While David Cameron readies us all for the immense pain ahead that we will suffer due to the massive and brutal cuts in the public sector. You now have the classic corporate capitalist whining about the need to cut taxes for the rich while everyone else faces massive cuts. Indeed the CBI are arguing that the rich should be protected while the rest of us go to the wall. It really does expose a visceral class hatred for working class people but also for the welfare state and public sector.
I wonder how the Con/Dems will react to Richard Lambert, the CBI’s director-general, proposal? But then you will witness this a number of times, corporate capitalism protecting its interests (funny really in some sick way as they create this economic mess) while we will be the ones paying.
What will happen after the next boom created by the supposed creativity and flair unleashed by the Con/Dem economic policies turns to a bust? Will working class people be told to give up the luxury of eating food?
The rich are rich not through talent but because they always ask for more: and only occasionally get told to get stuffed.
The rich get richer because the vile market system knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Take cleaners, for example. The market system will sneer that cleaners are ‘ten a penny’ or hold a similar insulting attitude and therefore pay them peanuts. But do the peanuts reflect the value of the actual work that they do? No they do not. If cleaners downed cloths and brushes, the dirt would pile up, rubbish would overflow, toilets would become filthy and dust would smog. Nobody would want to work there and nobody would want to take their business there.
Every cog in the wheel is important; if one cog fails, it would not matter which cog fails, the wheel would founder and the machinery fail. The cleaner does just as important work as the CEO.
But the market system does not value or respect the work that the cleaner does because it knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And this applies to all sorts of things in the dreary world of capitalism. The rich should be targeted, not spared. This crap about ‘trickle down’ has lost what semblance of credibility it ever had.