My question is the politicians are quick to make cuts.. but have they cut thier own salaries and expenses to save money?? Allan
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Noel Gallagher (Oasis) declared his shame over the recent riots in > Manchester. "Hardly the French Revolution" more about "Give us > sportswear" - almost a song. Noel says he always wondered when the > public would tumble to him not being very good as he and his brother > rose to stardom. They were working class, the lowest of the low, but > there's now another,lower class. Labour (our Democrats) is feeble, > the Tories (our Tea Party somewhat disguised) are scum and there's no > point in politics. > > Our coalition government is bleating at the moment that their cuts > have not made things worse, but better. Many still believe this > austerity guff, though it makes no economic sense - the problem is > debt, but this debt can't be cured by belt-tightening and saving for > better days. Noel is as right as any pundit. > > We have a number of side-shows including what is now hinted at as a > bum-boy relationship on trips abroad, letting his 'friend' stay rent > free in his second home (paid for by us) and advancing his 'mate' in a > number of ways. The minister concerned is married, but so was McArthy > etc. The issue is less one of rent-boy Toryism but that of a shadow > arms' trade, though it's the former that will probably bring the > minister down. > > Unemployment and under-employment are massive - well beyond official > figures. Our middle-classes and intelligentsia have no solutions and > haven't been concerned to find any in the main - they get paid and > think only in I'm All Right Jack terms. > > Revolution in terms of honest policies and a leveling of unearned > privilege turns any country doing it into a glass house with its > people undressing with the lights off. No clever economic talk is > really clever and the mainstream drivel cannot be taught by anyone > honest (but it is taught). The levels of duplicity are nowhere more > evident than in "communist" China, where housing is often squalid and > 13 Ghost cities are built and empty. Get your head round being a > 'commie boss' and that one! > > In the UK we are worried that the EU has traduced our democracy - yet > we aren't as concerned about banksterism. We are effectively a > peasantry faced by robber barons. Our Peasants' Revolt (Wat Tyler) > failed. You didn't really have one in the US against British colonial > (via "business") rule either. The big ones in Europe broadly failed > too. The 'soviets' never came about and the dream became > dictatorship. We ended-up in imperialist wars, fought (whatever we are > still told) with bankster money and over trading 'rights'. In my > worst case scenario this is in so deep I have Churchill as a bag man > for JP Morgan along with Blair. Any lack of evidence is either way in > such conspiracy - the idea that the Allies were goody-two-shoes > pales. The British Empire and European dominance fell and the > American Empire rose. The French are as disgusting as the rest of the > developed world despite a "revolution" - so perhaps revolutions are > not what we think? > > In one WB Yeates poem there is no revolution, just beggars on > horseback exchanging places with beggars on foot. Do we need a new > concept of revolution before we start? Everything I know about > organisational change suggests we do. > > > > -- ( ) |_D Allan Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
