Osna.FMThe Sozialverband Deutschland (SoVD) has sharply criticized the recently released draft for the long-term care law, deeming it primarily a "cutback law". Accord... https://news.osna.fm/?p=49251 | #news #austerity #bill #care #critique
The personnel council of the Federal Chancellery has issued a warning regarding the potential consequences of the planned staff reductions within the federal ad... https://news.osna.fm/?p=49236 | #news #against #austerity #bureaucratic #civil
bignosebut surely by denying them financial security, housing security, health care, and basic pleasures, we are incentivising them to stop being poor. if we let them have nice things how will they be motivated to make something of themselves @broadwaybabyto
#Neoliberal #Austerity #FuckYouIveGotMine #BlameTheVictim #MeritocracyMyth #TINA
DB 🌱💦Canada, and the entire capitalist West is in the final stage of that ravenous economic system we call capitalism. Unable to expand or sustain past profits, it’s now consuming public institutions and key social systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term shareholder gain.
Janne M. KorhonenThe latest Finnish opinion leader to break ranks on all-but-one party consensus about #austerity "#debt brake" is... the Finnish #Defence Forces.
They want *double* the budget.
In this #polycrisis, austerity is like trying to open a knot by pulling the strings tighter.
www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
Maanpuolustus | Puolustusvoima...
Maanpuolustus | Puolustusvoima...
Richard Michael Blaberhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/02/uk-right-bond-markets-instability-austerity-populism. "Stability can also be defined in many ways the #financial #markets don’t think about much... #social [&] #climate #stability, consistency in the provision of #publicservices, #cohesion between the #nations of the #UK... #faith in #democracy itself. By all these measures, the market-pleasing #austerity #policies often followed by #British #governments since 2010 have produced not stability but the opposite." Comment, @ChrisMayLA6?
Despite what the UK right will tell you, appeasing bond markets has actually led to instability
Austerity has benefitted bond traders but impoverished UK society and led to the rise of populism. Is it right that we carry on adhering to their interests, asks Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
EPSUBREAKING 🚨🚨
#Austerity for people. Tax breaks for business.
The European Commission is cutting tax worth up to €7 billion a year for companies.
Instead of adressing #PublicServicesEmergency, the Commission hands another silver platter to the business with Tax Omnibus.
🍃Carkner🥺well done, Trudeau government, Carney government, Eby government, Legault government, Ford government, Smith government... 🙄
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/economics/2026/06/01/nearly-all-canadian-universities-fall-in-global-rankings/
Nearly all Canadian universities fall in global rankings
Nearly all Canadian universities dropped in the latest CWUR Global 2000 rankings as research performance weakened amid tougher global competition. The rankings also show growing gains by Chinese universities while U.S. schools continue to dominate the top tier.
Jacobin [Unofficial]The Trumpian "War on Fraud" Is a Trojan Horse for Austerity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://jacobin.com/2026/05/state-financial-officers-fraud-austerity
RaymondPierreL3The author makes an argument for slow paced reform of the housing market here, but only if all other economic matters remains the same, so take it with a grain of salt.
Aside from that, there is a defence of RBA policies (largely debunked by progressive economists - Greg Jericho and Prof Richard Murphy come to mind) and pick up on the RBA blame game by criticising Govt spending (social services cost money don't you know?).
In the final analysis, our economy is run by #NeoLiberals following a completely debunked #TrickleDown paradigm and a compulsion to #DeregulateMarkets (because markets know best, right?).
The essential fact to take away is that #Neoclassical economics (aka NeoLiberal Economic theory) equals #Austerity but not for all. Hence it is inherently inequitable. The author also points to #Howard's folly, the mum & dad bank, as an electoral threat limiting govt policies but does not criticise the premisse of this very bad idea.
One thing I agree with author on is that the Australian govt budget relies too heavily on wage and salary taxes, which you would expect in a climate dominated by #unfetteredCapitalism. Who else are going to pay for all the #billionaires
https://news.thenewdaily.com.au/c/1L2AldzRjPZS8f9V7h5TVfIO1ZQd
