This isn't a "budget crisis." Money doesn't just disappear. We are witnessing one of the greatest transfers of wealth from poor and working people to the elite in human history.
We're told that we all have to make "sacrifices." Students have to take cuts and pay higher fees, workers have to take furoughs and layoffs. But the folks at the top of the economic pyramid aren't sacrificing at all; in fact, they are benefitting from our sacrifices.
The destruction of public education, social services and infrastructure is the way that our public wealth, which we all invested in for the good of society, is being taken away from us and our children. When we are forced to take cuts, those that both engineered and now benefit from the crisis get off the hook.
What happens when we refuse to take cuts? What happens when we join forces with everyone in society who is suffering lost jobs, home foreclosures, medical debts, loss of public assistance (in other words, the people in our own families who aren't necessarily students)? Well, what happens is that those who stole our money (banks, corporations, wealthy individuals) will be forced to put up their fair share. We can stop covering for them whenever we want.
This isn't a "budget crisis." Money doesn't just disappear. We are witnessing one of the greatest transfers of wealth from poor and working people to the elite in human history.
ReplyDeleteWe're told that we all have to make "sacrifices." Students have to take cuts and pay higher fees, workers have to take furoughs and layoffs. But the folks at the top of the economic pyramid aren't sacrificing at all; in fact, they are benefitting from our sacrifices.
The destruction of public education, social services and infrastructure is the way that our public wealth, which we all invested in for the good of society, is being taken away from us and our children. When we are forced to take cuts, those that both engineered and now benefit from the crisis get off the hook.
What happens when we refuse to take cuts? What happens when we join forces with everyone in society who is suffering lost jobs, home foreclosures, medical debts, loss of public assistance (in other words, the people in our own families who aren't necessarily students)? Well, what happens is that those who stole our money (banks, corporations, wealthy individuals) will be forced to put up their fair share.
We can stop covering for them whenever we want.
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