Making your Marx (From Stroud News and Journal)

Making your Marx

IT is a bitter world in which we live where the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting fleeced.

The capitalist laws of supply and demand dictate that the people on the wrong side of the national average wage are always destined to lose the battle for a liveable wage because there is always someone there to replace them.

To live a reasonable existence in rip-off Britain they are increasingly forced to beg and borrow from banks and credit card companies to supplement their meagre incomes.

Then once firmly entrenched in debt the friendly conditions that enticed them to borrow in the first place mysteriously disappear and wham bam, they're in hock for life ma'am. It is as depressing as it is inevitable.

It would be interesting to know what proportion of this country's billions of pounds of consumer debt is held by those on incomes below the national average.

Also interesting and probably just as galling, to know how much money the loaning institutions are making from our financial misery with their painfully excessive bank charges and loan interest rates levied from those least able to afford or resist them.

They can only watch on appalled as mealy-mouthed moneymen and financial institutions headed by fat cats cream from the their pockets money with which they can ill-afford to part.

Doubtless someone, somewhere, much holier-than-thou, in fact probably the rich family in the big house on the hill, will be tut-tutting that things would not be this way if only the less well off managed their money better.

It is fair to say those persons ought to be despatched in a tirade of colourful adjectives or forced to part with rather more of their obscene amounts of disposable income.

We live in a country with allegedly the fourth biggest economy in the world. Is it too much to ask for an honest day's wage for an honest day's work?