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Are you talking about the budget deficit? It’s not really like a pot you only look into when times are hard since it’s constantly known. I really like your met
by usgroup 4y ago
Are you talking about the budget deficit? It’s not really like a pot you only look into when times are hard since it’s constantly known.
I really like your metaphor, but it is misleading.
- banannaise 4y agoIt's not the budget. It's the hidden cuts to services, the declining maintenance to infrastructure, the privatization of essentials. Those are the licks they take from the pot, while they tell you the pot is still full.
- usgroup 4y agoApologies but what money is spent on in the UK is public information —- it is part of the budget. The fat cat and the hoodwinked mouse is a poor metaphor.
- cassianoleal 4y agoThe pot in the parable is also public information - the mouse could have just opened the lid every now and then to check the levels. It doesn't matter how public it is. It matters whether the public actually knows about it and understands it.
- mhuffman 4y agoExactly! Shrinkflation, wage suppression, union busting, dynamic pricing of medications, etc -- lick, lick, lick! [1]https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3068/cat-and-mouse-in-partnership/ https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3068/cat-a... (edit, this isn't for the UK, but fat cats abound!)
- catsitter 4y agoThe money to pay for those things would have to come from you, the people. They are not taking it away, there is nothing to distribute.
- binbashthefash 4y agoProfit of corporations is the stole surplus value of the workers. And there's been plenty of it