Euro Crisis, Neo-Liberalism and Undoing the Welfare State

Gerry Epstein: German elite profited from the Euro Zone, now wants to use crisis to undo welfare state and privatize

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• Europe
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• Germany
• Greece
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• Spain
• Euro
• crisis
• economy

[Laoch111]

Why are so few shouting for a wealth tax? Those billionaires and millionaires need a battering! The whole system is sick.

[workwillfreeyou]

Free Market Capitalism = Freedom and Democracy for the Ruling Families to loot everything in the Planet = The Dark Ages. Get back to work you stupid slave.

[LasagnaIsGood]

@LasagnaIsGood sorry, half a trillion, get so confused with these large numbers sometimes : )

[LasagnaIsGood]

yeah half a billion,150% of their GDP national debt isn't that big

[MrWelsh200]

€ made us need to negiate with dictorships of Russia....oh we can not fall deeper.

[sheepblitzer]

let's face it, our modern political and economic system concentrates power in the hands of a few. When that happens the rest are screwed, as we are seeing. We need a whole new system. "Native" cultures had it, Spaniards in the 1930's almost had it. It shouldn't be too hard to imagine, as 99% of humans that ever existed lived this way. No bosses, no rulers.

[elbowbiter1]

Crash fucker, let's see the whole thing crash. Let's see the rich send their slaves to war using nuclear weapons just because they can't enjoy their luxuries any more. Let's watch this planet burn and our loved ones suffer and die because the rich and their slaves can't imagine a society without rich people enjoying most of the fruits of the labours of the poor. There is no reasoning with people that won't let go of an obsolete paradigm. They need to see their children die under it first maybe.

[sirellyn]

@atosafi1 I should point out how ludicrous poppers argument is. A controlled market is bad. To use the line of logic, we'll do something bad to prevent others from doing it, is inane. And doesn't prevent the latter from happening anyway.

Parents who say we'll beat you at home so you'll be unattractive enough that the bullies won't at school. OR

Gov saying, we'll steal because if we don't drain you dry others will try.

These are stupid stupid arguments.

[sirellyn]

@atosafi1 Right, and a "truly murder free city" will never exist. But that value of striving towards one makes to make the former point rather unimportant.

[kroovyandcal]

@workwillfreeyou Nice going. Three thumbs up. Cognitive dissonance truly works.

[atosafi1]

@sirellyn As I said, politics aimed to create a free market are the cause. A "truly free market" will never exist. Corporatism is a direct result of unfettered, unregulated, free-market capitalism. As Karl Popper said "If government does not intervene and try to control markets, other shady organisations, such as trusts and multi-national predators, will". If you allow the markets to run amok, there's nothing stopping them from banding together to monopolize markets and infiltrate government.