Carney’s finance minister has been promising to deliver “generational investments” in this budget — but at the same time, Carney has warned that his plan to transform the economy will involve “sacrifices.” These investments and sacrifices are distributed according to a peculiar logic.
For example: Carney has been publicly wringing his hands over the $10 million he claims Canada Post “loses” every day. In their analysis of that framing,The Breach pointed out that this number (an unusually high estimate) is tiny compared to the $169 million the military spends daily. That hasn’t stopped Carney from slashing the postal service’s activities, all while promising an extra $9.3 billion to the country’s armed forces by March.
Here we go again with Austerity.
Us millenials had “austerity measures” since two thousand fucking eight. What the fuck else do they want to cut? There’s nothing left!
God damn bean counters and corporatists have fucked up any chance this generation or the next will ever have at any sort of normal life or any form of progress. I’m this fucking close 🤏 to joining the communist party and starting an armed revolution. Fuck’s sake. I’m so fucking tired.
The ultimate form is basically what the US has done / is doing: Sell off everything to corporate interests and wash their hands of it.
The material conditions are certainly evolving in that direction.