A CHANGE IN PARADIGM That means a complete change of approach towards the economy, one which was urgently required anyway. The immediate question which arises is: is our present, extremely ideological government, up to the job? Take Treasurer Joe Hockey. In a 2012 speech to the London Institute of Economic Affairs Hockey insisted that nations must slash spending along the lines of the European austerity model, despite knowing the fact that it will, as the pin-striped banker-stooge said, likely “result in a lowering of the standard of living for whole societies as they learn to live within their means.” (Emphasis added.) That lower standard of living now leaves their populations at the mercy of Ebola, but Hockey insisted then that democracy must not stand in the way of the deep cuts to government spending on health, education, and other essential services that the banking elite dictate in order to preserve their financial supremacy. CEC leader Craig Isherwood made it clear today that either the Australian government dumps the old paradigm which binds us to globalisation, “the market”, and bean-counting budgets, or the people must dump the government. “It is time for emergency government action akin to a war mobilisation to save humanity”, Isherwood said. “My friend and collaborator, American economist Lyndon LaRouche warned from the mid-1970s that the ‘zero-growth’ economic policies imposed on Africa could create ‘a breeding-culture for eruption of epidemic and pandemic disease’, and we have long been passing on those warnings in this country. I now call on the Australian government to take the immediate action required, both locally and in assisting the international efforts to halt this pandemic.” Isherwood concluded that all Australians should join with the CEC to force the government to drop their deadly ideology and act to boost our health care defences.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:40:48 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015