There’s a lovely little welfare state in the UK. Armies of people turn up regularly to get their handouts all feeling hard done by and downtrodden. They all have one thing in common, they are there purely through bad luck and through no fault of their own. None of them had any choices in their miserable lives, they were all lions led by donkeys down the road to ruin.
What a pathetic load of old rubbish. Everyone has a choice. Most, however, choose to wallow in their own self pity, blaming everybody and everything but themselves for their problems. A very small number actually get up and do something about those problems then get lambasted by the majority for daring to be successful at what they do. We (almost all of the west) live in a society that rewards laziness and mediocrity while penalising hard work.
The UK government, trying to do something about the appalling welfare state the UK has become, was recently defeated in the House of Lords; that unelected bunch of misfits that every government would love to disband but every opposition fights tooth and nail to retain.
Lets be honest here, the proposed cap of £26000 is about the (official) national average wage. That figure is vastly inflated by the huge wages of people like directors and football players. The real wage of normal people is far below that. At a time when we’re all being asked to tighten our belts, take wage and pension cuts and work longer hours, benefit payments of that magnitude are unforgivable.
Nobody needs to be given (not earned, but handed on a plate) that amount of tax payers money for doing absolutely sod all. It’s a charter for laziness that I can’t, with any honesty, blame people for taking advantage of. Apart from shame, there’s little reason to turn down a greater sum in benefits than you could reasonably expect to earn.
It’s something that has to be sorted out at national level by the government but it needs a little more honesty from opposition MP’s who fight every move the government makes despite acknowledging that they’d have to do pretty much the same themselves if they were managing the asylum.
The current game being played by the politicians, gleefully and blindly followed by their puppet voters, is ‘blame-the-banker’. While there’s a lot that has gone wrong that the bankers can be blamed for, they can with some justification, feel aggrieved at the way the politicians have passed the buck onto them. Who made the rules the financial institutions were following? The politicians make all the rules, they create the playing field that the rest of us have to use and when it all goes wrong, they tell their supporters to blame someone else…and they fall for it every time.
The politicians now, because the public have fallen right into the trap laid for them, are looking for ways to curb private sector wages at higher levels. Their target is, of course, the directors of large corporations. While the wages of some of these people do look ridiculously high they pale into insignificance when compared to the obscene wages the competitors in many sports are paid…football in the UK for instance. What use is sports for pity’s sake? At least the corporations are doing something useful, even if it is just supplying vegetables at inflated prices…that’s still far more use than your average footballer who gets paid exorbitant amounts of money to fall flat on his face every few minutes.
As for me, I’m actually pretty disillusioned with the whole political scene at the moment. I’m ashamed to say I was one of the fools who voted dear Tony in over a decade ago. What a disaster that turned out to be. His replacement was a mess, in more ways than one and the current lot – a coalition of left wing Tory’s kissing Obama’s boots and…what do you call them? Oh yes, Liberal Democrats – something that is neither liberal nor democratic and wears yellow…or blue…or red…depending on which way the wind is blowing… Well, lets just say I currently treat all political parties with equal contempt.
