Will things ever get easier for the common man?

ruggedtoast

Inflation surging, unemployment rising, wages frozen or cut, many people are beginning to feel the pinch. But how much more can real incomes be cut before straitened family finances are capsized by the greed and caprice of our failed economy?

An economy that benefits the few at the expense of the many? An economy that punishes innovators and hard workers, and instead places a feather bed under the f-eckless, the entitled and the privileged.

Look in any supermarket in the land, economy and value items are becoming almost permanently sold out, people are competing for offer items. Ragged thin looking pensioners push trolleys, empty of all but a few meagre items, while harassed young families load up on bare essentials and dread the checkout at the end.

The only people thriving are smug, rosy cheeked boomers, filling their baskets with premium branded Christmas goodies, and vastly over compensated and favoured professionals, drip fed fat salaries, bled from the arm of the common working man.

It is so depressing I despair of this country.

:money:

Ilya_Ilyich

It'll be fine after the revolution comes.

Jimmy_31

I know plenty of common working men who go to work everyday which in turn causes them to end up in more and more debt.

These are not men who live a lavish lifestyle, they just have a mortgage and the normal household and work related bills to pay.

Wages in this country are a joke for the common working man at the moment, so i would like to know what the government are doing now that lots of common working people are unable to pay the basic bills.

ruggedtoast

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

I know plenty of common working men who go to work everyday which in turn causes them to end up in more and more debt.

These are not men who live a lavish lifestyle, they just have a mortgage and the normal household and work related bills to pay.

Wages in this country are a joke for the common working man at the moment, so i would like to know what the government are doing now that lots of common working people are unable to pay the basic bills.

What are they doing? Well, they're cutting public sector salaries, cutting public sector jobs, cutting public spending, decimating pensions, cutting EMA, cutting house building, cutting benefits to the working poor, burdening students with huge sums for education.

Thats not all they're doing of course, they're also feathering their own nests and making damn sure that there is no chance of any kind of regulatory environment coming about that will redistribute wealth from the richest to the poorest. They are busy.

Graham_Devon

Oh purlease.

I've just seen someone with an iphone. Everything is fine.

Hope you bought some tin foil at the supermarket.

Procrastinator333

ruggedtoast wrote: »

What are they doing? Well, they're cutting public sector salaries, cutting public sector jobs, cutting public spending, decimating pensions, cutting EMA, cutting house building, cutting benefits to the working poor, burdening students with huge sums for education.

Thats not all they're doing of course, they're also feathering their own nests and making damn sure that there is no chance of any kind of regulatory environment coming about that will redistribute wealth from the richest to the poorest. They are busy.

Yeah, it is so not fair. Only being in the top 5% of the wealthiest people on the planet. That sucks.

Here is an idea. Stop moaning and concentrate your energy on spending less or earning more. Or both.

Generali

ruggedtoast wrote: »

What are they doing? Well, they're cutting public sector salaries, cutting public sector jobs, cutting public spending, decimating pensions, cutting EMA, cutting house building, cutting benefits to the working poor, burdening students with huge sums for education.

Thats not all they're doing of course, they're also feathering their own nests and making damn sure that there is no chance of any kind of regulatory environment coming about that will redistribute wealth from the richest to the poorest. They are busy.

Perhaps if The Workers were able to keep more of their own money in their pockets rather than having it taken to bail out middle class savers, subsidise places at university for middle class children and pay huge state pensions and other benefits to people who can easily afford retirement from their own funds then they might be able to live more easily.

lvader

It amazes me that people think we have it bad now, maybe compared to the credit driven growth last decade. In the seventies my dad worked as a scientist and both my mum and dad has extra part time jobs, but we had a council house, couldn't afford a car and could barely afford a crappy caravan holiday one every couple of years. People on benefits live better than most hard working people in other times.

pfpf

Will things ever get easier for the common man?

everytime we go out and pass "eateries" they are always PACKED, even midweek early afternoons.

nando's, pizza hut, harvester, McD's, F&B etc etc.

how hard can it be?

TruckerT

I think the important thing is to count your blessings (we all have at least one, I hope...), take nothing for granted, and try to read the writing on the wall

The writing on the wall was clearly there to see before the property market imploded, but too many people walked on by

TruckerT

JayBrun

@ruggedtoast: I certainly give you full marks for persistence if not originality.
Every other day you start a new thread with a different title but the same message.

In as much as you preach to the converted you may feel it maintains the momentum but I can't help thinking it just hardens and reinforces the resolve of those you criticise and seem to detest.

Many years ago, like many others, I thought that when the revolution came everything would change for the better, but of course the revolution never came and indeed receded further and further into the distance, not least as revolutions elsewhere failed the people they were supposed to benefit.

I didn't give up, simply realised it wasn't going to happen and would have caused more problems than it would have solved.

Perhaps it will be different this time but I very much doubt it.
What many experience now is far from ideal but I respectfully suggest what you seek, and not least some of your supporters, fills the majority with trepidation - so they won't let it happen.

There could well be some chaos for a while but that will just lead to an ever more harsh and 'oppressive' resistance.

At least I hope you won't persist too long and become bitter, which happens to some, it already has, because you just harm yourself and those around you pursuing an impossible dream.

I wish you well, just not in this particular endeavour.