Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Neoliberalism Dismantles Services to Make Elites Even Richer

Unless and until we American's -- queer and straight alike -- wake up to what is really going on in America and the World, our children and grandchildren are doomed to live a sort of feudal existence with perpetual wars, pollution, and strife.

From Alternet:
"Neoliberalism demands minimal taxes, the dismantling of public services and social security and union busting to make the elite even richer, while leaving everyone else to sink or swim.

If unchecked, Neoliberalism will catalyze crisis after crisis, all of which can be solved only by greater intervention on the part of the state. In confronting it, we must recognize that we will never be able to mobilize the resources its exponents have been given. But as the disasters they have caused unfold, the public will need ever less persuading that it has been misled."
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