“"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon”
![“Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/945/hillary-clinton-51_1930s_let-s-stop-for-a-second-and-remember-whe_3099032.jpg)
![“Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but it seems we just take everything in stride.” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd6/bill-maher-211_bigger_even-when-federal-reserve-chairman-ben-b_2654226.jpg)
![“What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans and so forth) - has made Wall Street bankers and financial people excessively, unfairly, out-of-proportionally rich.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f15/rush-limbaugh-28_bankers_what-i-think-is-bugging-this-guy-steven_28590.jpg)
