Sentences with phrase «austerity budgets while»

A «democracy «where a Democrat for Governor promotes austerity budgets while providing tax cuts to the rich, where the Republicans demand even more money for the rich and an end to the New Deal, and where the Supreme court repeatedly rule in favor of the 1 % to buy our political system under the guise of free speech.

Not exact matches

While this was a fiscally austere budget, it was also pro-business and pro-growth, and I think it struck a pretty good balance between growth and austerity.

While one political side routinely points to massive, European - style budget cuts (known as Austerity) as the answer to our fiscal problems, others have argued that the best way to stimulate the economy is through a balanced approach which includes both cuts and revenue increases.

The NHS budget has actually been ring fenced (don't give them too much credit for this, it's a cynical way of seeming to «protect» more popular or «sexy» areas of spending while providing political cover for the overall austerity programme).

Some small European states such as Latvia, Estonia and Ireland did manage to re-start their economic growth while imposing austerity budgets — but only by ratcheting down their wages and prices, via a big dose of unemployment, until their much - reduced costs sparked an export revival.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

We acted to prevent crisis while others who failed to do so are suffering emergency budgets, deeper austerity and political crisis.

to Gov. Cuomo's plan to give billions of dollars in tax cut giveaways to banks and the wealthiest New Yorkers while schools and communities suffer under austerity budgets and continuing layoffs.

Anticipating the mayor's austerity executive budget that if approved would slash education and social services while leaving the wealth of city banks, corporations and rich New Yorkers untouched, the UFT joined progressive City Council members and a coalition of unions, community groups and nonprofit service providers at City Hall on May 4 to release an alternative «people's budget.»

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).