british elections

[Peter Korsten]

Op 7-5-2010 16:13, Romain / rXg schreef:

> Who check the politic situation in Belgium ?
>   I think it s quite symbolical about Europe which is imo Fucked up ...
> Greece as the rest of the Europe economy( Spain , Italia, France) is
> fucked by the banks and the politics play with them
> quite friendly (between themselves they are special family or mafia,
> they don t give a flying shit about you or other citizens in general
>   but only about their rewards and own political profit to be satisfied
> with  their own dominant behaviours and pleasures,   ),

That's a popular point of view, and as many popular points of view, it's 
also rather incorrect, or at least a lot more complex than that.

Basically, people don't want to pay taxes, but they want to get a lot of 
things from their government (except interference, of course). In other 
words, they want a free lunch.

The prime example of that for the last decade has been the US, but you 
can look at most European countries as well. Basically, both people and 
governments have been living beyond their means, spending more than they 
earn.

You can blame the banks for providing easy credit, but nobody puts a gun 
to your head and forces you to take out a loan. It's like blaming 
lawyers, but lawyers exist because people make a mess of their lives, 
and these days we no longer 'solve' our problems by beating up or 
killing the other party.

> Now if people / citizen like or even "love"  to get loans from banks to
> enrich the banks owners and politics, or lets say :
> to be in chained in their consumption dream that society taught them to
> be ...( their are good dogs after all ... )

Like Tony (HB) said, people think they have a right to this, that and 
the other. Well, you don't. Yet, when I look around me (especially in 
the Netherlands), I see people drive big cars, live in big houses, watch 
big televisions; it all has to be XXL.

> cause people are dumb !!! I repeat myself I know .

Now that's a rather offensive remark. Even though I'm in the upper 1% or 
0.1%, one thing I've found is that intelligence or whatever you want to 
call it is no guarantee that you won't make a mess of your life, in 
whatever way. You can have a good job and still be abused by your 
husband, for example. Happens all the time.

Anyway, there was a rather long article (in English) on the site of Der 
Spiegel, which I found rather enlightening:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,692666,00.html

Worth a read, if you find the time.

- Peter