Dear Reader,
How are we today? Now, I am going to discuss something a little 'off the cuff' for me. I want to talk about the 'recession' and how it is affecting everyone. Why do I? Well quite simply because I find it hard to believe that most did not see it coming! I have only been in business for 6 years now and I am sure some would say I have quite an advantage on seeing what is going on before most as I answer the phones for such a diversity of companies. Even so, time has proven that for every boom there has to be a bust. Same as logic telling us that what goes up, must come down. The climate is not unsurprising at all as we have all been cohersed into becoming a nation of creditors. The banks gave away credit cards like they were sweets in a candy store even supplying them to people as young as 16! The suppliers of home furnishings gave the 'buy now pay 2010' and petrol and oil started to become a comodity worthy of fighting for, literally! While I am not a financial wizard by any means, I could see this 'accident' slowly happening before my very eyes and I am sure there are alot of others who could to. Then why did it not stop before it got to this point?
120 families loosing their homes every week, thousands of Polish immagrants sleeping on the streets, SME business' going bust as the fat cats drain any resources from our financial support systems and many families with parents unemployed over Xmas. Does this make you as angry as I am? I am sure it does. Can we do anything about it? Probably not. My business is slowly diminishing in size and profit but will the banks give me financial support to keep going, to keep providing an excellent service to industries who need our help to grow? Well I think we all know the answer to that one. Will they help out the banks and bigger organisations who need them, yes of course they will. I understand they need to keep the people employed and that is all good, but they need to trickle some of this 'help' to the smaller business who are just as much a back bone to this country as the larger ones.
And I haven't even touched on the other poor countries affected by this situation such as China, America, Germany, Iceland, Spain....the list is endless. All because the people who should have, didn't see it coming, when I did! Did you?
Shelley x
3 comments:
Hi Shelley..
I think that a great many people did "see" this coming, but as the old saying goes "Don't fix what is not broken!"
Now it is broken and there is no quick fix to help those families that need it most, or the businesses that are suffering.
Some would say that this is a course that is needed, even necessary to shape and build a better UK. It is likely to get worse before anything gets better and with this in mind businesses need to make choices to help deal with the difficulties and to try and minimise the effects on them and the employees who rely on them.
The company I work for have taken on more work since the financial situation started, this is due to company's making choices to downsize and cut costs.
From a personal point of view, its horrible to see friends and people whom I care for without work, i am grateful for my job and i intend to do all i can to help the people around me have a good Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you....
Lee
Dear Lee,
Thank you for commenting. I agree we need such a course for the world to turn, it's just a shame it has had to be so viscious on those who depend most. I'm not talking about people who claim benefits as this may not affect them so much (except the cost of living going up of course) but those probably much like you and I who work very hard to make a menial living but do so much good. The struggle of SME's today is hard enough without being 'trampled on' by such events. I suppose I speak from the heart at most times and this may come across slightly emotional. But this is about me and my business, my families future, and my home.
You are so right in saying the course has to run but should it have been left to be so big and impactial on us?
Shelley x
Hi Shelley, reading as promised!
I think that a good deal of this was planned. Perhaps not the complete fiscal destruction of a nation - but when you have a Prime Minister who was originally hard-left, and many members of his Cabinet the same, you do start to wonder.
Once you add together all the little things - high taxation, reduction of civil liberties, increased legislation - what you end up with is a Government seeking to control.
A cowed populace is easier to control, because people who aren't worried for their jobs, homes and futures are more likely to start thinking about their politicians.
They WANT us depressed, scared and fearing for everything. That way they can provide it (look at the increase in those eligible for some form of benefits).
It's all a scam, with control being the endgame.
Look out for the grand finale - the imposition of the Civil Contingencies Act. Coming soon to a country near you.
D
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