I Love Social Security

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74. Exactly. Same as the third way in the UK acted, which ushered the Tories back to power

And in both cases, the global financiers are given seats at the table to create austerity policies which - no surprise - decimate social programs while pouring more money into their already bulging bank accounts.

Over there, Blair and Brown put a Goldman Sachs/Barclay's executive in charge of a report (task force) about tax and benefit policy.
From the Sourcewatch page on John Martin Taylor(much more there):

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Martin_Taylor

He wrote the ‘Lex’ column in the Financial Times then joined Barclays Bank (with Sir Gerald Mobbs of right-wing think tank Aims of Industry): which provided staff to help run Blair's constituency office. Taylor created a bitter dispute with unions over an effective pay cuts and redundancies imposed on 25,000 employees. As part of the Budget of March 1998 Gordon Brown asked (multimillionaire) Taylor to produce a report looking at options for the reform of the tax and benefit systems, needless to say, it hammered the poor.
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An international advisor at Goldman Sachs and Gen. Sec. of the annual Bilderberg globalist conference, he is now chairman of W H Smith. He joined the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and compiled their 2001 Commission on Public Private Partnerships report which insisted there should be “no ideological barriers to private sector involvement in ‘core’ public services such as clinical and intermediate health care, the management of education and local government services”.


And, yeah, dkf has been absolutely consistent in putting forward these policies favoring the finance barons, which used to be a solely Republican and Tory position and which Third Way, there and here, have been pushing.