posted by Trader No 1 on Feb 2
Well folks, have we got ourselves in a pickle or what? In the old days (don’t you just hate it when writers come out with phrases like that?), in the old days there were several so called “Pillars of the Community”.
First there was the local Vicar, (Parish Priest, Rector, the names vary but the post was by and large the same) next there was the local Doctor, the family Solicitor (if you were lucky enough to be able to afford one) and then there was the local Bank Manager. Never mind about “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” these were the boys you didn’t get on the wrong side of if you wanted to make a success of your life and yes, looking back on it, “yours truly” has probably at one time or another annoyed at least one member of all four professions.
However I digress. The point I am making is that society as we know it has changed and no longer are the old rules still in force. This means of course that the new generation of our above mentioned professionals have now assumed their position in society but society it seems no longer has the respect for these professions it once had.
Is there any wonder? Nowadays you have married clergy running off with other peoples husbands / wives, Doctors up in front of the General Medical Council on charges of disrepute, Solicitors serving jail sentences for embezzlement of client funds and then lastly you have the Bank Manager. Now what can we say about our esteemed financial friends that possibly hasn’t been put into print already?
Well as a profession they have almost single handily brought about the worst economic downturn in the last 100 years and the most serious financially challenged times almost since records began and the best part of it all is that having “right royally screwed up” (if you forgive my lapse into colloquialisms) they have the temerity to come “cap in hand” to the rest of us to ask us to bail them out of the mess they have caused and…….to ask that we still pay them their bonuses!
Now perhaps I am getting too “long in the tooth” and have missed something but in my day you got bonuses for a job well done and not the mess these idiots have landed us all in. The trouble is that they know we cannot stand by and let them disappear up their own backsides, despite how tempting the notion would be. They have screwed up so badly that the risk is let them pay for their misdemeanours and watch their business fold and then stand by and watch the rest of society collapse as well.
So as far as Governments are concerned, they cannot stand idly by and watch the financial carnage, they have to be seen to do something…..but still the rest of us will end up paying for it. The sad thing is that (allegedly) we have only just finished paying for World War II so heaven knows how long this is going to take to pay off.
We have not only let down our children by this stupidity but we have mortgaged the future of our children’s children’s children too.
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