As the “financial crisis” rumbles
on and on, more and more people are becoming homeless, and in London
alone there has been a 43% increase in “rough sleepers” in the
year to March 2012. This is likely to be an under estimate, as it is
almost impossible to get an accurate figure. Those unfortunate enough
to find themselves homeless, face a multitude of problems, in spite
of this, recent figures show that one in five homeless people have
had their benefits cut or stopped altogether, in the first year of
the government's workfare program. Will this situation be remedied
any time soon?
On Wednesday our millionaire
Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne will make his up-date statement
on the economy, and according to Carl Emmerson, deputy director of
the Institute for Fiscal Studies, “Since the budget, the outlook
for the UK economy has deteriorated and government receipts have
disappointed by even more than this year's weak growth would normally
suggest," so it doesn't bode well for the most vulnerable in
our society. The millionaire cabal of Tories have already annouced
that the “austerity” will have to continue well beyond their
orginal estimate, and could run to 2018. Again this is an estimate
based on pie-in-the-sky figures of growth and guess work from the
banksters who gambled and lost billions, creating this “financil
crisis” in the first place.
"You have to make sacrifices to get the debt down."
So what does the future hold if
your not one of the millionaires? For starters, working longer to get
your pension, which will be buttons, assuming you still have a job to
cling onto. Wage cuts/freezes, or at best a wage increase lower than
inflation, which is in fact a wage cut. Social benefits cut or
eliminated, social spending slashed. More cuts to education, a
privatised health service, an if you are working, it is more likey to
be part-time and low paid. And what for? Does anybody believe that
even if they annouce in 2018 that the financial crisis is over, that
we will all see a dramatic improvement in our living standards? Our
employers will increase our wages above inflation to get us back to
where we were? Our new smiling millionaire government will pour extra
money into education, social spending and re-nationalise the health
service? They will also see that we all have affordable housing, and
homelessness, child poverty, fuel poverty, will all be things of the
past? Dream on my friend, your “austerity” is here as a way for
the future. The UK will be part of that great big European sweatshop
to allow our corporate masters to compete with those Eastern
sweatshops. That is the grand-plan, the deficit reduction is just the
smoke and mirrors. Be warned, organise, take action and resist, or
humbly wallk into their scheme of things.
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