Reforms!

The word “reform” like the word “flexibility” has been reduced to a euphemism that means “stick it to the workers, stick it to them hard. Make sure they are underpaid, underfed, with no rights and absolutely no security or healthcare or welfare or any thing else ‘wet’ like that!”

However before we are all pushed kicking and screaming into this neoliberal dream (nightmare rather) of Utopia, lets consider this dirty little word, reform.

Indeed, the world is in great need of reforms. But like charity, reform should begin at home. At home being the seats of power and the institutions they exploit.

First of all the IMF. It has turned into Frankenstein’s monster and does not even remotely resemble what it had originally been designed for. Wherever it has gone it has spread catastrophe, pain, disaster and ruined economies and people’s lives. If it can’t be restored to health and sense then it should be completely scrapped. Now a lot of taxpayers’ money would be saved there, now wouldn’t it?

Then the UN, particularly the Security Council. In case you hadn’t noticed ladies and gentlemen wielding power, it has become completely irrelevant, a waste of time and good money, and has in any case already been scrapped de facto by the powers that be.

As for NATO… well what was it originally designed for? The west’s protection against the Communist threat fro Eastern Europe. The only threat from Eastern Europe currently terrorising the European continent is Frau Angela Merkel. And the rest of Europe can do very well without her overbearing arrogant “fixes” designed exclusively to keep kicking the can down the road to preserve herself in power.

That is where reform should start. And if or perhaps when it does (in one way or another) everything else will fall into place.

Remember, the US Founding Fathers knew what they were talking about when they said “Government for the people, by the people, of the people”, remember that one? Perhaps we should. And as soon as possible, otherwise people tend to react in ways these overbearing elites find rather unpleasant.

With anything from Guillotines to firing squads or even the more recent more humane helicopter rescues from government building roofs. Somehow, if real reform is not taken seriously, I fear the humane manner of dealing with these criminals will not be resorted to this time around.