Gee! 20 Laughs A'Minute
Our wise and wonderful G20 group of world leaders and finance experts have, yet again, handed down their wealth of wisdom to us proles and fools. They are useful however because they give us a laugh a minute and cheer us up.
The first laugh is really in the title G 20. This really means G 2 + 0. But the 20 label gives us a laugh so ok.
We are told that we must be more thrifty and embrace new austerity measures. We must do this because the economy is in a bit of a mess. To get out and away from this mess the big bad public must pull itself up by the bootstraps. The big bad public cannot expect to keep on getting expensive public services. This new austerity is the new game. Whoever said that history does not repeat itself?
We get many laughs from this. The banks and the various financial gambling dens have already been bailed out and saved by a bad public that have been rather good. The thrifty public, like those many older types that saved their money, have already been very very good in that they have agreed. To have their savings dented or destroyed by the banks and the financial gambling dens. We can laugh here so hard and so much that we could even die. Soon.
Austerity has, in the main, been quite normal for most folk in the world. Most folk have been content to be austere and to allow the top 5% to play their gambing games. Most of the ”public”, the vast majority, have already used austerity measures to pay weekly and monthly bills, put food on the home table and to simply get through the family year. We have even been happy to pay more taxes than most big businesses. For certain, big business types pay much less tax than the ”public”.
However this is OK because we all get a chance to have a weekly gamble on the lottery. We all know and understand just how lucky we are for this sense of hope given to us by the big business boys and girls. We laugh at weekends.
We, the big bad public, do understand that the big banking gambling dens cannot pay as much tax as we. That would be unfair and unpractical. So we, the big bad public, will agree to these new austerity measures. We have all had life far too easy over the last few years. Reality has always been something we understand quite well so we are ok.
In the next few years we all understand that we will face more unemployment. But we will go to more second-hand shops and we will work better towards being a sustainable family. We will embrace the new austerity measures. We will even join the Green Party.
Never fear, we working folk are here, to get you big boys and girls out the the double dip drip and the Neuro-Zone. Trust us, the public, we have a long history of this austerity to help society.
We also know that our good business guru, Mauri Pekkarinen, will reward us for our good efforts in unemployment times. He will provide for us some education. OK, we know that the education budgets must be cut and cut again, but still he will provide us austerity people with education. With this education added to the weekly lottery adventure we can all live the good life.
Unemployment?
Nothing. We will laugh at it.
Gee wizz this G20 stuff is a laugh a'minute.
Steve Bowles
