Grassroots campaigners, unionists and students are joining together to be part of a growing movement. But this movement has the edge. It is about every day people fighting for their quality of life. It is about working class people, disabled people, rich people, poor people, students, teachers, black people, white people, tall people, small people, married people, single people, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren: you get the picture - this campaign belongs to everyone. It is a campaign to defend our liberties from the unnecessary, unfair and unjust cuts. The ConDem Government is not run by leading economists and the risks they are taking by implementing such deep cuts is terrifying. It was their billionaire banker friends’ risky gambling habits which created the deficit in the first and now they are treating our economy with the same risky hasty, careless ideas.
Deep cuts slow down the economy – they reduce the tax take and therefore make the deficit practically-impossible to close. We are being fed rubbish about “work shy benefit scroungers” and “the problem with immigration” and our “crisis-state economy” but these are tactics to convince Joe Public that the cuts are… and here’s that word again… “Necessary”.
Cutting benefits is not a fast-track into work, it is a (proven) fast-track to crime and theft. It is illogical and hypocritical to suggest that you can take peoples benefits away so they have to get a job when the wave of job-cuts means that there simply isn’t the work out there. We need investment in employment programs investment in new innovative green energy resources which would create jobs, solve our energy problems and finally give Britain a lucrative trade export.
The cuts are not necessary – they are a class attack. Think about it this way, tax-payers money bailed the banks out (we are talking £trillions) and now they’re cutting out services, our arts, our jobs, our benefits, our education to put that money back? That is not OK. The banks owe US money and they’re still not lending to small business. The banks owe US money and yet they still got their bonuses. The banks owe US money, yet are stills stealing all ours.
Say no to cuts. Fight for the alternative - because there are many alternatives. It’s about people – not profit.
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