Why governments cut services
#Austerity: Shifting resources from the working people to the rich who live off of dividend and rent.
#Inequality #Capitalism

“Cut services, fund the rich”

https://youtu.be/8RhMZtaoPEQ?is=pCV1Y3rHnA9Y9qyT

>AfD verdoppelt, SPD in der Krise: DAS ist der Grund<

Eine ominöse #Mitte ist nur ein Teil v. Gesellschaft

Die #SPD hat es nicht begriffen, was in Deutschland gerade passiert und wie ernst die Situation ist.

Wer in Zeiten einer massiv erstarkten rechten Partei noch immer an der #Austeritaet / #Austerity klebt, statt zu investieren, macht den Weg frei für die AfD.

#LarsKlingbeil und der #SeeheimerKreis haben nichts mehr von der #Sozialdemokratie am Leben gelassen ❗

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3HMAI-cOGQ&is=V2rcMYwGeCzofi7I

"Carney's Grand Ambition On Trade Does Not Include Trump."

"Trade ministers🚨from Europe and Asia-Pacific countries will meet on the sidelines of a WTO gathering this week to hammer out priorities for building an alliance that excludes the US."

Trump's: "America First," is America Last.

#Economy #US #Trump #Recession #Trade #Tariffs #Austerity #TrumpRegime #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #NoKings #Protest #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/03/26/trade-carney-canada-eu-us-trump-wto-00844444

"#IranWar🚨to be paid for out of cuts to st & loc programs for Americans."
-R Filipkowski

Th R HSE Study CMTE is backing plans for a 2nd reco bill:💰for #ICE, a war supp/DEF$ & COL policy priorities. And, they’re demanding that it be “fully paid for,” per RSC’s steering CMTE.

This will be the major fight with Sen Rs *mostly prefer a narrower pkg, w/o DEF$, & want to avoid a battle over spending cuts to fully offset the cost of another GOP bill.
#Austerity #Protest #USPol
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2026/03/26/i-just-want-to-go-home-00845889

In the by-election in #Scarborough Southwest on April 13th there's an alternative to #MarkCarney's policies of corporate friendly #austerity and support for war.

Fatima Shaban is the #NDP's working class community/tenant activist candidate.

#Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #NDP2026 #Toronto

https://www.tiktok.com/@fatimashaban9/video/7621377552925379861

It's a weird time to be working at #LincolnUniversityNZ.

We've bounced back from the earthquakes and covid lockdowns and there's been an optimistic buzz in the air. The earthquake damaged buildings are mostly replaced and in the last few years Lincoln has had some of its highest enrolments ever. Last year it graduated the highest number of graduates in its 147 year history.

Ironically, getting more enrolments than expected has been bad because that doesn't equate to more government funding, which instead continues to decline in real terms. NZ universities receive about *a third* less funding than the OECD average.

The solution, we learned from the Vice Chancellor Grant Edwards yesterday, is that the university is going to have to lose 40 of it's about 700 staff. Presumably those that remain will, once again, need to pick up the slack.

This kind of austerity is squeezing the life out of NZ's universities. The same thing is happening to the science sector. NZ's newly combined Bioeconomy Science Institute also going through redundancies so it can survive on less government funding.

Please remember this at the upcoming election. Investing tax dollars in research and higher education is *good* for the country.

😔

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/590629/lincoln-university-to-cut-40-full-time-equivalent-jobs

https://insidegovernment.co.nz/record-graduation-for-lincoln-university/

#LincolnUniversityNZ #jobcuts #austerity #science #universities #AcademicChatter