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Austerity nightmare

golemxiv
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 09:58:04 GMT

http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2010/06/austerity-nightmare/ Austerity nightmare By Golem XIV on June 16, 2010 in Uncategorized The future of making the Austerity plan work. That is the white paper being prepared in every capital city in Europe. Here are some of the items likely to be in it. First Pensions must be cut. First public pensions. To do this a careful campaign of demonizing public workers must be persued. Stories must be provided to journalists about ‘gold plated’ public pensions paid to ‘lazy’ teachers and over-paid doctors. Police should not be targetted. We will need them to be on our side when it comes to the tightening of rules covering strikes and public disorder. See below. Firemen, bin-men, social workers etc they can be targetted. The aim must be to question their motives for doing the jobs. The focus must be on painting them as only doing the jobs because they are looking for a cushy retirement, years before everyone else. Once the public has come to see them in this way, not only can their pensions be cut but their retirement age can be lifted and t heir salaries and ‘perks’ can be questioned. Retirement for public workers should be raised by 3 years at a date sufficiently far in the future to be ignored by most people. Once the premise is established without a fight in this way, however, both the date at which it takes effect can be brought forward and the number of years it is to be lifted by can be increased. The important thing is to get the principle accepted into public consciousness in a way that does not provoke effective opposition and only then push through the unpopular reality.