Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers’ compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as “free-market thinktanks”, includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and eliminate income taxes, school voucher schemes to counter public education, opposition to Medicaid, and a campaign against regional efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
The policy goals are contained in a set of funding proposals obtained by the Guardian. The proposals were co-ordinated by the State Policy Network, an alliance of groups that act as incubators of conservative strategy at state level....The Raw Story
Revealed: Conservative think tank SPN coordinating right-wing assault on education, healthcare and the environment in 34 states
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Thank you Matt.
ReplyDeleteCan we see some posts which clarify the libor rate manipulation which was used by banks so they would win the casino derivative swaps so credit unions and municipalities would have to pay ?
If interest rates rose then the banks were supposed to pay to the credit unions and cities like Detroit.
If interest rates fell, then the credit unions and cities like Detroit were supposed to pay.
So the banks rigged the libor so that they would win.
Now Detroit has lost and pensions are taken away from police and firemen.
The banks also increased the margins on their customer's lines of credits because they knew they would be rigging the rates to go down so they could win on ALL FRONTS.
i.e. small business lines of credit and probably home equity lines of credit :
the lines of credit rates consist of wall street prime and a margin.
Since they rigged the main rate to go down, the margin had to be fudge factored so they increased this on their products.
Since the prime rate was rigged, then that means the Federal Reserve helped.
Note that the headline is misleading. This is not a "conservative" thing, it's a neoliberal thing, and almost ALL politicians are neoliberal today.
ReplyDeleteBuried toward the end of the article it mentions "work in tandem with Mayor Emanuel to move it forward in the legislative process."
Politics vs effective politics
ReplyDeleteUnions vs effective unions
Electorates vs informed electorates
Now what? Training vs Edu?
Or indoctrination vs brainwashing?
So many choices offered, by TINA, Inc.