>That prudence causes unemployment, business cycles and relative poverty. Clearly you've never had the experience of being poor, living paycheck to paycheck, d

>That prudence causes unemployment, business cycles and relative poverty. Clearly you've never had the experience of being poor, living paycheck to paycheck, deep in debt and trying to scrape together what meager savings you can. What kind of person are you, to wish that experience on someone in the name of some pseudoscientific, unfalsifiable claptrap about business cycles? Savings is how the poor move to middle class; destroying that savings is pulling the ladder out from under them.