Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy

Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces

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[Cabronosidad]

Great interview. Thanks for keeping the real issue in focus - the banking bailouts causing the present crisis. Funny how there was no grumbling about the debt ceiling from the republicans when their cronies on Wall St were getting trillions of taxpayer dollars dumped into their laps. I wonder why.

[whoo689]

How about a little austerity for THE RICH?? Why do WE as the middle- and working-class Americans always have to suffer 'austerity'?

[DavidByrne85]

"And there we are, structurally deferential to the finance sector. As Dick Durbin says, senator from Illinois - 'the banks own the place'."

[kopellhinex]

CAPITALISM creates ELITE CRIMINALS. BANKERS. DRUG LORDS. INEQUALITY. INSECURITY. GREED. RUTHLESS COMMUNISM. NWO. NAZI. TERRORISM. LAZY PEOPLE. REBEL POLITICIAN. ANARCHY. worst is WAR etc.. etc..

CAPITALISM was designed only for CORRUPT OPPORTUNISTIC MANIPULATIVE LAZY POLITICIAN. BANKERS. LAWYERS. DRUG LORDS. JUDGES. CRIMINALS. DICTATORS. RULERS. KING. SULTANATE. EMPEROR etc. etc..

HARD WORKING PEACE LOVING HAPPY HONEST SOCIETY were always the slave victim and poorly starve to death. :(

[YoBravaFrumAnuvaMuva]

EVERYBODY SHORT THE STOCK MARKET NOW!!!!! GET YOUR MONEY BACK FROM THOSE THIEVES! DON'T LET THE CURRENT MARKET "PUMP" THROW YOU OFF. SHORT SHORT SHORT...NOW!!!

[GeminiK]

For example, did he really say that he wouldn't buy a house that was depreciating because it was worth less?! You can buy the house for less, that's a good thing!

I'm disturbed, his tone of complete command of the subject doesn't mesh well with what is coming out of his mouth. I have to ask how the hell he thinks he knows anything speaking like that?

[GeminiK]

I get this terrible sense that the interviewee really doesn't know what he is saying. Quite a few things made no sense and yet he said them like if they were truth, but truth to who?

[lisento]

Maybe you should have a conversation with him on the topics you brought up.

[intelligentdiscourse]

I wish Real News Network interviewed people that actually knew what they were talking about. Rob Johnson does not fully understand the principle causes of these financial crisis. Fiat currency central banking allows governments to grow and spend unchecked, they distort the currency, and the end result is always massive inflation and the transfer of wealth to the banking elite. Stop focusing on the straw men and look behind the curtain.

[Arkinight]

And Italy now it seems.