6th January 2013
Sunday’s newspapers headline with the effect Tory cuts in benefits will have on soldiers, nurses and teachers. Well no real surprise there, it has long been known that the Conservative Party supports business and sees those in the public sectors who protect business, be that directly (soldiers/police), or indirectly through good health (nurses/midwives) or by educating potential and future workforces (teachers) as being easy targets when they need to make cuts. While boardrooms have been giving themselves pay rises, senior managers in the NHS have done likewise and even the MPs put in for a £30,000 plus pay rise, the working man and woman has been punished. Today I heard some-one from the private sector suggest that nurses and the like should not suffer under the benefit curbs but that those who are reluctant to work should be just given vouchers for the basics, bread, milk, some gas or electric but not able to spend these on cigarettes, alcohol or in the bookie. Here here. This is not the first time I have heard this. One does have to wonder if such a move would be the best way forward if Britain is to become Great again. One nurse I was talking to said that if a criminal; on benefits; broke into her house the criminal probably would take pity on her and rather than steal the little she has would give her some money, because she does not have 42” plasma screen TV, Xbox, iphone or any of the other modern gadgets many on benefits appear to have. Yet she works 40 hours a week looking after frail and vulnerable people for a take home of less than £500 a week.
It is all well and good Tories saying that those on benefits must feel the pain but most nurses, teachers, police officers and the like have been feeling the pain for some years now. No pay rise for three years and an increase in the deductions from their wages along with a rise in the cost of living has resulted in all staff at the public sector “coalface” suffering a pay cut. For those who are forced to rely on tax credits and child benefit to maintain any semblance of a decent life after a hard day’s work to have this cut by a government of millionaires and in some case career politicians who do not know what a hard day’s graft is appalling.
It is right that those who do not work should feel the financial pain, arguably they should have felt it last year when they got 5% rise and working people in both public and private sector got nothing or very little. Any attacks on benefits should be targeted at those who are not working. But the politicians tend to wield a Long Sword rather than a Rapier to deal with the problems caused by the financial orks. Brandishing heavy blunder weapons may destroy much of the area it covers but it does not get to the heart of the problem. If the Government wants to sort out the financial mess then it needs to use a scalpel so as to get to the heart without breaking the ribs. Then it can perform heart surgery and the body will recover.
What the Government appears to be ignoring is that the financial orks are only a subspecies of the wider Capitalist Roaming Oligopoly Omnivorous Reptilian Sect. The Crooks; lets call them Greedskins; are a savage, warlike, financially greedy race of androids who are spreading all across the world. They share many features with other capitalists but will destroy them to achieve their omnipotence. They are seen by their enemies (pretty much everyone else in the world) as savage, warlike and greedy, but they are the most successful species in the world, outnumbering possibly every other intelligent race, even humans. However, this massive population of Crooks is split into hundreds of tiny empires, often warring between themselves to gain financial control. It has been speculated that were the Crooks ever to unite as a single financial entity, they would undoubtedly crush any government that would dare to stand against such a tsunami of greed muscle. Luckily, the Crooks enjoy killing each other financially every bit as much as they savour stealing the pecuniary blood of the world’s hardworking peoples.
Whilst it may be time that the Greedskins are brought to heel making the hardworking people of the world suffering the process is wrong. There are plenty of people who contributed to the situation we are in who have to date got off scott free. If a nurse makes a life threatening error he/she can expect to be in front of their regulator. Yet for the many in the financial world who cause the financial meltdown they have got off with no punishment and simply passed the buck down the line to an expendable junior and walked away with massive payouts and pensions. It just goes to show how the morale compass of many of the bank Boardrooms has been broken or lost. Whilst the Mayan prediction for the 21st of December 2012 did not come about, it may be that we all misread the runes. Perhaps it was not the end of the world but we should read their prediction as the end of the world for the Greedskins and the beginning of a new world era for people with a soul and a working morale compass.
Cutting the small amount of extra money paid to soldiers, teachers and nurses to try and stave off a crisis caused by people who earn more in a year than most nurses, teachers and soldiers will earning in their life time is not only wrong but morally unjustifiable, even for millionaire politicians.