“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, October 13, 2015

To the "Outraged" Labour MPs

No Democrat would get behind the constant Republican pressure to pass a “balanced budget amendment.” It would be the end of progressive legislation for the rest of time.

So why would Labour want to get behind a budget surplus amendment???

And BBC, this is not “unconventional.” There is no earthly reason to maintain a budget surplus. Unless you are a deficit scold, i.e. unless you want to get rid of “welfare” aka benefits.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So one may extend this reasoning to apocalyptic capitalism and conclude that the end game of neoliberalism is to use putative measures to terrorize and control an increasingly desperate population who will have no wealth at all and will work in a compliant manner merely to purchase McDonald's happy meals. A sort of commodification of the constituent consumer. I think Lenin and Chairman Mao had effective programs to deal with this sort of wealth stratification.

Incidentally, given the recent publicity over the frequent murders in or near North Dallas parks, should one avoid same or accept roaming murderers as part of a hybrid environment? One object deleting another, as it were.