Every four or five years we go through the same old repetition of politicians promising the electorate the world, better housing, lower taxes, more policing, more schools, better roads etc etc etc in fact anything they think we want to hear. We experience politicians lining up to have their five minutes of fame on the television promising us anything that gets them a sound or video bite. Why do we put up with it?
Why do we put up with our governments using us as bottomless savings banks to dip into in order for them to fiddle around with systems that just don’t function anyway? Why cant they find ways of building roads, schools, increasing policing and allow more building with the funds they already deduct from us? Are they so lacking in fantasy and expertise that they think the only way to do something is to throw money at it and increase government employees? Shell, MacDonald’s, Philips etc etc would have gone bankrupt years ago if they had run their companies the way governments run our countries. We only have to look at Greece, Italy and Spain to see what a mess they have made of things and America ain't that much better either.
In Norway some 3 years or so ago we were “encouraged” by the government of the day to buy diesel driven cars, they were the “in” thing of the day, but no sooner than half the population had done so than the surcharge on them and diesel increased substantially. Now, some three years later they “leaked” a new proposed resolution that would increase the cost of diesel vehicles even more considerably; apparently we should now be driving hybrids, so they are now “encouraging” us to sell our diesels and buy hybrids, but who's going to buy our heavily penalised diesel vehicles? Of course, this gave the press a field day with bold headlines about the injustice and cost of the resolution to penalise diesel vehicle owners. Some days later the government revised their position and modified the amount somewhat. The general population were pacified. But why aren’t we reacting to the fact that yet a new surcharge has been introduced? We were duped into believing that “popular opinion has overcome”, doesn’t anybody realise they sneaked the surcharge in by first leaking an exaggerated proposal and then pretending to listen to the populace for so to introduce the real one? How can we trust, that once the population starts going over to hybrid, a new surcharge on Hybrids is levied as well?
Whilst I do not in any way advocate violence, I admire the French; when they feel an injustice is done to them, they demonstrate en-mass, surely organised peaceful civil disobedience is the only way to make politicians and those sneaky little grey mandarins creeping around government corridors of power understand that they are the servants of the people; put there by us to look after our interests, they are not there to further there own little power agendas.
Some years ago an economist worked out that after paying all our taxes, surcharges etc etc some 90% of every monetary unit we earn goes in taxes! I'm not against paying taxes, but I am against being lied to and extorted by people who don't know their a**e from a hole in the ground!
So why don’t we stand up to these people and say enough is enough? I suppose like me, most of us are waiting for someone else to do it for us?
I only asked.
Well said Stephen. It doesn't seem to matter in which country a politician plies his or her 'trade', they are all the same. They must think us all fools. When you have an elected member who thinks it is safe for the UK to have a referendum on whether or not we stay in the EU (a bit dangerous that) but another who feels that we cannot be trusted with a referendum on the restoration of capital punishment, that about says it all.
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