Damn train fares have gone up again
Commuters are a captive market, they have to be at work, they have to travel there and for most that means they have to take the one train service that can get them there on time. Rail price hikes amount to yet another stealth taxation on workers in their twenties and thirties who frankly have enough financial burden being placed on them as it is.
Frankly it’s all just too damn stressful.
Get up, spend an hour or two going to work, spend 8-10 hours working for a living, then another 2 hours getting home. Go online, pay your council tax (substantially increased) pay your gas an electric (oh what a surprise, substantial increase) Pay your increased rent, shop around for a bank that will even consider giving you a mortgage on an annual salary that 10 years ago would have brought you a house outright, pay your phone and internet bills, book your increased price monthly train ticket, sort your insurance, sort your water bill and your bank fees. Do all of this then you can take a look at how much money you don’t have for luxuries you don’t have time for and then try to sleep (forget eating anything that can’t be microwaved). Don’t worry, in a few hours you can get up and spend another 14 hours working & travelling.
Aren’t you lucky you have a job in these troubled times?
Are you?
You could get someone else to do all that for you, spend your day sat on the sofa plugged in to the internet and have more time, less stress and about the same disposable income if you quit smoking (which you will because you no longer need it to control your stress).
After all… having a job is so expensive nowadays.
Why not Nationalise the lot, make the government provide the public with public transport priced for the public, power, housing, heating and water priced for the public and then let everyone get on with doing their jobs and let them earn a bit of cash and have a life. You can jack up income tax all you like so long I as every other little gouge goes the way of the dodo and I can spend the money I earn on what I want to spend it on. After all, the only reason we pay the government is for them to ensure a secure and better life for the citizenry, if they can’t do that then they have failed us on the most fundamental level.
OK perhaps that is somewhat off topic but still, we keep letting this happen in every public service, less staff + less services = more profit = worse value and yet we still have a love affair with the private sector running public services.
We all know it doesn’t work.
Everyone knows the only people who benefit are the shareholders.
When will a party stand up and challenge this rubbish, and if they did, would be have the courage to vote for them, or would we be too scared of their evil lefty ways?
Frankly it’s all just too damn stressful.
Get up, spend an hour or two going to work, spend 8-10 hours working for a living, then another 2 hours getting home. Go online, pay your council tax (substantially increased) pay your gas an electric (oh what a surprise, substantial increase) Pay your increased rent, shop around for a bank that will even consider giving you a mortgage on an annual salary that 10 years ago would have brought you a house outright, pay your phone and internet bills, book your increased price monthly train ticket, sort your insurance, sort your water bill and your bank fees. Do all of this then you can take a look at how much money you don’t have for luxuries you don’t have time for and then try to sleep (forget eating anything that can’t be microwaved). Don’t worry, in a few hours you can get up and spend another 14 hours working & travelling.
Aren’t you lucky you have a job in these troubled times?
Are you?
You could get someone else to do all that for you, spend your day sat on the sofa plugged in to the internet and have more time, less stress and about the same disposable income if you quit smoking (which you will because you no longer need it to control your stress).
After all… having a job is so expensive nowadays.
Why not Nationalise the lot, make the government provide the public with public transport priced for the public, power, housing, heating and water priced for the public and then let everyone get on with doing their jobs and let them earn a bit of cash and have a life. You can jack up income tax all you like so long I as every other little gouge goes the way of the dodo and I can spend the money I earn on what I want to spend it on. After all, the only reason we pay the government is for them to ensure a secure and better life for the citizenry, if they can’t do that then they have failed us on the most fundamental level.
OK perhaps that is somewhat off topic but still, we keep letting this happen in every public service, less staff + less services = more profit = worse value and yet we still have a love affair with the private sector running public services.
We all know it doesn’t work.
Everyone knows the only people who benefit are the shareholders.
When will a party stand up and challenge this rubbish, and if they did, would be have the courage to vote for them, or would we be too scared of their evil lefty ways?