Public sector workers on strike tomorrow, or members of some unions are*. One day off and it's Armageddon for our media, politicians and a horde of right wing shits. That's how important these people are, they take a day off and the fabric of our society begins to unravel. For Christ's sake, Cameron, get your manicured hands off their pensions, or they might take two days off and we'll all be dead.
One local Conservative MP has accused the teachers of abandoning children, turning them out into the streets to be kidnapped by paedophiles, child traffickers or Tory politicians. I assume that's what leaving children to be looked after by their parents means to him. Admittedly more child abuse takes place in families than in schools (leaving aside the Christian Brothers), so maybe that's his point.
Meanwhile, in Greece, a warning for us all is being played out. Politicians+international bankers+the circling vultures of the kleptocracy = serfdom for the masses. Strikes are what the ruling class fear most of all. petitions, marches, votes for the parcel of rogues in opposition; they can stand all that. Workers can do more damage with their hands in their pockets than any amount of sabotage, as some old Wobbly once noted. That's why the media are pouring out their venom on the public sector workers; that's what all the disinformation and scaremongering is about.
I hope the weather keeps nice for the pickets. If it does I'll get out and give them a bit of support. These are the people we depend upon. MPs will soon be taking a three month holiday (something like that) and nobody will notice their absence. They however, get a £500 a week pension after fifteen years, and nobody's going to steal (recover?) that.
*Members of other unions will be working as usual, or scabbing, as we in the IWW call it.
9 comments:
One of your nastier posts Jemmy. You and i couldn't be more different people.
So, bureaucrats, 2nd grade teachers and street sweepers are critical to day to day life. Not where I live.
Greece is a tragedy brought about by grotesque govt overspending. The Greeks are circling the drain because of their own GREED. the German taxpayer does not have responsibility to bail them out from their unsustainable lifestyles - brought to the world by blood sucking unions.
So you think the stuff about dying was serious comment?
I thought the whole thing was nasty, Jemmy. Greece is hardly an example of workers being screwed. Everybody cheated on their taxes. Absues, such as hairdressers being provided for paid luxurious retirement at age 50 or something, were rampant. The govt was the main employer. It was a system built on the presumed backing tax payers in more honest and hard working countries, like Germany and France. It was always doomed to failure. Now its just the degree to which, and when.
BTW, I am so enjoying reading TGIA go ballistic on his website about some pseudo celebrity's trip to Israel. He continues to behave like a spoiled brat, so very, very, very unattractive and completely unlikable.
Everybody cheats on their taxes. So you checked all their tax returns. The rich, whose crimes you waste you're life defending are the big tax dodgers. We have a government minister, responsible for steering the British economy (into the pockets of his cronies) who managed to avoid paying £1.5 million in taxes on his bloated income. His government appointed a billionaire, who manages to pay no taxes at all, as advisor on how to get the country out of the fiscal mire. But you point your finger at some street pedlar on the black economy. You are pathetic.
Keep buying the drones. The military-industrial complex needs YOUR taxes.
Most Americans believe in a strong military. I know I do. There are many ancillary benefits of military technology - like GPS and the on Internet. You know, the thing you are using RIGHT NOW. Nevertheless, damn those ignorant and stupid war mongering Yanks! )
Hardly pointing mymfinger at one greek person. Rather, at the whole entitlement based culture, where it's all about TAKINg out as much from the system as possible. Damn think was built on a pile of laziness and greed.
What? Isn't greed good anymore? Do you now approve of citizens handing over their hard-earned income to the state?
We all engage in greed Jemmy. Otherwise start sending all your "spare" dough to the poor in India?
There is a differnence between greed that is earned and that from theft/others. Govt "Teat Suckers" drain the system under the guise of "fairness" and wealth redistribution. They are parasitic losers. To them their right to others wealth is simply because they have less. It is egregiously selfish, not sustainable and, ultimately, if allowed to persist, takes down the well being of all. It destroys society, as is playing out in Greece at the moment.
Meanwhile 'greedy' people who CREATE wealth (ie Bill Gates), allow society to move forward, grow wealthy and help many propser.
Pure 'Takers', like those in Greece, are a blight upon humanity. Their entitlement mindset is worse than any plague of locusts. If left untreated its a fatal disease.
Under your ideal model the Greeks would all be left to perish. It could happen if the nutters, you call "wealth creators" aren't reigned in. What a satisfactory outcome for you and your kind in the Milt Friedmann Fan Club.
Why is it my job, or yours, or the Germans, to take care of Greece? Do you rely on strangers from around the world to pay your light bill, or make sure a car isn't coming when you turn left?
I dont rely on strangers, or expect anyone to take responsibility for my screw ups? Do we not deserve what we get if we behave like morons? The world is way too big for us all to be everybody else's caretaker.
We are, if we choose, perhaps responsible for our friends and families. Anything else is purely voluntary.
Are you so much more talented and capable than me that you have the wherewithal to make sure every person in the world is "ok"? Wow, that sounds like a sh#%^#load of work....
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