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I lost my job this morning.
 
Piss poor management has driven away the last of our trade. And who takes the rap?
 
The hourly staff. We get fucked. We get made redundant.
 
 
Whos fault is it? Is it the customers who don't want to pay for meals out? Do I blame incompetant forign managers? Is it the immigrants?
 
I blame greed.
 
The recession that has engulfed the economics of the Western World. And the Communist totalitarian states.
 
And what has happened to LET the world get so fucked up financially?
 
I'll tell you. American banks in the poorer states lent to poor people who couldn't afford to take the loans. All the other banks were doing it. They couldn't make less than their rivals. 
 
They sold the debt on, then the debt got sold on and on until it was spread through the financial world. They knew the debt was 'bad debt' and people would go bankrupt. But they still hoped to make money off it. And they spread the responcibility through the finacial sector so it seemed low risk - the financial world was far too stable to fall from this.
 
Well it fell. Half the planet is in recession.
 
Its us. The workers. Those who made these Empires of money, for the snakes in the ivory towers. WE suffer. The rich get to keep their million dollar bonuses.
 
The devide grows between rich and poor.
 
Upheavals in Greece. Anarchism and Nhilism growing in popularity.
 
The young generation pissed off at their parents for creating the world that we're in.
 
The poor angry against the rich.
 
 
 
 
Is a revolution coming?


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  • uniquely-ironic said on Jan 20, 2009....
    Quite possibly and I feel sorry for those who have made their fortunes on the backs of the poor.
  • seer said on Jan 20, 2009....
    I'm poor but my concience is clear.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jan 20, 2009....
    the concience of the poor is often much clearer than those who profit from another man's labor
  • seer said on Jan 20, 2009....

    Its so ironic.

     

    I paid 20% of my income for the past 9 years in tax and Ni to the governement, to pay for benefits (our version of the welfare state).

     

    I'm entitled to £47.50 per week. That's about £55 dollars. I've been paying DOUBLE that.

    Society has failed me. Why should I care about it?

  • uniquely-ironic said on Jan 20, 2009....
    there's no rule that says you have to care, only one that says you must pay.  I just filed my tax returns, and if the government doesn't find a way to keep it from me my refund will help me pay for some very neccesary expenses.  I pay on average 20% of my gross pay also and my social security payout at this point is theorhetically more than I actually bring home.
  • seer said on Jan 20, 2009....
    yeah.
     
     
    Over here its 20% tax on the poor, then you pay 17.5% on everything (VAT), cars need Road Tax (average of £200 per annum), MOT (Mildly obvious tax - Ministry of Transport Test, huge tax on booze and tabacco, petrol is mostly tax too. Then there is council tax, fucking everything.
     
    If you work it out, the average poor Brit pays 50% in tax.
     
    Those at the head of the goverment are millionaires. In a SOCIALIST government. Pathetic.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jan 20, 2009....
    Unfortunately it's that way everywhere.  Best you can hope for is to figure out if there are any loopholes that you can use ;)
  • seer said on Jan 20, 2009....

    Lol well I'm on the bounceback.

    I got a job selling newspaper subscriptions, and I'm interviewing for a leaflet distribution company.

    Its wank. Like doing a paper round again.

     

    But hey its more money than I was on as a chef!

  • PieterOpie said on Jan 22, 2009....
    Unregulated and unfettered capitalism inevitably leads to excessive greed for money and in turn excessive power.  Those who manage to beat the competition in such an environment become richer and stronger and those people end up running the show and the lives of the people who depend on them for jobs and their living.  How can this be good when it relies entirely on the morality of the rich and powerful.  Those who own the business set the rules.  They decide who is redundant or useful, and to them - not the nation or themselves.

    This system of free enterprise has evolved into the complex society you now live in.  Obviously I generalise and over-simplify but that is basically the way it is.  Since birth you have been told that this is the best system on earth and that you are all free.  However you are not free to reject the system or you will starve.   If you are relatively poor (compared to the mogul billionaires and ruling classes) then you are an economic slave trapped by your own materialism and small time need for gadgets and prestige.  Thank god for credit!!!!!   Hail to the Capitalists for making it easier to indulge all your ridiculous expectations and live on debt.  Fuck the future... fuck everything - including the environment and the very lives of your descendants. 

    The Soviets used to rule by means of fear and violence.  In America they use seduction, the desire for pretty toys and the illusion of freedom.  I guess it is better than rotting in some Siberian prison camp but both are methods to control the masses so that the evil greedy bastards in charge have your cooperation.

    As long as you serve them for whatever "reward" then fine.  As soon as things change you are an unwanted piece of crap.  Fuck off and die.....

    Even those who worked hard to beat the bastards and set up a small business are now in trouble.  Not because you failed but because of the greed of those far wealthier and infinitely more powerful.

    They became so fucking greedy it has resulted in the sharks beginning to devour each other and themselves - poetic huh?

    The entire thing has collapsed and you - the worker, the bonded slave still believe in the system.  You would probably do it all exactly the same way and let the bosses screw you all over again as long as you could buy a new gigantic size plasma HD television and all the cool bits and pieces to match......

    SUCKERS!!!!!   Remember - they taught you all this was right and that the other systems were wrong and evil.  They lied. 

    Socialism can work but not as long as greed is allowed to corrupt as much as it does in any system.  However it is better than expecting each and every person to survive in the uncontrolled jungle owned by the ultra-rich. 

    It is the stuff of revolution.  Then the whole thing starts all over anew as in China.  Once more the rich are taking ownership of the land and the workers. We need to curb human greed.  it is the basic flaw in any and all systems.  None can serve us well as long as greed and corruption are possible.  We need to find a way to construct a way so that those two fundamental evils cannot take hold and spread.  It means never giving in to it.  Never tolerating it.  Perhaps it is money itself which needs  to be reassessed.  The way we reward work and how we pay for goods and services.  The world needs a new way of thinking.


    THIS I BELIEVE...... so blow it out your arse!!!!!   HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
  • PieterOpie said on Jan 22, 2009....
    P.S.   I am truly sorry about your job. 

    Fuck them!!!!  DEATH TO GREED!!!

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