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than each other…there’s more cuts than your average barber manages in a week.

But it seems to me there are plenty of sensible, rational

and equitable alternative proposals to these cuts. Here are 4:

1. Green New Deal – thank you Ann et. al.

2. Basic/citizen’s income –

compared to allowing the banks to create money in parallel with debt this would be positively utopian…and democratic!

3. Tax/land reform

- the Report “In Place of Cuts” by Compass is a good introduction

4. Monetary Reform Campaign(s) – e.g. see Ben Dyson’s work

Meanwhile, New labour are competing to cut Higher Education funding by some 20% so there’s no let-up in this maveric and ghoulish contest as we

career towards a proper depression and misery for those already marginalised in our society.

Cable can seemingly only bring himself to express astonishment instead of anger. The Financial Responsibility Tax that Obama is going to impose is

only .15%, a drop in the bucket, yet some of our arrogant bankers have let the administration know that they intend to offset this effrontery.

Brown and Darling have been even “nicer” than this and have received some stick from certain members of the banking community. These bankers will

only get the picture if they are placed under siege – the iron fist seems to be all that they seem to be willing to understand (forget the velvet

glove).

upon. I have noticed a similar, if not identical, failing previously but at that time assumed it was a one-off. Thought this was the easiest way to

let you know.

It also, at this moment, links to Friday’s post, which doesn’t appear to be the one Ann is referring to in her latest blog.

I suspect it will not correct itself in the morning as it refers to a specific article, not the column in general.