{"id":393785,"date":"2019-01-22T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/discipline-will-remainor-will-it\/"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:51:02","slug":"discipline-will-remainor-will-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/discipline-will-remainor-will-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline Will Remain\u2026or Will It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last October, Philip Hammond, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the annual federal budget speech to the UK Parliament, said this: \u201cAusterity is coming to an end, but discipline will remain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk about Orwellian doublespeak. The truth about austerity is that it is a means of social control, or as Hammond put it, discipline. Hammond\u2019s recent comment is completely illogical. Austerity is economic discipline. Really, it\u2019s just a way of making the poor suffer more, while continuing to bail out the rich every time they implode the economy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rare that the titans of finance slip up <em>so well<\/em>, and so egregiously with their language, but it happens, this being an excellent case study. Now we know, straight from the source, just what economic experts, being mouthpieces of multinational corporations, really want, just as much or even more than \u201causterity\u201d: discipline! Or, another way of putting it, they want austerity, except we aren\u2019t supposed to realize that we live in austerity anymore\u2026or at least don\u2019t try and resist. These people want a normalization of austerity, until we just accept that <em>this is the way it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A cursory look at the upcoming UK budget shows more of the same: billions to update the nuclear weapon systems, continued cuts for many government ministries, cuts to Scotland when considering inflation rates, a cap on total welfare spending, with a few crumbs for their Universal Credit benefits, etc. All of this is happening while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/01\/discipline-will-remainor-will-it\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, Philip Hammond, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the annual federal budget speech to the UK Parliament, said this: \u201cAusterity is coming to an end, but discipline will remain.\u201d Talk about Orwellian doublespeak. The truth about austerity is that it is a means of social control, or as Hammond put it, discipline. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}