Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.