ME & AFFORDABILITY.

Were I at all paranoid I would surely believe the rest of the world was ganging up on me! As it is I am told it is only the top 1%, the richest, or, if we include the politicians of this world, maybe 2%, 3% with our civil servants and probably 5% with the bankers.

So, believing the rest to be on the same side as myself, why do I feel so pee’d off and isolated?

We are all (95% of us) getting screwed!!!

 

I might have it figured, or part way so.

I was brought up a set of values, which can be fairly set out quite simply as honesty and hard work do no harm and bring their own rewards. A tenet I have tried to follow all my life, probably with a hiccup here and there along the way, but I have never taken anything that had not been given, and spent not a penny that had not been earned. All that I have borrowed was no more than I could afford to repay, and that has been done with interest.

This has all been managed with one thought, one rule, if you like, the consideration of affordability!

Can I afford it?

That is the one simple question that has been forgotten by all those so clever ‘top o’ the pile’ high so’s!

The simple matter of affordability!

“Can I afford it?”

“Can my company afford it?”

“Can my organisation afford it?”

“Can my country afford it?”

“Can those I work for afford it?”

“Can those I represent afford it?”

“Can the ordinary folk afford it?”

No one up there is asking these questions, so no one is listening when we all say 

“NO WE CANNOT!”

We now have so many helping themselves to our scant incomes we are truly lucky to have any left for ourselves.

There is the local council, the county council, national government, the European Parliament, the European Commission, (and probably a few more I have missed!) all spawning committees and quangos like there was no tomorrow, all passing wonderful new laws that will cost us even more to implement, and getting fat on the expense accounts we cannot afford, while we at the bottom are out in the cold, losing our voices in protest because, let’s face it we ain’t got much else to lose!

Had I foreseen my current situation I would not have worked quite so hard, nor would I have saved the little I did had I known that some smirking banker was going to lose the lot!

I also would never have tried so hard to provide myself with a small extra pension had I seen it disappearing bit by bit, and also having to pay income tax on the little left to bail out not only our precious bankers but good half dozen or so countries as well!  

I would say enough is enough, but I know, as do most of you, that enough is never enough in this day and age!

Have you noticed how the big boys have ganged up on the little ones in Euro land? It was Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece all at fault? A whole lot of bullying there! Now Italy, somehow i cannot see a lot of bullying happening there, and, dare I say it? I have heard that the mighty France has more than a smidgen of housekeeping to take care of. I cannot help but wonder if Mr. So-cosy will get the now famous proverbial haircut?

And, one final note......I do not remember any of the euro states offering to help when the UK got into difficulty while in the euro, so I personally feel Mr. Sarcastic would be well advised to keep his remarks to himself in regard to the British Government. Please!

The Euro zone has become an exclusive club that only the big boys should join, minnows cannot afford the fees!

So....get out and stay out! At least until you have the bank balance!