Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: Time has been called.
This is an article that i wrote for my Newsvine Column. Hope you like it.
Most of us are caught up in this mess through no fault of our own. This is the real tragedy.
Many have lost their savings, and those who still have savings are seeing the interest on them drastically reduced.
Many British Pensioners rely on their savings to help them live. So they will supplement the meagre Old Age State Pension, that our government, in it's wisdom, says is the "amount you need to live on".
We are angry, and feel so let down. Let down by the banks, the government, and, yes, even let down to a degree by our fellow citizens because of them getting their finances (aided and abetted by Banksters, naturally), into such a mess.
Let down by the big Companies who delighted in ripping us off at the first chance, some of which is still going on, the Utility Companies a Prime Example here.
The ordinary man or woman in the street, has worked and has been treated like dirt by their Employers over the years. Minimum wage? You've got to be joking right?
Oh, you're not, so you expect me to go out and work a full forty hour week for £5.75 per hour, is that it?
Then, on top, there is the cost of my travel to work, the meals I need to buy whilst at work, the extra clothes I will need, after all, you would not expect me to turn up wearing the same shirt/skirt/trousers. every day, would you?
Sod it, I'm "better off" on benefits. At least I do not have to get out of bed early mornings, my time is my own, which I can spend doing something that I want to do, and not something I will know that I will hate for all those hours, just to help make you rich.
Am I angry? No, not now, I was when I was younger and still working, now that I have retired (it'll be four years this year), I can just about afford to look at what is happening from an Outsiders viewpoint.
I had/have, no savings worth speaking of, I have been so used to living "hand to mouth", and buying stuff from markets and Charity Shops, that it doesn't make no difference to me.
I knew that we were heading for a "fall" when those property prices rocketed, they were totally unsustainable, and I was proved right.
I don't feel smug or pleased that this has happened, I just knew that it was inevitable that it would.
You cannot build any economy on debt, either a personal one, or a National/International one.
Sooner or later, those debts will be called in, and now we are just merely seeing the result of those debts being called.
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