Are we getting angry? Workfare, where
thousands of people are forced to work for multinationals and receive
no pay. Are we getting angry? ATOS, in its quest to make money from
ticking boxes has seen almost two thousand disabled people it claimed
were fit for work, die within moths of their decision. Are we
getting angry? The governments “bedroom tax” is threatening to
break up families, force homes into debt, and have the threat of
eviction hanging over the heads vulnerable people. Are we getting
angry? The six big energy companies are making billions of pounds
and are increasing their prices this winter, while there are almost 4
million people in the UK living in fuel poverty. Are we getting
angry? 4 million children in the UK, one in every three, are living
in poverty, this is the highest of any developed industrial nation in the world.
Some districts in this country have a much higher rate, with
Springburn in the north of Glasgow topping the league with a criminal
rate of 52% of children living in poverty. Are we getting angry? Zero
hours contracts are growing like weeds in an unkempt garden. Meaning
you are employed but have no guarantee of hours, so no idea how much
you will earn. You sit with your phone handy, hoping your boss will
phone and offer you a few hours work, but you are off the unemployed
figures. Are we getting angry? Here in the UK, average wages have, in
real terms, fallen by approximately 10% since 2008, while the gap
between rich and poor gets wider by the month. Are we getting angry?
While ordinary families are squeezed by “austerity measures”
meaning lower incomes and rising prices, the number of millionaire
households in the UK grew by 98,000 in 2012. Whose recession? Are we
getting angry? We are being driven to the deprivation of the Victorian
era, by our lords and masters, as they plunder our public assets, Royal Mail etc., as
gifts to their friends in the financial/corporate Mafia.
Are we getting angry? If not why
not? There is an old Korean saying that I think we should ponder
during these times. Enjoy the ecstasy of your righteous anger. Our anger
in the present circumstances, would most certainly be righteous.
