Out of The Closet

As we know, the past 30 years have seen an orgy of job destruction, income reduction, and oligarchical domination in the private sector that has, in the past few years, fallen on the essential public workers, teachers, firemen, police, and etc. We all also know that there is some committee or another meeting to come up with cuts and tax increases to balance the budget.

What to expect? More of the same:

Both Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who heads the Senate counterpart, sent letters to the super committee Friday urging, if not downright begging, the 12 deficit deciders not to touch the Pentagon's discretionary budget, although Levin suggested the panel propose a commission to look into finding savings in the military retirement and health care systems.

That's right, cut people not things. After all what did people ever do for you?

To Market To Market Jiggity Jig

Ya know, Neoliberals are vicious and want to destroy the world:

Private buyers would want those degree-awarding powers for use overseas for “online and distance education”, Mr Stanfield said. “They would think there is a huge market in that, particularly in Asia and the Gulf.”
The firm buying a stake would see the degree-awarding powers as an intellectual property right, Mr Stanfield said. “What private equity wants to do is take that current IP right and brand and do more with it…”
Asked whether whole or partial buyouts by private buyers were likely in the near future, he said: “I would expect to see something within the next six months, maybe sooner…”

This in England Stanfield is talking about, so this guy is arguing for a rapid-fire sale of institutions that are what they are because of state support whose worth, value, and cost are impossible to determine sold to the highest, or possibly lowest, bidder. What the hell, let's just sell the state to Root, Brown, and Kellog and end the pretense.