Selective Deficit Disorder

Great article David! I’m up here in Canada where deficit terrorism has been the norm since the mid 80s. Hot buttons, once made and disseminated, are so hard to destroy. Even with the debunking of the neoliberals’ cant on this subject, via books and numerous commentaries by numerous people, the press is still full of dire warnings about deficits. But you will also find plenty of plain talk about the need for deficits sometimes! The Right is, indeed, shameless. There’s not much we can do.

Here in my neck of the woods, Whenever I’m in the second hand bookshop, I have a look for copies of Linda McQuaig’s book, “Shooting The Hippo - Death By Deficit And Other Canadian Myths,” and buy them all up. Then, when the subject comes up I am able to offer the book, free of charge (I might pay as little as $3 bucks for a book), to the interested person.

Linda McQuaig: http://bit.ly/X7tFM

We little people need to understand that if we simply sit in front of the tv and radio and let the establishment, through it’s corporate-owned media, speak at us, rather than our speaking to each other, we will deserve to be used and abused the way we are being used and abused.

Posted by Arby on Sep 23, 2009 at 9:54 PM