Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian: on Nostr: I remember at the beginning of the 80s and the sudden restrictions in services ...
I remember at the beginning of the 80s and the sudden restrictions in services everywhere on the planet. The Thatcher era went all over, we had cuts and incentives for the rich while the poor got poorer. We saw new types of taxes on goods in the mid 80s that keep on rising as the years go by, with more and more products getting taxed at the cash register.
Then we had what they called austérité here at the beginning of the 2010s. They increased student debts by hiking tuition fees. They cut further in help programs, etc. These things marked me a lot. I could see they're spending as long as it went into the government's friends' pockets but us people were more and more put under pressure and the prices of everything went up, we couldn't afford as much as before.
Then there was COVID and the aftermath of the pandemic, with increases in food and everything else.
When I see stuff like this, like USAID, and the equivalent in Canada where TroonD'OH and his pals have now taken offline the numbers and the targets of their spending (I do remember Tranada educating some country in Africa in toilet use, instead of shitting on the beach, and sending that country some money to buy toilets or whatever it was) so we can't get angry about it, I get so bloody nervous because some dumbass like Poilievre, the conservative guy here who will surely become the next government, will cut everywhere (he did talk about cutting old people's pensions) claiming the previous government put us all in the red. I'm hanging on as I can but that right-wing fucker is probably going to cut my rope.
Mind you, another run in the Liberal merry-go-round is not an option either...
Then we had what they called austérité here at the beginning of the 2010s. They increased student debts by hiking tuition fees. They cut further in help programs, etc. These things marked me a lot. I could see they're spending as long as it went into the government's friends' pockets but us people were more and more put under pressure and the prices of everything went up, we couldn't afford as much as before.
Then there was COVID and the aftermath of the pandemic, with increases in food and everything else.
When I see stuff like this, like USAID, and the equivalent in Canada where TroonD'OH and his pals have now taken offline the numbers and the targets of their spending (I do remember Tranada educating some country in Africa in toilet use, instead of shitting on the beach, and sending that country some money to buy toilets or whatever it was) so we can't get angry about it, I get so bloody nervous because some dumbass like Poilievre, the conservative guy here who will surely become the next government, will cut everywhere (he did talk about cutting old people's pensions) claiming the previous government put us all in the red. I'm hanging on as I can but that right-wing fucker is probably going to cut my rope.
Mind you, another run in the Liberal merry-go-round is not an option either...