Running the military's technology innovation lab in
the middle of the austerity era is no easy task.
Not exact matches
(I'm certainly not inclined to give the U.K. Conservatives extra credit because they followed their instincts and imposed
austerity in the
middle of a recession.)
On housing and social care, the effect
of austerity has now seeped into the lives
of the
middle class.
It would cost hundreds
of thousands
of predominantly working and lower -
middle class jobs, it would devastate investment, it would sabotage British public finances, and trigger a prolonged period
of crushing
austerity.
A faction
of the Republican Party is pushing
austerity budgets, including cuts to social programs that are popular with the
middle class, such as Social Security (government - funded retirement pension) and Medicare (government - funded retirement health insurance).
«The Tories are hoping that the British people can be kept in the dark about what the tax increases they are planning will mean for those on
middle and low incomes, who have had to bear the brunt
of seven years
of austerity.
Many
of them are ambiguous on Brexit - not keen on it, but not keen on the EU either, and repelled by the fervent anti-Brexit militancy
of middle class pundits they feel did little to combat
austerity.
But this is a man who has won twice in a Labour - leaning city, once in the
middle of a period
of austerity overseen by a Tory PM and Chancellor.
At the end
of the day, growing inequality and
austerity is hurting everyone on low and
middle incomes.