Hurrah, these bricks sure are tasty!
Stepping away from all things Kardashian, it’s becoming
more and more transparent watching how the government is financially shafting
us all. Whether you have any money or not, they are increasingly finding ways
for you to spend and be taxed on it. In return we’re sold a vision of bricks
and mortar as food.
Hurrah! Die mörtel ist alle!
Hang on - I think I broke my tooth on a door handle.
Are you are a homiliionare? Yes? Well then, that’s the
rest of your financial life sorted out, Phew! Well, I’m happily not a homillionare
or a homomillionare. The 20 year old equivalent of myself today only has a
real future of homelessness and not so much as a Walk-in centre to their name.
(Of course by then Theresa May will have implemented her far-reaching
surveillance to stop those awful terrorists. A handy offshoot being that it will
be a great tax pull as you are questioned by the Inland Revenue for using your
debit card).
Between now and your old age – i.e. the time you can cash
your house in - there will already be a whole host of stealth financial
legislation to ease a continuing financially crippled system (hang on it can’t
be financially crippled - I own my own 'studio' flat in Wigan. And it’s already worth
£750.000 !!!). I’m sorry, you won’t be able to eat your house after all. That’s
all part of the lie we’re caught up in.
What will the government do when they’ve exhausted Capital
Gains Tax (or taxing the tax you’ve already been taxed on), Bedroom tax (Duh),
Window tax (Duh), Poll Tax (you can’t vote if you’re poor) Stamp duty (what
stamps? Green Shield?) VAT (Erm.. value?). And the beat goes on.
The transparency of the financial system for the poor (and
by poor I mean anyone who owns a home worth more that 2 grand) means that you
will be hounded as time goes on when the government has to find more and more ways
to generate capital. The only place they can get more capital from is – you.
Your capital. Not by raising taxes, but by introducing more. And you’ll accept
it and move on because, well, you have
no choice really, do you?
To live in any country is to be subservient to its elected
government - we all know that because we elected them. But the question of
social support or, lord forbid - reform, is now moot. It’s gone into reversal
with the advent of the surveillance laws. Laws which themselves are used to
generate income, thus rendering all homeowners
as the new poor. As we know every Englishman’s home is his castle. Hence all
those horse brasses and faux stone chimneystacks. I’m sure English women may have a subtler approach, but
as the trappings of what once were working class cultural tastes subside into
an acquired version of yesterdays nouveau riche (get your arse off there – that
countertop’s genuine granite) so the
myth betrays us. Let’s face it, if someone said when I was a child that one day
I would be living in a one million pound bedsit I’d never have believed them. (Yeah,
and I’ll be James Bond one day too) But that was in 1970 when today's one
million pound home was only four and six and a loaf of bread a tanner. Financial
deception abounds. I can almost hear the economist Keynes turning in his gay grave.
Hurrah! Die Mortel ist alle!
(Hurray, the cement has gone) is of course a shout back to the anti-Third Reich
propagandist, John Heartfield. Although Nazi Germany appeared affluent when Goering stated in 1935 that iron ore was
making the Reich strong, Heartfield parodied him because, well, at the end of the day
people couldn’t eat iron ore. (But come on - they had money in their pockets
and new autobahns – so things were definitely
on the up!) The good old Nazis were excellent propagandists. They conned an
entire nation into believing that they had never had it so good (a sentiment
later picked up by tory PM Harold Macmillan). After a disastrous recession in Germany people wanted to believe anything, especially
when they had real results (did I already mention motorways?) Well, the Reich
also said that every family would have a Volkswagen Beetle to drive on the new
motorways and that didn’t happen. But at least they didn’t sell everyone a
Volkswagen on higher purchase.
Now, replace the image of Goering with that of The Right Honorable
George Osborne MP and think again about house prices
Now, replace the image of Goering with that of The Right Honorable
George Osborne MP and think again about house prices. Remember, an empire only feels good when you are told so by
the leaders and their cohorts. And you now own your own house. And another one in
Spain! All on a mortgage. Hurrah!
The problem for Keynes was finding a ‘working class’ who would
accept regulated wages. This was not to be the case - hence the continual increase in taxes since the 1930’s. Keynes never factored in Thatcher’s vision of the
‘free economy’ as much as he could visulise the emptying of the fire-grates of
Treblinka seven years later. But the ideas about workers pay that
Keynes proposed was put into place by western societies - something which was
extorted by every government since. It was also based on an early 20th
century model of industrial production which has now ended. Now, the only form of
empowerment for the 'poor' is to give them their own houses. Well not give exactly - mortgage to them by a
corrupt financial system. Hurrah! This makes the banker rich.
And when the banks fail, who bails them out?
And when the banks fail, who bails them out?
Hurrah! We the people!
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