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hawkwing_lb) wrote2007-08-02 09:40 pm
hawkwing_lb) wrote2007-08-02 09:40 pm
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Progress on Duellist has slowed to not even a crawl.
I'd be unhappy about this, save for the fact that the cause of this minor disappointment is the reason why I actually have a paycheck and the possibility - make that extreme likelihood - of a foreign holiday sometime next year.
This is the good news.
#
On TuesdayI read an article that appalled me:
Anger as gaping gulf in wealth revealed
Actually, I read two. I can't find the second one, but it links a growing number of racist incidents to the ever-widening wealth gap.
I don't blame people for being poor, ignorant and resentful. I do blame them for being stupid. Guess what? You're not hard-off because "those damn immigrants are stealing our jobs and benefits and sponging off the state." You're hard-off because, you know what?
Your government is failing you. And has been failing you since the early eighties, at least, but most egregiously so in the last decade.
Because in the last decade, they've had the revenue to address the problems endemic to the education system - which is pretty much the number one factor in whether or not people have access to anything but unskilled minimum wage jobs - and in the health system. They've had the revenue to put in place support systems to help people who fall into poverty, or who've never managed to claw their way out.
They've had the revenue for decent child support, decent sex education programmes, decent retraining programmes, decent damn near everything.
What did they do instead?
Tax breaks.
Over-budget transport projects that don't work nearly as well as they ought.
Over-budget projects that never got off the ground.
Pork for the denizens of the Galway Races party tent.
That's right. They've helped the rich get richer - which includes significant pay rises for their own selves, though that, while emblematic of the larger political mindset, is in reality perhaps the least problemmatical of the many fuckups they've committed and assisted in committing - while letting everyone else get poorer.
For those of us who aren't among the 33,000 millonaires this country can boast - guess what?
They don't give a shit.
And guess what, mates?
These lads who don't give a shit for you?
You voted for them, suckers.
Three fucking times.
I'd be unhappy about this, save for the fact that the cause of this minor disappointment is the reason why I actually have a paycheck and the possibility - make that extreme likelihood - of a foreign holiday sometime next year.
This is the good news.
#
On TuesdayI read an article that appalled me:
Anger as gaping gulf in wealth revealed
Actually, I read two. I can't find the second one, but it links a growing number of racist incidents to the ever-widening wealth gap.
I don't blame people for being poor, ignorant and resentful. I do blame them for being stupid. Guess what? You're not hard-off because "those damn immigrants are stealing our jobs and benefits and sponging off the state." You're hard-off because, you know what?
Your government is failing you. And has been failing you since the early eighties, at least, but most egregiously so in the last decade.
Because in the last decade, they've had the revenue to address the problems endemic to the education system - which is pretty much the number one factor in whether or not people have access to anything but unskilled minimum wage jobs - and in the health system. They've had the revenue to put in place support systems to help people who fall into poverty, or who've never managed to claw their way out.
They've had the revenue for decent child support, decent sex education programmes, decent retraining programmes, decent damn near everything.
What did they do instead?
Tax breaks.
Over-budget transport projects that don't work nearly as well as they ought.
Over-budget projects that never got off the ground.
Pork for the denizens of the Galway Races party tent.
That's right. They've helped the rich get richer - which includes significant pay rises for their own selves, though that, while emblematic of the larger political mindset, is in reality perhaps the least problemmatical of the many fuckups they've committed and assisted in committing - while letting everyone else get poorer.
For those of us who aren't among the 33,000 millonaires this country can boast - guess what?
They don't give a shit.
And guess what, mates?
These lads who don't give a shit for you?
You voted for them, suckers.
Three fucking times.