Monday 4 June 2012

Keynes or Dickeynes

Got a chimney to be swept, massa?  a street Urchin from the times
of Charles Dickens

Once upon a time, not too long ago, Keynesian economic theory
meant that governments could sweep away minor recessions
with loans and public works.
Well, today, banksters and their political slaves have taken away
all the rules that kept recessions from getting out of control, and
have replaced Keynesianism for the public, with
Keynesianism for themselves.
The rich get easy-street socialism while the rest of us get hard capitalism.

Look at the societies that we all built after Dickens' works,
and that of the new photographic machines,
sickened everyone by showing the world the miserable life
of most Londoners, worst of all, children.
We built a social safety net, education and health for all
(except the US) of high quality , and now we're allowing it all
to be undone, in the name of austerity.
That's our word. The rich don't get austerity. That one's all for us.

People in the European periphery, people are committing suicide
and popping off bombs. It can only get worse, unless we get
a debt jubillee.