While our millionaire political
playboys keep re-assuring us that they are on the right track to
economic recovery, the figures just don't stack up. In the 17 nation
Euro Zone, unemployment has reached a new record high, in fact the
highest since the EU statistics office started collecting data in
1995. Unemployment in the Euro Zone is sitting at 12.2% with several
countries well over that average. Unemployment of young people in
Greece is now over 60%, while Italy is facing the highest
unemployment in 36 years, with the young of that country having to
live with more than 40% unemployment. France, the second largest
economy in the Euro Zone is also facing a new record in unemployment.
At the same time the Euro Zone is faced with the longest recession
since 1999. Green shoots of growth???
Of course all those committees
of economic experts have grand plans, they will oscillate between
deeper austerity and printing more money. To discuss this as an
economic problem will keep the answers in the economic bracket and so
will go round and round on how to cut the debt, how fast to cut the
debt, to forget the debt for a moment and print more money to spend.
All of which means more of the same for you and I, a life of
struggle.
Also to keep the discussion in the economic field masks the
real problem, it is a human problem. In Greece what does 62.7%
unemployment mean to the young people of that country? What does the
future hold for that 40% of unemployed young Italians? Are they
suffering because we in Europe do not have the material resources to
see to their needs? Are we saying that as a continent we don't know
how to use the potential energy and skill of all those young people?
Or is it that the system is geared to making sure that the wealthy
continue to stay wealthy at the cost of the future of our children
and our grand children.
Europe is an extremely wealth continent, well
capable of supporting all its people, there is food in abundance,
there are things that need doing, there are people willing to do
them, but unless there is a profit in it for that over fed, pampered
bunch of parasites that sit in the ivory towers of control, then
those young lives can go and rot in some dingy back street.
The real
problem is the system, capitalism cannot see to the needs of all our
people, it wasn't set up to see to the welfare of the people, it
wasn't started to see that everybody got a job, it wasn't set up to
improve the well being of the ordinary people. It is doing what it
was set up to do, create wealth for the business class and at the
moment it is doing that very well indeed, so don't look for any real
changes from that bunch. To see to the needs of all our people the
present economic system has to go, and the change will have to come
from the people, only we ourselves can and will set up a system that
sees fairly to the needs of all our people.
