A two-income family today is poorer than a one-income family was in the 1970s

[Peaceful Protester]

36. Privatization and Deregulation

Some people blame Bush for the state of the union, but Bush was actually a good president in that he sought to bring Republican policies to fruition. The problem was not in the execution of these policies, but the actual policies themselves; Republican policies have produced a Global War AND a Global Recession! Yet, Republicans accuse Democrats of not fixing these global messes "fast" enough!

For the Conservatives, this is not a financial crisis but a long-awaited opportunity

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Public bodies whose purpose is to hold corporations to account are being swept away. Public bodies whose purpose is to help boost corporate profits, regardless of the consequences for people and the environment, have sailed through unharmed.

The Shock Doctrine

In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein shows how disaster capitalism was conceived by the extreme neoliberals at the University of Chicago. These people believed that the public sphere should be eliminated, that business should be free to do as it wants, and almost all tax and social spending should be stopped.