QOTD
Tabatha Southey's column today addresses the claim that we should run a country as if it was a household. A country's debt can, in complete fairness, be passed along to…
austerity
Tea-Baggin’ Congressional Rep, Joe Walsh Believes in Austerity, All Right
Including imposing it on his own children. Before I go into that, Let’s tune into some typical tea-baggin’ swill of his: “I won’t place one more dollar of debt upon…
Are The Ford Brothers Cartoon Characters?
One day it's Rob Ford lying about labour costs on the radio, then his brother is lying about the number of libraries vs Tim Hortons in his ward. This week…
KPMG – Helping Tax Dodgers & Corporate Fraudsters Everywhere
The Ford Bros Circus of Stupid decided that the best way to figure out which services we ought to toss on the bonfire was to hire auditing firm KPMG. Well,…
Mayor Ford Says: Come To City Hall Thursday, July 28, 9:30AM
Well, well, well, normally an invite from Rob Ford would end up in my garbage quicker than a brochure to take out a subscription to the National Post. But sometimes…
Gee Skewers Ford
I was about to write another pithy dismembering of the lies and stupidities of the mayoralty of His Honour Rob Ford. But then I read today's article in the Globe…
Before Wisconsin there was Puerto Rico
Governor Scott Walker's actions in Wisconsin brought the NeoLiberal agenda into the mainstream conscientiousness. Many were surprised by the viciousness with which Walker implemented his agenda yet we shouldn't have…
Mayor Ford: Lies, Stupidity and Statistics
I suppose that few people are in danger of suggesting that Rob Ford is the sharpest knife in the drawer, which makes it all the more unfortunate that he's swinging…
Ontario Austerity, the Days of Action and How Unions Became So Pathetic
There was a time when unions in Canada fought for jobs, pensions and wages like they meant it. And it wasn't so very long ago. Well, it was a while…
Italy Votes To Kill Its Economy To Save Its Debt Rating
The parasites and rumour-mongers who run the debt ratings agencies, having done their work getting the Greek government to screw their population, have moved on to Italy. Let's be honest,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Stephen Gordon weighs in again on the Cons' census disaster:Many readers may have thought that the census issue was settled last summer; it wasn’t.…
Greece: Bigger Than Lehman Brothers
What a frigging disaster. Back in 2008, the US Federal Reserve let the Lehman Brothers investment bank - which held more than a bellyful of toxic debt, go to the…
Austerity Leads to Suicide Rate Increase
Friday’s Vancouver Sun had a short item that you might have missed, “Suicides up, road deaths down due to recession.” It’s in the bottom corner of page B5: Suicides rates…
Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis a Sovereignty Crisis
Greek Parliament, Syntagma Athens – by kouk News outlets around the world have focused heavily on the so-called Greek Sovereign debt crisis this week. The proposed solution–an IMF loan package…
Greek Austerity Vote Is Just The Beginning
There was a certain amount of hand-wringing by the business press and politicians internationally that the PASOK government of Greece might not be able to pass the second austerity package…
Live Stream: 48-Hour Greek General Strike Against Austerity
The fight is on. Greek workers are under a massive assault as international bankers, speculators, governments and capitalists try to force a brutal austerity package down their throats. Last year's…
Once Again, Austerity For Thee But Not For Me
Here’s another example of financial obscenity. This time, in Europe. Yes, it seems to much for the Eurozone to lead by example. While Greece erupts in riots over spending cuts…