How To Destroy An Entire Country
From a recent 188-page report by the World Health Organization come these ghastly and appalling factoids:
Joining those doctors in joblessness are 27.6% of the entire Greek labor force. By comparison, in the depths of the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States peaked at a lower percentage than that. Among Greek young adults under 25 years old, unemployment reached an abominable 64.9% in May. (Yet the unemployment rate in Greece was as low as 7% as recently as 2008.)
I'm sure that my Tea Party friends will blame universal healthcare, paid sick leave and "generous" unemployment benefits for this catastrophe. "If we simply stopped helping people, then they wouldn't need our help," they would say. You can see where that "logic" leads. The dead need no help whatsoever, except possibly burial. Sort of like this: "The Republican healthcare plan: Don't Get Sick. And if you do get sick, Die Quickly."]
So we cannot properly attribute the catastrophe in Greece to labor protection, nor can we attribute it to government borrowing. What is the cause, then? The World Health Organization has the answer: austerity. "Austerity" is a bloodless term for gross economic mismanagement, animated by heartlessness. That robotic cut-cut-cut mentality that deprives us of jobs, of public services, of safety, of health, of infrastructure, of help for the needy, and – ultimately -- of our economic equilibrium and the ability to survive. The mentality that ushers in, and welcomes, a vicious war of all against all. Austerity is destroying an entire country, right before our eyes.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/14/1262738/-How-To-Destroy-An-Entire-Country
Austerity, Sequester, Shutting down the Government are completely unnecessary, except if you want to keep control of the A LARGE PERCENT of earnings, holding the economy hostage to keep the stimulus going to Wall Street and no Job provoking policies that stimulus could do, helping the entire country.
If you have horrible polluting jobs such as Fracking or pumping filthy oil from Canada, it’s a great way to push them through saying, they make jobs but would be completely unnecessary if not slowing things down by Republicans denying money for jobs in infrastructure or other money that doesn’t go directly to Wall Street Bankers pumping up stocks in another false economy ready to explode.
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