Before we reveal their identities, their organizations, their sponsors and the details and aims of their decades long plan, we would like to give the reader a better idea of the damage they have inflicted (and are right now inflicting) on millions in the Western world. Let us simply tell you that for at least 40 years this ploy has been at the root of, to name just a few: - a huge chunk of the unemployment and underemployment we have known – needlessly maintained, with the destructive social ills they bring with them; - the perennial dearth of funds for Welfare projects ranging from social programmes to universal healthcare – with the enormous expansion of the urban poor we have seen and the many thousands of premature deaths that have been caused; - discrimination in schooling and higher education where only the privileged have had access to the best opportunities – with millions of our young consigned to a lesser life and a blighted future; - the erosion of workers’ rights and bargaining power to an extent unimaginable only a couple of generations back – which has lead to the present race to the bottom, to ever decreasing salaries for ever increasing exploitation in the workplace, reinforced by delocalization of jobs and outsourcing to other countries; - the problems of the older generations, whom the masterminds of this ploy the have made scapegoats for the Deficit Hysteria that has gripped our nations – making millions of decent seniors feel responsible for the lack of financial means available to the younger generations; - the de facto emasculation of the sovereign States, of their monetary sovereignty, of their legislative sovereignty, and the sidelining of what was left of the active citizenry, all aimed at preventing the majority from benefiting from the States’ legitimate wealth 5 creating powers – the hard consequences and the amazing success of this part of the ploy will become clearer as the story develops. - the privatization spree, turned unassailable economic religion, that has delivered large chunks of public assets at a discount into the hands of the international investors – delivering also entire peoples into the hands of profit seeking providers of essential services, often with unsettling repercussions on the national social fabric. - the huge expansion of a dangerously under regulated private financial sector that is today in a position to wreak havoc on any State, defrauding millions and speculating on artificially created economic crises. - the present world wide economic downturn that is inflicting massive financial damage on a host of small and medium businesses, and therefore on entire national economies and millions of wage earners.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:01:59 +0000
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