How can making millions of people unemployed make any economic sense? How can the continuing wars and loss of life make sense? Does paying bankers and the banking system millions make any sense? Is there any sense left? The creeping 'Tea Party' politics of massive cuts to our services and the fundamental change to our political and economic landscape, will lead to a collapsed economy. A world in which the poor only exist and the rich prosper from further exploitation of our environment and the few remaining workers. This is no longer alarmist economics.
We must develop a new political programme, which expresses a profound moral and economic case against punishing the people who live in poverty in favour of the speculators, the bankers and the rich. It should be clear by now that that tax increases, cuts in welfare are not halting our sluggish growth. Rising inflation, a spending slowdown and a reduction in our standard of living is already impacting on many families and their own economies. I have already set out a sound economic alternative and a case against the current policies, but through the forthcoming struggles it can be developed.
Perhaps we should start by taking a lead from the student protests and campaign for a massive surge of resistance, if we are to avoid these austerity outrages. Ivor Timson.
