LEGAL AID is the equivalent of BENEFITS for the lowest of the low income earners, jail birds, illegal immigrants etc., and as a honey pot for long winded lawyers. The rich can afford the rich price of lawyers; the poor – through free legal aid supported by the middle classes through taxation – can afford the rich price of lawyers, whilst the backbone of society, the middle classes, cannot obtain legal aid and aren’t rich enough to afford overpaid lawyers. As always the middle gets the shaft. Legal aid should be financed by the lawyers either by a required contribution by all lawyers making in excess of 100k a year or by pro-bono work !! As long as lawyers fees are outside the ability of ordinary working people to afford then then the blatant discrimination against them in legal matters should require the abolition of legal aid as it stands until everyone can afford lawyers.
VICARIOUS RESPONSIBILITY – ANOTHER WAY THAT COUNCILS COULD RAISE INCOME
In most cities and towns of the World, it is illegal to post bills on city property, however, people do it, and taxpayers spend a lot of money – liberally dispensed by the cities involved – to have them removed. The simplest way to deal with the problem is to invoke the law of vicarious responsibility: they may not know who posted the bills but they know who is paying for their distribution and that can be determined by looking at what is being advertised: go to the source and fine then at least the equivalent of the cost of removing them plus punitive damages.
BRITISH AID TO THE DRUG TRADE
In the last 10 years, during which time the UK government, has doled out pots of money to re-habilitate Afghanistan, it would appear that a large chunk of the money has been used to improve opium poppy production, which has trebled during the same period of time.
The UK’s foreign aid bill – which Mr. Cameron, bloody mindedly, holds at 0.07% of the national GDP, and which is currently around 17 billion pounds a year – has been used to help countries that expand opium production, make atom bombs, support dictatorships and continue to undercut manufacturing costs in the UK to the detriment of all UK citizens !
FORTALEZA, BRAZIL – THEN AND NOW
The World Cup games will be here in just under three months so people might get to see some images of the city on TV…since I first came here a long time ago it has grown from about 250,000 to 2,500,000 people in just 60 years.. the roads are choked with cars and the people keep coming to the seaside city which boasts that it’s Summer lasts 12 months. Currently about 50 high-rise apartment buildings are under construction along with another mega mall to accommodate the continuing demand for safe living spaces for new arrivals and locals alike.
From a city where – in 1956 – I lived safely in a house with a garden, a 2 foot high front wall and windows with just wooden shutters that stayed open all day – no glass, iron bars, hot water or air conditioning – this city is now a place where the majority live in air conditioned homes, travel in air conditioned cars and work in air conditioned offices, stores, malls, etc.; only the people who have to work outdoors, the poor and the tourists walk the streets; the houses are rapidly being bulldozed and the middle and upper classes are all moving into apartment buildings secured by armed guards, or gated communities where people can live in homes like they used to in the past – but the difference is that the developments are surrounded by high walls and the entrances to the communities are secured by armed guards ! What few houses remain in Fortaleza are almost always surrounded by 10 foot high walls topped with broken glass and barbed wire, or they are in the shanty towns where the poor live and don’t need such security. The city has a peripheral area, not unlike Paris’s no-go zones, where people are killed daily, however, just like Paris, the secret to safety is not to enter such areas. The tourist and upmarket commercial areas have a sufficiency of police and private security as to make them safe places to live or visit. Welcome to 21st century Brazil !
CHEMICAL CASTRATION FOR ALL PAEDOPHILES
It is true, just like homosexuals and heterosexuals, paedophiles whether they be straight paedophiles or a combination of heterosexual/paedophiles, homosexual/paedophiles, etc., are born that way and are incurable; however, their proclivity is for sexual relations with people below the age of consent and that is the problem: IF THE PRESENT BRITISH GOVERNMENT OR ANY GOVERNMENT has the empathy to understand the pain suffered by children who have been abused and the pain suffered by their parents when they find out, they will pass a LAW that requires all convicted paedophiles to be either given a full life sentence or take a voluntary chemical castration.
p.s. This might – laughably – be challenged under the liberal “human rights” laws that are usually passed by heads of countries who have lawyers in power : Trudeau in Canada and Blair in the UK.: they are always a can of worms and create endless amounts of work for all those unemployed lawyers that keep being churned out by money hungry universities. The legal pox continues to spread !
CHARITIES – THE NEW GOLD RUSH
Whenever I am in the U.K. , it seems that about every half hour somebody on the television is asking for money; irrespective of whatever the charity is, it seems to come over as the same pitch: “give me munny” to save one eyed flys or three toes ants, or whatever. The fact is that getting a front office job in a charity is like winning the lottery: half a million dollars for David Miliband to effectively be a public/human relations manager for a charity is nice cake if you can get it !, and which will no doubt allow him to return to politics after his brother has successfully sunk all chances of labour being elected at the next vote.
MODERN DAY NURSING
I have no idea what the problem is with modern day nurses: possibly they are in it for the money rather than in it as a vocation; a lack of basic training such as being trained to be hands-on with patients, touch them, feel them, include changing a few bed pans in their university training, or giving a sponge bath to a few more patients; nurses appear to be tuned into WIIFM (what’s in it for me) more than into NURSING patients…too much time spent BS’ing at the nurses stations or around computers that show vital signs but which cannot tell them when a patient needs to go to the bathroom or is desperately thirsty or is in pain. Sticking a drip full of morphine on your arm and telling you to just keep pumping any time you have pain is not nursing!!
The whole system is corrupt and needs a humanitarian overhaul !
NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
Due to the currant financial situation in the United Kingdom, created by the long recession since 2008, her Majesty’s government has decided to implement a scheme to place workers of 50 years of age or older, into early retirement, thus cutting down on current unemployment levels and creating work for younger members of society who are now unemployed.
The name of the new program is called the Retire Aged People Early program, or R.A.P.E. for short.
People who have been selected for the R.A.P.E. program may apply to the Government to be considered for second phase assistance through the Special Help After Forced Termination program or S.H.A.F.T.
Those people fortunate enough to have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under a subsequent program called the
System Covering Retired Early Workers called S.C.R.E.W. for short.
A younger “senior” may only be R.A.P.E.d, once, S.H.A.F.T.ed twice, and S.C.R.E.W.ed. just as often as the government deems appropriate.
Those persons who have been R.A.P.E.D. could have received
Additional Income for Dependants and Spouse; A.I.D.S. for short or, they could also have been given H.E.R.P.E.S., sometimes called the Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance.
Her Majesty’s Government wishes to advise all recipients under this program, that they may not be SCREWED or SHAFTED any further, however the good news is that persons who are not RAPED and who are staying on program, will qualify for the Special High Intensity Training program, sometimes called S.H.I.T.
Her Majesty’s Government has always prided itself on the amount of S.H.I.T. that it has given its citizens!
Should any citizens on the program feel that they are not getting enough S.H.I.T., please contact your local member of parliament who has been well trained to give you all the S.H.I.T. you can handle !!
Yours Sincerely
EVIL
The committee for the Economic Value of Individual Lives.
p.s. Due to recent budget cuts and the rising costs of electricity, gas and oil, as well as the current economic climate where we all have to tighten our belts, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has had to be turned OFF.
Author unknown
VIRTUAL FACTORIES
Many years ago I formulated the concept of “smokeless factories;” an assessment of the value of attracting people on retirement pensions, as also people with independent sources of income to locate in any country/state/province. Essentially, having people on pension/independent incomes are equivalent to having people on good pay working in prime jobs (i.e. not in the service industries)
The old formula was that for every worker employed in prime jobs 9-10 service jobs were created (lawyers, dentists, construction, retail, banking, etc, etc. etc.) however the old rule might just be outdated, as the percentage of people employed in the service industry in the U.S.A. today, for example, is said to be closer to 80% of the non-farm workforce.
Ergo, for every 10,000 people on independent incomes (pensions, investment income, etc) who locate to a foreign country there will be a knock-on effect of 100,000- 500,000 additional jobs created in the service sector… mind boggling isn’t it !!
As Spain and Portugal have fared badly since 2008, it is easy to assume that 100% of the decline was caused by the financial collapse, however, in the same period, the value of the pound
versus the Euro also collapsed, and many retirees pensions shrank so much that they returned back to the U.K., taking with them their pensions and the multiplier effect of their independent incomes, thus accelerating the decline of the “Sunshine” economies.
p.s. If France’s Francoise Hollande can ever get his mind off sex for a few minutes, he might realise how much harm he is doing to the French economy by driving his wealthy citizens out of France with his 90% tax rates.
THE PROBLEM WITH LABOUR GOVERNMENTS
In Greece in 2012 there were 3.8 million people working while there were 4.1 million unemployed. Greece is a prime example of Margaret Thatcher’s oft quoted statement: “The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money”
TRUECYNIC 