Austerity, bullies and broken spirits
....Greek citizens watched as their social safety net was set on fire:
--Greece, one of three eurozone nations to need an international bailout, has cut spending on just about everything it can — public sector salaries, pensions, education, health care and defense. As a result, unemployment has soared to over 21 percent, fueling social unrest that has sometimes turned deadly. In the last two years, riots have erupted frequently and the country's near-daily strikes and demonstrations have shut down schools, airports, train stations, ferries and harmed medical services.
If you ever wondered what Social Darwinism looks like, that's it. Social Darwinism is executed on the back of severe austerity measures like those seen across Europe and those sought by Romney and his party. It is the ultimate bullying tactic. It is using the brute strength of elected power (usually paid for by wealthy campaign contributors) to grab weakened middle class and impoverished families by the shoulders and slam them against the wall just to see what change might shake out of their pockets.
What Mitt Romney and the modern Republican Party seek, however, goes disturbingly beyond beating up on the middle class. They're not just content with squeezing families, cutting their Medicare or Social Security and listening to the clink-clink-clink as change, dreams and futures fall to the floor. No, Romney and the GOP are so cruel and so callous, their entire economic policy is premised upon the act of picking up that change and putting it in their own bloated pockets.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/13/1091102/-Austerity-bullies-and-broken-spirits
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