Not quite how I planned this blog as intended to start some months ago. Time has been mine enemy. The current cuts bonanza has reminded me of the invasion of Iraq a little. 100s of thousands of innocents dead apparently for the greater good. Well if any were my relatives I may have a different view. Often the ones bombing are idealogs who will not be directly, emotionally or otherwise, affected by the carpet bombing.
This is a post on the BBC website in response to a question on the cuts. Oh sorry I mean spending review. After a meeting with David Cameron I was asked to refrain from using the word cuts in reference to the cuts. So the word cuts and spending review will now mean one and the same. This is just so i dont say cuts too often when referring to it, the spending review.
I digress. My response on the BBC blogs:
History will prove this to be all folly. There is only a feint whiff of pragmatism in all these cuts. An ideology of small government is stinking through all of this and no one seems to notice. They say that after a few minutes in the pigsty you don't really notice the smell any more!
"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid
improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication,
draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation."
Now that simply wont happen if we cut everyone out of a means to make money and grow. Investment, investment, investment by Education, education and so on. We are blindly ruining a whole generation all because of some libertarian extremism brushed up as the country's saviour!
Oh Karl Marx wrote the quote. So even the so called inventor of Communism was really a social democrat at heart. The solution is more important than the method of achieving it. The question is, what is the solution in your mind?
Confidence is the key here. This is not achieved by demoralising a nation. There is a good way out of this. This is not it. This is a confidence trick
10 years ago
