5 Quotes by Linda McQuaig

Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources other than their daily labour and, consequently, be always near indigence'. As long as working man was near indigence, hunger would remain an effective tool to goad him to labour. Bentham argued that an important task of government was to ensure conditions of deprivation, thereby guaranteeing that hunger would [be a constant motivation to work].

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

Even before winning its majority, Harper’s Republican-styl e Conservative party – well to the right Canada’s traditional Progressive Conservative Party – managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.