There's more than one way to skin a cat

[mqbush]

Lately, in Britain, popular protests are confronting the idea that the only way for their economy to survive is to cut services to the people who had already paid for them,-by pointing out that “necessary” funding cuts that would drive 200,000 people from their homes could be canceled out by just one corporation paying off the tax debt it has owed for years. Multiply this by all the wealthy tax deadbeats paying what they owe, and Britain’s economic crisis could be shrunk to something easily manageable without cuts to what makes civilization civilized.

Britain’s version of Tea Party protests are smart and practical and they put the focus exactly where it needs to be forcefully focused,-on those vast and arrogant corporations which- if they had paid what they owed all along- could have kept state and federal budgets afloat. Will people in America and other countries start pointing out the obvious,-that there’s plenty of money, we’re not going to run out of it, it’s just that it’s all in the hands of modern Robber Barons who tell us that there is no money left and that it’s up to us to pay the charges racked up by them.

In Wisconsin we’re seeing a similar story line. The wealthy, who took our money, are to be given even more- as tax breaks- while the governor intends to make up all the shortfall by taking from people who are working as teachers, firefighters, police,-taking away even any future possibility of their recovering what they used to have, by outlawing collective arbitration. All the usual lies keep getting shouted at us that basically boil down to: nothing else matters except the comfort and ease of business, we have to give up everything, if necessary, to keep business happy and profitable. This is a ruthlessness we haven’t seen since the last time the Robber Barons ruled. It’s worse this time, because they had unions to destroy this time.

[KurtNYC]

1. skinning cats, killing multiple birds with one stone ?

why were these EVER considered GOOD things?

[jberryhill]

4. Well, if you a bird in hand, you can coax the cat away from the bush

Then, grab the other bird, kill both of them with one stone and skin the cat.

Okay?

[pacalo]

2. Excellent OP.

[gkhouston]

3. K&R. Come on, guys, one more rec to send this to the Greatest. n/t

[lonestarnot]

5. No class war raging egh?

[ClassWarrior]

6. Yup. The Uncut movement. It's brilliant.

NGU.