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Austerity? Now there is a word that is making the rounds on the tube…..not only in the US but the entire world…at least the part that is coping with an economic slowdown…….austerity? Good word….but what does it mean?
Austerity:
1. The quality of being austere. 2. Severe and rigid economy: wartime austerity. 3. An austere habit or practice.
Austere? Oh crap now we gotta explain this!
The Republicans propose a further trillion-dollar tax cut for the financial criminals, while imposing $6 trillion in budget cuts on the American people. They represent the most rapacious and aggressive section of corporate America.
The Democrats propose to leave the financial criminals in possession of their ill-gotten gains, while demanding “only” $4 trillion in cuts. They are in alliance with the trade union executives, who agree that the working class must pay for the crisis caused by the corporate elite.
But what will the American be forced to do in these austerity plans? Yes, I said forced! Will the Repubs win this battle and we Americans are forced to give up our retirement safety net? I know it will not be me, for I am an old fart but it could effect my granddaughter….what will she have to look forward to in her declining years?
Or will the Dems win the contest and the wealthy will be paying a bit more in income taxes? But the Dems are also calling for reforms to the entitlement programs….what will my granddaughter’s declining years look like then?
Austerity! A lovely word…a bit overused these days….but a lovely word nonetheless. Will it be a shared austerity? Or will it fall on the backs of the middle class to be austere, while the top 1% live high on the hog?……..what will austerity look like?
Austerity will look like Revolution. The Rushpubliscums have had their warnings, first in Wisconsin, and now in Michigan. They can either change course or reap the rewards that they are sowing.
Hiya Jolly…welcome to the site poke around and see if you like the stuff…..you know I do not think that they will get the message……their money is yelling at them….and the rest of us be damn….
Please drop by often it is always good to have input…..thanx again….
Good post. You see? THAT’S the problem! What’s REALLY needed (if only the people would be realistic and insist on it – demand it) is a Republican Democrat government (or the or the way round – same thing). However, that’s a government that does what BOTH of the parties CLAIM they are about, rather than what they actually DO.
Yes, austerity is a good word and it’s about time people realised the fact that it’s not a bad thing either – reality will always bite people in the ass in the end.
However, to explain: I agree with almost everything that is the Rebublicans claim is the basis of what the want to achieve and SOME of the way they CLAIM it could be done (that’s NOT the way they WOULD do it, of course) – BUT I also support much of whta the Dems have CLAIMED they want to do as well – but in their case I don’t agree with ANY of their ideas about how to do it!
And that’s the crux of the WHOLE problem across most democracies – Democrats, or the left believe in programs that have a social element, but they haven’t got a f*cking clue how to implement it and create HUGE,cumbersome and almost always ineffectual legislation and the associated bureaucracies that almost always fail to function as intended. The Republicans and the right DO at least profess to live in the real world, though they rarely mean what they say and not giving a sh*t about anyone other than the rich is not even in THEIR best interests, let alone the people’s, but they just don’t get that.
Sad, huh?
Too sad! Like you, in principle I agree with both but do not like the direction either is taking…..there is a simple solution…flat tax or VAT