Economic Austerity and Social Genocide

The effects of austerity are to increase poverty, unemployment, and misery. People are fired from the public sector, welfare and social benefits are reduced or lost, retirement ages are increased to keep people in the work force and off the pension system, which is also cut. Cuts to health care and education take a social and physical toll; as poverty increases the need for better health care, that very system is dismantled when it is needed most. Taxes are increased, and wages are decreased. People are deeper in debt, and destined for destitution. The objective, we are told, is to reduce public spending so that the government can reduce its deficit (the yearly debt).

via Economic Austerity, Adjustment, and Social Genocide: Political Language and the European Debt Crisis :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website.