Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity Monday 11 July 2011 by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed
There is a certain irony in the fact that the party of debt has now become a flock of austerity hawks. . . . . . . . . . . . . .there are also disturbing signs that US society is moving toward an authoritarian state largely controlled by corporations and a grotesquely irresponsible financial elite.(30) A market-driven society is not synonymous with democracy and the privileges of the rich and the corporate elite do more to crush democracy than uplift society as a whole. Any society that allows the market to constitute the axis and framing mechanisms for all social interactions has not just lost its sense of morality and responsibility; it is given up its claim on any vestige of a democratic future. Market fundamentalism along with its structure of extreme inequality and machinery of cruelty has proven to be a death sentence on democracy. full: http://www.truth-out.org/trickle-down-cruelty-and-politics-austerity/1310134880
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