Austerity is the tool being used for the great levelling of the western world. Plenty of money to fund wars, finance military R&D, bail out banks with taxpayer money, but no cash for social services. It's all a lie. One big robbery.

What amazes me, in the U.S., is how Obama ran on an austerity platform his first time around, yet people thought he would give them more. It's really as if his followers confused the word "austerity" with "prosperity." The government-run media is still comparing him to FDR and LBJ, the architects of our social safety net, while he, Obama, was the first president to put entitlements on the table in fiscal negotiations. He has begun the carving up of Social Security and Medicaire.

Austerity is just a way the rich get richer. Obama's just a banker's boy. He's taking a 4 million dollar vacation right now, too. His contribution to the austerity movement.