So what I'm actually trying to do is save
standards from the austerity hawks and from the chest - thumpers, as well as the people who are the haters of public education.
The task of rhetoric is to divert attention
from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to
austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living
standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.