The Rich Can't Get Richer without the Little Man

The Rich Can't Get Richer without the Little Man

I don't normally discuss these

subjects on my blog but I am getting frustrated.

These companies are making huge profits

but still making staff redundant.

Do they not realise that if every company

makes more and more staff redundant

then there won't be anyone to buy anything.

The man at the bottom of the pile needs

to have a job to buy the things they are selling.

If they aren't in jobs then they won't be able

to sell any of them and then they won't

make ANY PROFITS!!!!!!!!

I get so frustrated when companies

post their profits and they are HUGE,

then a couple of months later they say

they need to streamline the business

or move the business to a country where

wages are cheaper.

If you move to a country that is cheaper

their wages go up and the people who

were in jobs who bought your product can't

buy it anymore.

Then all the happens is everything comes

to ahead and we have a world crash again.

It just seems like at the moment the rich are

getting richer.

The unemployment figures are all false as well.

I know someone who is on Job Seekers.

They go 3 times a week and sit for 2 1/2 hours

at a time to search for jobs.

They are being told to apply for jobs that are

for 7 hours a week.

Less than 16 hours and they will loose all their benefits.

Can you please tell me how you feed and house a family

on £50.40 a week?

If they don't apply and attend the interviews etc

they will be sanctioned and reduced even further.

They are attending a college course and volunteering

to get experience to have a better chance at a job.

It's not as though they aren't doing anything.

I am disabled and will suffer from these

nasty diseases for the rest of my life.

I will probably live the rest of my life

in pain as I do everyday at the moment.

I am unable to drive anymore and

am unable to use public transport

so I spend most of my life at home.

I have come to terms with that.

I am lucky enough to receive one of the benefits

but I didn't get that easily.

My husband had to spend hours filling in forms

for me.

My dad had to take me to assessments.

I didn't get the pip and even if I had I would

of only received £22 a week.

It's not the figures bounced about that most

people get.

I also get reviewed on a regular basis and have

to go through the whole process all over again.

Each time not knowing if I am going to end up with nothing.

I also have to live with the constant threat of being

spied on. I am doing nothing wrong and have

nothing to hide but you see what it feels like

to have a car sat outside your house for 3 hours

at a time.

And no that isn't paranoia, family, friends and other

people passing my house have noticed it.

Even the postman has commented.

Lots of people out there are told they aren't sick enough

to get pip or esa.

They go to Job Seekers and are told they are too sick

to get Job Seekers so they are given nothing.

Lots of these people have given up and committed suicide.

All the while the people who are rich have people

who make sure they pay as little tax as possible.

Some don't pay any tax at all.

Quite a lot of the companies don't pay any tax either.

They pay their employees as little as possible,

expect them to work as many hours as possible for free.

Your salaried, if you want to get anywhere in

the company you better offer your time for free.

They expect less staff to do the work of all the

people they have made redundant so the

company that doesn't pay any taxes

can make even more profits and can pay

huger pay and bonuses to the top staff

and the share holders that don't pay tax either.

The man doing all the stupid hours is paying

most of his wages to the tax man

and doing as many hours as possible hoping he

can keep his job as so many people are losing theirs.

He is lucky to be in a job so he needs to do

everything he can to keep it.

Then he looses his job and their isn't anyone to

buy anything and the company goes out of

business but the rich man has loads of money

in his account so he doesn't CARE!

Sorry I had to rant.

I care about others!

I give what I can to others.

When I can't we give all my sons

clothes and shoes to friends that

can't afford.

I look after animals that can't be in the day

 by their owners because

they have to go out to work.

I don't charge for it I do it because I can.

I always smile and say good morning.

It doesn't cost anything.

If someone wants to stop for a chat I do.

I have quite a few people I don't really know

but I know they live on their own and they stop

and talk to me everyday.

I know that little chat I have with them makes a difference

to them.

It's only a small thing but it makes a difference.

Everyone round here has to go out to work so all

their parcels come to my house.

They know I am usually in and in means that they

don't have to worry.

A recent friend has to work over Christmas and

I heard she might not be able to get someone

to look after her daughter so I offered for her to come here.

They are only super little things but they are the little

things I can do.

If companies thought more about what they could do

for their staff and the community they live in then

the world would be a better place.

When you go out tomorrow smile and say

good morning to someone.

It could make the difference to their day!