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Macron austerity

jeudi 27 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Macron's first act of austerity is to cut housing benefits for poor people.

Pseudo-public spaces

jeudi 27 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Pseudo-public spaces appear to be squares or parks, but they are private property ruled by private whim.

I expect that journalism and protests are first things likely to be banned.

Denying welfare support

jeudi 27 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The UK has a vicious law that denies welfare support for a family's third and subsequent children. Now this is to be applied in Northern Ireland, where abortion is banned under criminal penalties.

To punish the children of large families by keeping them in poverty is evidently unjust, because they are not responsible for their birth. Furthermore, it tends to stunt their physical and mental development in such a way that it is difficult for them ever to get out of poverty.

If the UK government wants to discourage poor women from having more than two children, it should do so by giving them birth control and abortion gratis.

Dontcare bill

jeudi 27 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Senator McCain's cancer casts light on how the Dontcare bill would hurt Americans less well off than he.

Right wing agitators

jeudi 27 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Right wing agitators are calling on their followers to kill Americans that disagree with them.