: what's the difference between the debt and the deficit

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John Oliver tackles right-wing myths about the national debt and deficit.

Part 1: conservatives always fearmonger over the national debt

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Despite the BBC's research that confirmed its own journalists regularly mislead the public about UK govt debt by using phrases like "maxed out the govt's credit card" or by referring to a govt "overdraft", #bbcLaurak this morning continued to misinform her audience.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

We didn't need a public inquiry to know that Boris Johnson's hubris, ideology, and incompetence were responsible for 1000s of unnecessary covid deaths. This was already clear as early as June 2020.

#CovidInquiry #GMB #PiersMorgan #r4today

16 September 2021 - The Mash report on Boris Johnson trying (successfully) to delay the start of a Covid public inquiry.

#r4today

Slaying the the Corona Virus "great leveller" & "strength of character" myths - remember when @maitlis.bsky.social
was attacked for anti-Tory bias just for telling the truth about who was really being killed by Covid?

#Newsnight #CovidInquiry #r4today