Utilizing concepts from Pierre Bourdieu I argue that the implementation of financial literacy education in Ontario public schools will, if uncontested, support a neoliberal consumer habitus (subjectivity) at the expense of the critical citizen. This internalization of the neoliberal ethos assists state efforts to shift responsibility for socially-created economic risk to the individual. The financial literacy texts that are currently available occlude this and instead encourage the individual to link his or her financial well-being more closely to the performance of the financialized capitalist system. The resulting increased alienation from our further integration works with the resources and fields that are linked to the financial literacy initiative to discourage individuals "qua" consumers from mobilizing or understanding the need to mobilize public resources to collectively mitigate post-Fordist risk effects and, more radically, to abolish capitalism. As an alternative to the Ontario financial literacy initiative I posit some suggestions on how financial literacy could be reformulated to support a citizen with a radical habitus who could question and possibly resist further neoliberalization within and outside the field of education. (Contains 13 footnotes.)