When looking at how the ordinary people in Europe are being
punished for the sins of their bankers and politicians, it is
difficult to know where to focus. Greece has been in the firing line
to some of the must brutal attacks to the livings standards of any
European country. However a little closer to home is Ireland. Bearing
in mind that Ireland has already been through 4 years of savage cuts
to the conditions of its people, what is in store for them in the
coming year 2012 is frightening. The Irish government has set out
its next hit list and it amounts to 2.2 billion Euros of cuts for
2012. Its targets are the usual working class areas, welfare, health,
education, fuel and rent allowance, disability allowance and student
grants, on top of that lot there is VAT increased to 23%. Public
sector workers are being punished extremely brutally, having seen
their wages cut, by on average, 15%, they now face a two year wage
freeze and the threat of redundancy, as another 6.000 public sector
jobs are set to go. No doubt in the coming months we will be able to
talk about the decimation of the Italian people's living standards,
Spain is well down the road to social disintegration caused by
rampant unemployment and cuts to social spending. We here in the UK
have similar problems with savage cuts and youth unemployment running
at well over 1 million.
The working class of Europe are being sacrificed on the
bankers' alter of greed, what ever actions are taken by the puppet
politicians, it is always to ensure that the banks and bond markets,
the politicians paymasters, don't lose out. This system has nothing
to do with improving the welfare of the people, it is all about
amassing wealth in the accounts of the corporate world and their
greedy shareholders. It is all about holding on to that unearned
wealth and the power that derives from that wealth. The people are of
no consequence, mere pulp that can be used, abused and sacrificed as
the need arises in the game of exploitation.
"Sacrifices have to be made."
Surely lurking somewhere in your mind you can think of an
alternative system, a system that sees to the needs of all our
people, a system that is built on mutual aid and sustainability. It
is not impossible to build such a system, the present system of
capitalism is a man made system of a few hundred years. It is not
something handed done from the gods, written in tablets of stone. It
was people that devised it and it was people that drove it, surely
people can destroy it and build from a foundation of co-operation, a
caring a system that we would be proud to leave to our grandchildren.
Are you proud of the inheritance that we will leave to them under the
present system?
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