Sunday, February 17, 2019

Renegade Inc - Death by a Thousand Cuts

The PPI and PFI scam: the government can borrow money at record low interest rates but is locked into PFI deals at 8% to 10% instead.

The Conservative government is corrupt, as well as the Liberal Democrats and New Labour because they all clamber to the corporations who see the NHS as the big one - where serious money can be made. They are hoping to siphon off much of the what the government spends on healthcare, or add charges on top. These corporations and insurance companies brag to their investors how they can provide less service to the public while maximising profits, which they are by law obliged to do. Ross Ashcroft describes it as rent extraction.

The U.S. war machine is busy at work destroying one country after another to maximize profits, while the neoliberals are still busy finding more to privatize to shove even more profits into the hands of the few. And then there is the pay back, where the politicians leave government to get top jobs in finance or the privatised companies. The revolving door.

Tony Blair apparently now has his own yacht so he doesn't have to feel inferior anymore when entertaining his rich and powerful oligarch friends. He rose through the ranks and  overcome the inequality gap. Socialism for the rich! He's still a member of the Labour Party.

Once upon a time society had values, for instance, very bright young women would leave school with 5 O-Levels to train as nurses because they felt a duty to provide a service to society, but it seems everything is only about the money now.

Killing millions of people is very profitable too - and Iran probably next after Venezuela.

No one would believe you, would they, if you told them this is how the world works? How did a few psychopaths in charge manage to corrupt the World so much, so that even the Guardian pumps out pro-war propaganda. Where the U.S. can make an open grab for Venezuela's oil without most people thinking much about it. It seems the elite won't stop until they own the World, and have privatised everything. And they are prepared to risk destroying the whole planet to get it.

Maybe this is the reason they should be taxed at 70% and limit their wealth to 30 million, or whatever society deems necessary, because it might take away their drive for war, and for their need to own everything, as they won't be able to earn anymore money out of it.




For years corporate interests have had their eye on one of Britain’s biggest assets namely the National Health Service.
Working quietly with unprincipled politicians they – and the corporate media – claim the NHS can only survive if it is subject to‘free market’competition.
So why is the British state continuing to privatize the NHS despite overwhelming evidence that the outcome will be deadly?
Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by the former doctor and campaigner, Sarah Gangoli and the GP and author, Youssef El-Gingihy explain how the national treasure that is the NHS is suffering death by well over a thousand cuts.



1 comment:

Andrew Anderson said...

but it seems everything is only about the money now. Kaivey

How were government privileges for private-credit-for-usury creation not supposed to end badly since those privileges constitute welfare for the rich at the expense of the non-rich? Because the resulting efficiency gains in production would render any injustice in distribution a simple matter to remedy via taxation and income redistribution?

And hows that working out?