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A potted history of museums in the Potteries Part 4 -
In the early years of the 21st century there was an optimistic sense that years of hard work securing external recognition and investment for Stoke-on-Trent’s museums was bearing fruit.
#Stoke-on-Trent #Museums #cuts
In the early years of the 21st century there was an optimistic sense that years of hard work securing external recognition and investment for Stoke-on-Trent’s museums was bearing fruit.
#Stoke-on-Trent #Museums #cuts
But storm clouds were gathering. Constant Council restructuring saw the museum service move from Museums, Arts & Heritage Department into Leisure and Cultural Services, then Regeneration & Heritage. The service remained at divisional level, headed by an Assistant Director.
In the meantime, there were significant developments on the wider museum front. In 2001, after much lobbying, in particular from the Group for Large Local Authority Museums, Resource (the Museums, Libraries & Archives Commission) published its Renaissance in the Regions report.
"Neoliberalism sees competition as the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers, whose democratic choices are best exercised by buying & selling. . . Attempts to limit competition are treated as attacks on liberty." 1/ .. #cdnpoli #cdnecon
"In the opinion of neoliberals, tax & regulation should be minimized, public services privatized. Unions & collective bargaining are market distortions that impede the natural hierarchy of winners & losers. Inequality is recast a reward for generators of wealth" #cdnpoli #cdnecon
Ed Finn: "Neoliberals view efforts to create a more equal society as both counterproductive & morally corrosive. The market (left free and unregulated) ensures that everyone gets what they deserve." 3/ .. behindthenumbers.ca/2016/05/11/wha… #cdnpoli #cdnecon
How @realDonaldTrump plans to stop the spending of the $1,000,000,000,000 #Omnibus #4Dchess #Timeless 1/ 
What if @potus could send spending cuts he wants to be voted on to Congress? What if those cuts could be passed with a simple majority in the House and Senate?
Meet what is called a #rescissionbill
Meet what is called a #rescissionbill
The Rescission Bill was last invoked in 2000 by President Bill Clinton.
Since 1974, ##cuts were submitted 1178 times and approved by Congress 461 times.
Why did something that was such a common practice become obsolete?!
Since 1974, ##cuts were submitted 1178 times and approved by Congress 461 times.
Why did something that was such a common practice become obsolete?!
