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I agree with you completely but what I find hard is people revelling in others having their pay slashed.
In my opinion the world has gone mad. People in the city taking home larger and larger amounts of pay, CEO's etc taking home huge amounts more in real terms than 10 or 20 years ago. Normal workers having their pensions slashed. These new people will be on such low amounts they will barely be able to put much away into a pension anyway.
How on earth as a society are we going to be able to cope in say 50 years time when most of the population have been squashed onto these minimum wages and not made any pension provisions. While some in our society are getting richer and richer. It is almost like we are going backwards as a society and the general worker is getting poorer and suposed to be grateful that they have a job.
Anyway as you probably know I did not agree with the strike, I'm not a militant or left winger either but comments about people should be happy or feel lucky because there are lots that would like their job etc. just seem short sighted. As a society we should all be striving for everyone having a good living and a comfortable life. Not actually enjoying others misfortune.
I am just an ordinary person with an oridinary mortgage working for a company, that I have worked hard for, for 22 years. I happen to live in one of the most expensive parts of the country.
I don't apologise that I worry for people who are young now because salaries are being artificialy forced down by the availabilty of lots of people willing to work for less and in my opinion this is a step backwards for the future of our society.
Anyway that is my political speach over.