resistance to Austerity

I leave it to others to make the arguments in detail.  (Others such as the economists Yanis Varoufakis or Richard D.Wolff)  But what we are being told today is a lie.  There is enough money.  It's not true to say, e.g., that there is not enough money for health care or public education.

This is a world-wide trend aimed at destroying the lives of working people.

And one way to resist the trend is simply to say:  The advocates of austerity are lying.

Of course, if you assume a capitalist economy, then you can say:  the rich have not got a proper incentive to invest or create jobs.  My response:  there is nothing inevitable about a capitalist economy.

Others might wish to argue that even within a capitalist economy, there's no good to be gained from destroying the lives of the vast majority of people.  But my point now is simply this: why the hell should they be able to decide for us?  They shouldn't----not any more than Kings and Queens should....And the comparison with aristocracy is apt.   Tomas Paine complained that aristocrats were no better than the rest of us, and he was right.....