Protests, the Banks and the neoliberal coalition

[Vague_Boy]

What is meant by 'small government' is a political system which does not interfere with the interests of big business, and which shirks responsibility for the needs of society in order to cut taxes.

 

A big government needs a big budget. At the moment the government is having to borrow £160 billion every year just to pay its bills (the deficit). If we're to have a big government, we need to find a way to pay for it that doesn't involve borrowing from now until Doomsday.

[Joe-b-1]

The neoliberal coalition are even now dismantling our services. David Cameron talks about the 'big society', but this is just another way of saying 'small government'. What is meant by 'small government' is a political system which does not interfere with the interests of big business, and which shirks responsibility for the needs of society in order to cut taxes.

 

Now many people are seduced by the idea of tax cuts, but the kind of cuts that small government deliver are such that the average employee of a multinational – the shop assistants and branch staff, may be better off by a few pounds per week. On the other hand, the CEOs and executives enjoy a weekly reduction in their taxes running into thousands of pounds.

 

Now, you may ask, why does this matter? Well, those who enjoy such enormous tax reductions on their already substantial incomes can and do send their children to public schools such as Eton and Marlborough. And if they or any of their family are ill they can purchase the best medical care available, and get the treatment they need immediately.

 

Small government cuts to state sector services such as the NHS here in Britain, together with education, residential care, and a host of other provisions, mean that the hospitals, schools, universities and care homes that most of us rely on at various times in our life, no longer receive adequate funding, meaning longer waiting lists for medical treatment, poorer education for our children, poorer care for our elderly and vulnerable.

 

Neoliberals justify their claims by the most extraordinary arguments. Ronald Reagan said 'government cant fix the problem, government is the problem', and Margaret Thatcher stated that there is 'no such thing as society'. David Cameron is being a little smarter, inventing the notion of the big society in which volunteers and charities can take over the services that our communities need. But this is just a strategy for avoiding responsibility for funding the services that we, you and me, and our families rely upon. What is ultimately at stake is the very core of public service provision, and what the neoliberal coalition really plan is a handing over of the state institutions to private companies. And instead of our taxes paying for our services, the insurance companies will clean up as health becomes a matter of payment plans and policies. American health and insurance companies are already casting their gaze across the Atlantic and enjoying the prospect of a profit bonanza. We must not stand by and let Cameron, Osborne and the neoliberal coalition dismantle the services we so desperately need if we are to survive as a true society.

 

Excellent post looks like the neonazis er sorry neoliberals have been wound up.

Truth hurts.