Back to the drawing board

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Wed, 2012-04-25 11:30

We're officially back in recession, and only tetchy scheming has stopped the ship from plunging into depression over the last few years.
After the loony postage increase and forlorn fuel scare, scraping the barrel of deceit to the depths of degradation, isn't it time that our Etonian govt started demanding profits from the ultra-rich, who service the govt with PFIs that return 70% A YEAR to investors. They'll be going to The Money Shop and Wonga next.
With privatisation spent and nothing left to sell apart from their shady selves, ministers and lords hide and cower behind the rich like naughty little children, scared to confront them in case they abandon them, isn't it about time that sense prevailed and the rich paid back a portion of their loan-shark monies. They stole it from you and I with the permission of your govt.

We are in this together..., aren't we?

Wed, 2012-04-25 13:48

lavadis

Well I often think we are like penguins - huddling together against the chill winds but in essence, alone, without substantive communication. We cannot storm the castle because we don't know where it is.

Wed, 2012-04-25 13:59

blighters rock

That's a great analogy, Laurie. I wouldn't want to storm any houses (but A Clockwork Orange immediately springs to mind!) It would be amazing if the rich took it upon themselves to pay back what they've hoarded so that the world could correct itself without the degradation of social cleansing and economic apartheid, but I just can't see it. They seem to have one thing on their minds, and it's exactly the same as the govt; divide and rule. To what end, though? To conquer its own? Now that the working classes have built everything, of what purpose are we now to them?

Wed, 2012-04-25 15:36

lavadis

I think that perhaps the more relevant question is - are they happy? If not, what is the point of their behaviour. You can only live in one house at once, drive one car, eat one meal. Greed is not an ingredient in the recipe for contentment. Wealth is not an antidote for death. They are doing it because they can and we are not stopping them because the consumer has subtly become the means of production but they are doing no more than we are, running round our little wheel in our cage looking out at giants.

Wed, 2012-04-25 22:57

blighters rock

Money makes money makes people act funny, but the matter of returning it for the sake of the country is more of a moral question. If the rich were left to decide whether to give it back or not (and we're only talking about their profits from last year, which would wipe the national debt) on the basis that it might make them more content, I'm quite sure they'd take offence and tell us where to go. The issue is purely a moral one, like that posed in France by people who are voting with their hearts. Unlike here, the French say what they mean and mean what they say. As for the Guardian's statistics, I'm surprised the top 200 slime-wipes pay tax at all, so to know that a fair few are paying the same as cleaners and dustmen comes as a relief. How pathetic a pre-conception is that, and what does it say for our collective spirit as a nation when I know I'm not at all alone?

Thu, 2012-04-26 08:11

lailoken

Didn’t you know that it’s all going to plan, according to Game Theory and Neo-Darwinism. We must embrace our inherent selfishness, in order to create a better world for everyone. Well, either that, or to make sure we have no long-term future. Here’s to capitalist economies self-regulating themselves, so that politicians don’t have anything to do but pander the rich.

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