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Economy

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts) Sun Jan 1, 2012, 04:01 AM Jan 2012

Thatcher Adviser Explains Conservative Emphasis On Austerity---Mass Unemployment As Policy

Cross posted from Video forum.

An adviser to Margaret Thatcher explains, in carefully and cautiously couched terms, the real reason for the conservative emphasis on austerity

Video is 1:15 long

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Thatcher Adviser Explains Conservative Emphasis On Austerity---Mass Unemployment As Policy (Original Post) Ruby the Liberal Jan 2012 OP

They want people to do less well, return to the protestant churches to find solace and become applegrove Jan 2012 #1

The usual reactionary nostalgia for the past. nt bemildred Jan 2012 #2

applegrove

(118,639 posts)

1. They want people to do less well, return to the protestant churches to find solace and become

Reply to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 12:10 AM

Jan 2012

the great economic entities that people were back in the 1800s. You know when there was no leisure time and many people ran small businesses so they worked 80 hour weeks for little pay. And the rich got ridiculously rich.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

2. The usual reactionary nostalgia for the past. nt

Reply to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 10:42 AM

Jan 2012

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