Burn Baby Burn.

       I have no doubt that all us ordinary folks that are struggling to find the cash to heat our homes this winter, will shed a tear of sympathy for the owner of the £8 million+ 76ft. Yacht, Kahu, that went up in flames at Cowes Marina on the Isle of Wight, yesterday. This is the picture of the UK austerity, homeless children, elderly dying from avoidable cold related illnesses, food banks and kids going to school hungry, and parasites “messing around in boats” valued at more than you or I would ever earn in our lifetime. Capitalism, the system of contradictions, we who produce all the wealth in the world, struggle for a half decent life, while the parasitic wealth plunderers lavish themselves in unearned opulence.

    

       According to the organisation Shelter Scotland, this year 4,847 children in Scotland will spend Christmas homeless. While the pompous parasite class flick through the pages of the latest yacht catalogue, we in Scotland have more than 20% of all our kids living in poverty. In some areas it is 33% and more. This is amongst the highest child poverty rates in Europe, with Denmark and Norway having 10%, while in that so called, capitalist economic success story, Germany, it is still a shocking 15%.

      These figures are not just about hungry kids living in poverty, it is about blighted lives, destroyed potential, poor health and education, a future so much less that it could be. None of these problems are insoluble, the knowledge and resources are there to eliminate poverty. However because we tolerate a system of exploitation, called capitalism, children will go to bed hungry, elderly will die from hypothermia, while others will plan the next cruise in their £8 million yacht.

      I couldn't give a shit if every yacht went up in smoke tomorrow, the loss of these useless toys of the parasite class will be no loss to the ordinary people of this world. It's a pity that the marina staff managed to save the fire from spreading to the other symbols of inequality, as far as I'm concerned, burn baby burn.

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Eating Or Heating.

      As you ruminate on your problem of eating or heating, your mate in workfare, your disabled neighbour facing ATOS, and your friend on zero hours contract, perhaps you could spare a thought for Bruce Rockowitz and Coco Lee. This couple got married recently and their wedding is reported to have cost $20 million, yes, $20 million. Bruce, is one of those products of the capitalist system, creating personal wealth from sweatshop exploitation, his 2012 income is reported as almost $7 million, while his bride Coco, a Hong Kong pop star, not short of a bob or two herself, likewise is a product of this system.

 

      This typifies the glaring injustice in the economic system we tolerate, two relatively young people have amassed an unbelievable fortune. One from exploiting desperate vulnerable people, the other by being the subject of media hype. While the most of us put in a full days work all our lives, creating the wealth that they enjoy, and we just about get by. We live amidst an abundance of wealth that we created, yet most live in poverty, is that the best we can do?

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WHAT'S YOUR PENSION WORTH???

         As our well manicured millionaires that haunt the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption force us to work longer and contribute more to our pensions, for less at the end, while spouting about us all being in this together and other crap about the broadest shoulders taking the greatest load, etc. we should take a look at their millionaire CEO chums’ pension pots. Jeroen van der Veer, former boss of Royal Dutch Shell, £1.4m a year. Former Barclays boss John Varley £1.2m. Sir Frank Chapman, CEO of BG Group, and David Brennan, CEO of AstraZeneca, more than a million a year. Diageo's CEO Paul Walsh, more than £930,000 a year. Yea, we’re all in this together!!!  What will this bunch of parasites care about cuts in social services, lack of opportunities, deteriorating education system. How much thought will they give to this year’s heating bills, Their unimaginable wealth will shower them with choices, where as most of us, this winter, will be faced with one choice, to eat or to heat.

         Britain's top company bosses have stashed away pension pots that have soared by 70 per cent in less than a decade and are now at record levels, according to new statistics to be published this week. The five biggest pension pots of FTSE 100 directors are worth more than £84m combined – nearly 600 times greater than the £150,000 that the average retirement fund of five working Britons would amount to. Income inequality in the UK is nothing short of mind-boggling. The average income of a FTSE 100 chief executive, according to the most recent Guardian survey of executive pay, is over £3m per year, including bonuses and pension contributions. Jaw droppingly more than 100 times

median household income. It is common for CEOs to soar 200 or 300 times as much as the median pay of their employees or, in the case of Terry Leahy's final year at Tesco, for a CEO to be paid 500 times the average take-home pay of his employees.

   

        Amid what we are told is austere times, while we, the ordinary people, are having cuts forced on us in every aspect of our lives, and our standard of living being undermined, it is safe to say that the millionaire cabal of parasites have never had it so good. Ah, that’s capitalism for you!!!

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