Sunday Thoughts

I find it depressing than the super rich have been allowed to get away with murder and things like health and education have to be sacrificed to pay for the mess they have caused with their greed.

No one ever hears government saying the super rich need to be cut, that their offshore tax havens need to be shut down and that they should be made to pay

Instead its health, education, transport which has to be cut, squeezed and bled dry, with each political party trying to prove how macho they are when it comes to these cuts. Then there are the attacks on the most vulnerable of society by politicians hoping for catchy headlines and tabloid approval.

If there is the merest whiff that the super rich might have to ya know contribute to this planet we live in, they get smelling salts and threaten to leave. David Osler put it best

The idea that the rich should hand over a higher proportion of their income than the less well off has been a mainstay of the broadly progressive outlook since Lloyd George’s people’s budget of 1909, and it is high time the principle was restored.

It is not as if the elite live on another planet. It is unacceptable for a small number of plutocrats to pay little or nothing to the public purse, while benefiting disproportionately from the things for which it pays.

Even if they do use private hospitals and independent schools, who do they think foots the bill for the tax credits that subsidise the low pay on offer to many of their employees, the roads their chauffeurs drive them along, or the streetlights outside their offices, and to give just a handful of examples?

Sunday Thoughts *updated*

I really do believe that so many issues which plague the Middle East could be resolved if the Israel/Palestine question was properly sorted out.

It is a small percentage of hardliners on both sides which are holding it back, and i think that Hamas firing rockets into Israel is a major mistake on their part, because it just gives, pardon the pun, more ammo to the hardliners on the Israeli side. The hardliners in Israel are the reason Hamas is so powerful, hence why I sometimes think they want the violence to contiue on both sides to keep them in power.

The way the peace process should be handled is that it needs to be done in stages, have targets which everyone should meet

If you look at the history of the conflict between the UK and terrorists in most cases its been brought to an end by early communication by the parties who should in theory shouldn't be talking to each other