Have we become too fixated upon the ‘poor’?
Over the last few weeks I have heard ministers and other politicians talking about the many planned cuts. In nearly all cases, any mention of a cut was followed by an explanation of how the ‘poor’ will not suffer. In other cases, the first retaliation was that the ‘poor’ would be hardest hit. It occurred to me that maybe we have taken our eye off the ball.
It is true that one measure of a civilised society is how it treats its poorest and disadvantaged members. Can this treatment get out of all proportion? It appears to me that since 1997, the total focus of the government has been built upon creating a “fairer society”. Great marketing speak. Just what is a fairer society? Well it seems to me it was taking from the ‘rich’ and giving to the poor. The ‘rich’ appeared to be anything that had money and the ‘poor’ were those that did not.
In amongst the ‘rich’ was business; to the Left, the rich capitalists who lived off the back of the hard working poor. In the eyes of the Left, Business was a bottomless pit that could be constantly plundered for cash. If not for cash, Business contributed to the ‘fair’ society by taking on health and safety laws and other red tape – oh yes, we would be fair to our people. On top of the money they took from business in being spreading fairness, Labour borrowed billions of pounds, doubling, if not tripling, the National Debt. In doing so, they have risked killing the goose that lays the Golden Egg – Business! What is frightening, in his desire to be seen as protector of the poor, David Cameron is going to make the same mistake.
It is predicted that the national debt will be £1.3trillion by 2015/16 and still rising. What a legacy to leave the next generation. More and more of our national wealth will be going to pay the interest on this enormous debt. The only way we can begin to address the situation is to have e really healthy business base in place. British business will provide jobs, pay taxes and bring wealth into the country and yet we actually have so little. It has been estimated that 53% of our population lives off the state in one way or another – how on earth can it be that so few are actually funding so many?
What we have allowed to develop is a nation that is hooked on dependency, a dependency on the State. How is that dependency fed – from fewer and fewer individuals who do not look to the State. It is no wonder the National Debt is where it is. All of labour’s so called improvements have been funded on borrowed money. We are living way beyond our means people – wake up.
We must unleash business, free it from all the red tape and some of the ludicrous taxation it carries. Until we create jobs and wean people away from the State Sector and the dole queues we are in serious trouble. At this rate we will end up like Greece and that will be far more painful than any cuts we are seeing today.
The question is, has Cameron the cojones to do it? The jury is out, but it ain’t looking good.
