Keith Hudson wrote: > I was not writing of "economists' time" but of the time it takes to offer > full educational opportunities to the children of any unfortunate workers > who are displaced by more efficient industries or services elsewhere in > order for the children to have a better chance of avoiding the same state > as their parents.
Trouble is that neoliberalism is NOT about "offering full educational opportunities to the children of any unfortunate workers", but rather the contrary -- letting public schools go down the drain so the only good education is at private schools that only the rich can afford. Also, neoliberalism means that the masses can only afford the cheapest junk food and take loads of drugs (alcopops, "grass"), thereby taking away their educational (mental) opportunities. > Over here -- thanks to Gordon Brown -- we have the most sophisticated tax > and credit system in the world in order to -- apparently -- redistribute > wealth, but it still means that almost 2 million low-paid people (office > cleaners, school cooks, etc) pay 70% of their earnings and credits in back > to the government in tax compared with 40% tax of the rich. After nine > years of the cleverest redistributive government in the world we still have > a bigger divide between the rich and the poor than when it took over from > the Tories. The anagram of "PM Tony Blair" is "I'm Tory Plan B" -- and his election campaign wasn't paid by an ultra-neocon for nothing. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
