While the
millionaires' club, also known as the G8, discuss how best to save
and maximise the unimaginable wealth of their billionaire friends,
for convenience let's call them the financial Mafia, the ordinary
people are getting screwed. The talk is all about saving the Euro,
protecting the liquidity of the banks and reducing the deficit. All
very rational sounding, it is all a matter of figures, percentages
etc. and as they sit in splendour, munching on lavish meals, the
thought of the suffering inflicted on the ordinary people by their
policies will not enter their heads. Of course they may discuss how
to control any anger that may arise from that suffering, but not how
to alleviate it in any way. We are expendable, in their eyes our
suffering is necessary to safeguard their wealth. It is necessary to
plunder all public assets to help them balance their crooked books.
Unemployment helps to keep down wage bills, increases profit and
makes them more competitive, in their eyes a great idea.
"We're going through tough times."
Across Europe unemployment is rising to levels not seen since that
last big “capitalist crisis” in the 30s. In this country there
has been 270,000 public sector jobs lost in 2011, 71,000 roles
disappeared in education and 31,000 disappeared in the National
Health Service. Unemployment is at 8.2%, with unemployment among the
young (16 to 24) is at 22.2%, a staggering 1,033,000 young lives
being blighted to balance the books of the crooked banking system.
Closer to home, here in Glasgow we have three parliamentary
constituencies in the city where unemployment is 10% or more. It is
not just a matter of employed and unemployed, there is also
under-employed. The figures for the last quarter show that those in
full employment fell by 13,000 but those in part time employment rose
by 118,000, part time employment accounts for more than 18% of the
workforce. Of course again these are just figures, they don't in any
way portray the misery that is attached to them. Unemployment,
under-employment, translates into poverty, malnutrition, illness
caused by being unable to heat your home in winter, stress related
problems which impinge on personal relationships, and all to appease
the accountants of the billionaires.
What the financial Mafia will be discussing at the G8 is not our
world, our world is the well being of all of humanity, theirs is the
personal wealth of an army of parasites, we are in conflict with each
other. Their decisions negatively impact on our lives, but we don't
need them. We can organise the world in a more sane, just, and
sustainable manner, we can organise to see to the needs of all our
people. The world has enough resources to see to all our needs, it is
the money system of the corporate world's wealthy parasites that
holds and hordes those resources, creating mass poverty and
deprivation in the interests of profit. We should always remember, we
are governed by consent, we have the right to withdraw that consent,
as I said, we don't need them, but they need us.
