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Re: Meryl Streep...The Iron Lady.
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Sunday, December 9 2012, 20:19:20 (UTC)
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Streep is definitely a great actress, but just from the two minute preview that I saw it seemed that the film was glorifying Thatcher. Then I read somewhere that the movie doesn't even cover her brutal crackdown on the miner's strike of the mid-eighties. To my knowledge, the first experiment of Von Hayek/Friedmen's neoliberal economics policies were implemented in post-Allende's Chile, under Pinochet and termed "Economic Miracle". And of course, in less than a decade - in the US, under Reagan; and the UK, under Thatcher - the same anti-union/anti-worker class warfare began with Reagan's firing of the members of the Professional Air Traffic Controller's Union when they went on strike in 1981; and Thatcher's busting up and beating down of the striking members of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1983-'84. Then began the dismantling of what was left of the programs of The New Deal and The Great Society here in the states, and what was left standing of Britain's social democracy. But to be fair, people like Parenti argue that in Carter's last two years he began to roll back on progressive programs and to move to the right of a great part of his constituency, the unions and the working class. I feel that all one has to do is see how the ruling classes in each respective country has done to and is currently doing to other nations and their people to get a glimpse at what is soon coming to a neighborhood near you. As far as the "47%" to which Romney refers, that may be true; but since the 1% have had their taxes lowered drastically by the Conservatives, it leaves the 99% to pay 70% of Social Security and Medicare taxes -- two programs which the 1% have been eyeing to loot, and they probably will due to the so-called fiscal cliff.



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