OUT OF STEP

Perhaps I am out of step about things, but I find the average citizen (or whatever you want to call them) incredibly stupid.
Take the example of the idea of everybody having an ID card similar to the American Social Security card. Quite rightly the people vetoed the idea as they should. However they then allow the Government to introduce a tax file number that follows you wherever you go, You need it to get a loan, open a bank account, start a business, in fact you can’t do anything without it. Yes, Mr and Mrs Moron just sat back and let themselves be put further under the microscope.
Still, they deserve what they get. Every day they are demanding better roads, more welfare, more hospitals, schools and trees in the street, yet they think it can all be accomplished without the need to up taxes – Struth don’t they even realise that the countries that are actually enjoying a true, rather than, apparent, wealth growth as the ones with bad roads and not a tree planter to be seen.

The division between wealthy and poor grows ever wider, such a dangerous situation because once it gets to a certain point you have big trouble, pitchforks and flaming torches storming the castle are nothing compared to what the poor could do these days. Most of the blame must rest with the financial and legal institutions; they are the ones bleeding the working population dry, banks upping fees and charges while announcing record profits. The legal system that only really serves a person according to their wealth. Every sector of our lives is under the control of some financial/legal power, forget governments as such, they are only the fall guy for those hiding in the wings..
All this may seem rather dramatic but unless something happens in the very near future I see very dark and troubled waters ahead.

The quality of life is rapidly being eroded by the need to service these insidious , faceless powers; buy, buy, buy and then pay back over time with crippling interest that sucks any prolonged joy out of life and turns it into nothing more than ‘existence’. The amazing part is that people don’t even realise that they have been manipulated into being simply slaves to the system.

I’m rather glad my years are drawing to close, I would hate to be around when the crunch comes and just trying to live in our present society is far too much for this ancient mariner.