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The Gospel of the Free Market
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Nipawin - Thursday, January 17, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis | |
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I say that we must not exploit developing countries, we must help them out to help themselves for our own benefit and for their own benefit, and for the benefit of the common good. |
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We all know that our current recession is nothing else but consequences of the bubbles created by the gospel of the Free Market, yet we have governmental policies supporting tax cuts and privatization. This recession is mostly due to a weak demand for goods and services, and this is why inflation is low and this why investments are low. |
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However, we have another rhetorical asset in British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell who wants to stimulate his provincial economy by firing some 11,500 governmental employees and therefore saving $800 million. We have already written about Saskatchewan Health corporatism and their philosophy of saving money with saving money; Gordon Campbell is another demagogue who wants to save money by saving money. He says: |
"We have a job to do for British Columbia... I've got to get a private sector economy going," |
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What will happen to those11,500 fired employees and their families? Premier Campbell is implying that all of these employees are useless and they have been a burden for the economy for as long as they have been employed. This is non sense, and this is straight ideology coming from the gospel of the Free Market. |
Again, let me say that we are experiencing difficult times as the world for the Few and Privileged are turning our democracies to the tyranny of fascism. | |
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President Announces Step to Expand Trade & Create Jobs Remarks by the President to the World Affairs Council National Conference, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 6:30 P.M. EST For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, January 16, 2002 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020116-13.html | |
Crony Capitalism USA The Bush administration does some pretty corrupt (but legal) favors for special interests, Paul Krugman, originally published in The New York Times, 1.15.02 http://www.pkarchive.org/column/011502.html | |
Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street, by Jeff Gates http://www.sharedcapitalism.org/book.html | |
B.C. gov't workers prepare for massive job cuts CBC Canada, Wed Jan 16 15:52:44 2002 http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category=Canada&story=/news/2002/01/16/bc_jobcuts020116 | |
B.C. premier asks for perspective on government lay-offs CBC Canada, Jan 17 06:13:37 2002 http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2002/01/17/bc_cuts020117 |