Who’s to blame……
It’s getting popular in the west to scapegoat huge chunks of national populations. It’s the blacks/romas/whites/disabled/kids/unemployed/(bored of the random minority game now)/whomever…… they get everyones goat and they are driving down the economy. It must be true, the media is full of it.
Bull Crap
Stop Press – just because it’s in the press/on tv/on the web, doesn’t make it true. In a capitalist free market economy, the main things that effect economies are the financial markets and politicians. These are the only groups in society where at the apex you can fail and yet still be rewarded. The unemployed didn’t run banks into the wall in the US or UK. Racial minorities didn’t set policies that allow big corporations to welch on their tax responsibilities. Kids at street corners are not outsourcing your employment. Your big shareholders and politicians did. Be a bit more unforgiving of bad journalism and lazy politicians, follow the money. Someone got rich, we all lost.
Just an example - When various british institutions owned by the taxpayer sold their own buildings and grounds, who reaped a benefit ? In the short term users gained new buildings generally on a less desirable site, usually late, frequently unsuitable for purpose, often of inferior quality and planned lifespan, and in pretty much all cases the replacements are owned by private companies. Under the terms that were negotiated, these buildings/grounds revert to the private company after a fixed term, meaning we get to pay for it all over again in X number of years. Wash, rinse, repeat. Frequently the directors of these institutions end up being made directors of the private companies concerned, on a regular basis so do politicians.
In fact many politicians respond to lobbying, a practice where companies or individuals with a vested interest present those interests “in the lobby” of parliament/Senate/whatever it is where you are. Altogether too many of these politicians then end up as directors of those companies after leaving politics
If you’d like to understand why it is that it can be in a shareholders interest for a company to sink without trace, then read this …..
Politics it’s a pork barrel. Always follow the money.
I do know people who say they don’t do politics, but the truth is lots of ordinary folks died to ensure you still get a vote today, and with that vote comes responsibility. Everyone uses some kind of service provided by the taxpayer at some point in their life. Maybe you don’t want your bosses boss to bugger off with all of the money whilst you get the shaft. Maybe you just want to live in peace with your neighbour. Maybe you’re concerned that the worse happens and you get knocked over in the street or some slimeball commits a terrorist act that affects… If you fit any of these groups, then in some small way, you do in fact do politics.
When voting time comes….. remember what you read here.
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