by Bo-Gilly » Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:22 pm
[quote]Anti-capitalists: take note, have a wash, and get off your @r$e$. The world doesn't owe you a living
I see that you struggle to follow current affairs as much as you struggle to follow threads on a cycling forum Dombo.
The protesters outside St Paul’s Cathedral are not protesting about unemployment, although obviously increased unemployment is one of the symptoms of the global crises caused by bankers.
Plenty of the protesters have jobs, they include a freelance writer, a systems analyst, a caterer, a charity worker, a forces veteran, and so on. They are indeed people who have
'got off their arses', as you so contemptuously suggest they should.
Unsurprisingly, they also include some of the one million unemployed young people, some of which, having completed their studies and secured themselves a degree or two, are waiting to enter the labour market......people with a bit of 'spare time' on their hands you could say, and young people who would rather do something proactive instead of sitting at home watching telly whilst waiting for replies to job applications.
What they
are protesting about, and it's part of a global protest, is against corporate greed, and against the economic instability of inequality, but above all, against the rampant unregulated free-market fundamentalism which has got the world in this mess.
And make no mistake, despite all the attempts to shift the blame for the global crises onto "stupid and lazy" Greeks, the last Labour government, and multitude of other excuses, it is the greed-driven incompetence of unregulated bankers, that goes to the very heart of the present global financial crises.
It is this fact which has caused so much anger throughout the world. The same bankers/financial institutions which banged on so much about the virtues of the unregulated free-market which is free of government interference, suddenly expected and demanded immediate government intervention to save them from the mess which they had created for themselves through their own greed and incompetence.
And to pay for the mind-boggling astronomical sums of money which was needed to save their own incompetent skins, they expected and demanded that ordinary working people cough up, whilst they continued to rake in profits and handsome fat bonuses.
Where elected governments have failed to do 100% of what they expected and demanded of them, the bankers have ensured that they were replaced by totally unelected 'technocrats". They were particularly outraged with a prime minister who despite willing to do their bidding, had the barefaced cheek to suggest asking the people who elected him their opinion on the matter.
What we are experiencing is the bankers' dictatorship. And not entirely unexpected, many people are angry. Not least because banks are not the way out of this mess. Creating fictitious capital by moving money around in a 'clever' way does not produce material wealth. To produce real wealth, someone somewhere, has to make something....there is no other way.
Maybe a few bankers could get rid of their pretentious red braces, off their fat arses, and get themselves proper jobs. Instead of sponging off the rest of us.
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What do you mean 'squeezing people out of jobs' ? .........surely the reason there is unemployment is because people are lazy and want to live off benefits ? There's plenty of work out there if people want it ....... is there not ?