I am stunned that so many of the moronic voting public appear to hold the following views:
1. That there is a economic problem and that there needs to be a solution.
2. That the problem with any solution is that 'they' shouldn't have to suffer.
3. That the present government are the source of all the financial problems we are facing.
How on earth we can write off the, "There will never be a boom and bust' Labour mismanagement of the past few years and forget the PFI, 'help a friend (or friend's company)', 'New labour' minimal investment - maximum wasting of money and all the other excesses that were and lump it on the coalition government - leaves me breathless at just how stupid the electorate are.
That they can see that at the election, despite the old tosh being bandied by whichever Milliband it was that stuffed the other one and now runs the labour Party, this country was on the brink of financial meltdown and we faced something similar to Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and yet expect everyone else to have to endure hardship speaks volumes of the selfish (and stupid) nation that we have become.
That people can ring in and demand for areas that don't affect them to be cut so they can continue, and moan about the prospects of higher interest rates for their mortgages and loans that enable them to live, in a world where house prices continue to rise and they can have more, just provides the final straw for the camel. One 'nice' lady (i'm sure she is) was saying that she shouldn't have to see her living standards suffer and that there was plenty of slack in the social services, health and the like to avoid her having to pay the price for others!
Yes, of course there is!!!!
Let's get rid of [insert area that doesn't affect you], now!
Pax
"Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." Psalm 82:3-4
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It's strange how short are people's memories. We voted for a government of change, and change is what we got, if not exactly what we voted for.
I am an advocated of a solution to the financial crisis, but just wonder how much the government has considered the impact on the more vulnerable elements of society, and I don't mean me.
Cuts are necessary, but they appear to impact much harder on those with the least, perhaps on the principle of 'the less you have, the more we will take'.
If someone owns their home and has a mortgage, two cars and two or more wage earners, they are not vulnerable, but the media seems to spend their time talking about how the middle classes are being squeezed, while sneering at those who are without a job as feckless or workshy, or unable to work through genuine disability as being committed benefit fraudsters.
I note that the widely hyped 5 million benefit fraudsters quoted by George Osborne last year has in fact been proven on official government figures just published to be an estimated 1.2 million. And that is 'back of fag packet stuff'.
I'm on a pension, my wife is working and we are comfortable. We help by giving what we can afford and more practically where we can. It just seems that there are so many selfish, self-regarding people at the moment, who wear blinkers when it does not involve them or their standard of living or home comforts.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel quite strongly about these issues.
We wouldn't need to go on such a cutting spree if half the banks in the country hadn't collapsed due to dodgy dealing...
The amazing belief that things go up and your home is really just a means of making a profit!
Bankers and legislators combined to fuel a society fixed on greed, personal gain and self - a recipe for disaster.
Pax
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