Tighten your belts says Gideon

 

Oh noes, living standards are set to drop10% as the State attempts to make up for falling tax revenues by squeezing useven harder to maintain the flow of funds into the ever emptying coffers. Panicensues on the left, as we head back towards Victorian England where allchildren died up chimneys before they reached the age of 6 and 12 Landownersenslaved the entire nation in textile mills.

So where will you make the cuts? 3^rdholiday to Disneyland off the cards? Paintyour own nails? Learn how to cook a curry yourself? Let the season ticket towatch 11 footballers run about for 90 minutes lapse?

I can imagine the scenes now. Schoolchildren walking to school, fruit and veg stalls being set up in towns tosupply the ever growing demand for people who can no longer afford to buy readymeals from Waitrose. Second cars flooding the market with people no longercommuting from Newcastle to London everyday to shuffle paper around adesk.

Austerity is a GOOD thing. It preserves wealth. Greed andconsumerism is a BAD thing, especially when it is financed with credit. We havebecome addicted to what we feel we are entitled to, instead of what we haveactually earned. It’s not just the state benefit addicted sofa surfers who willbe outraged when requested to actually contribute or lose their beer vouchers,but the “hard pressed Mums” who will no longer be able to sip skinny latteswhilst someone else looks after their children. I'm expecting riots when a Starbucks in Swindon goes bust.

We are where we are because Politiciansbelieved the banks who offered limitless growth using money they invented. What better device to bribethe electorate with than their own money, not yet earned? The very samePoliticians now attacking the banks for lending them all this free money thathas yet to exist, yet refusing to destroy what the endless money allowed themto build. The behemoth they control. The ever growing bloated tumour of “Government”

If the very least we can expect is a 10%drop in living standards for the utter chaos reeked (sic) by 13 years of Socialism,we will have got off very lightly indeed.

We’re all in this together, remember. Me? I’lllook after my own pension, my own health and my own wealth thanks. There willbe no drop in my living standards, I already live within my means and I’mdamned if I’m paying off the profligate spending ambitions of corruptPoliticians.

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