Tuesday 12 May 2009

Trust and Hypocrisy


Robert Peston's blog, Royal Mail and HMG's creative accounting, highlights the scandal and hypocrisy of a Government on the one hand preaching an era of 'regaining trust', whilst on the other plotting to fiddle the Government's financial figures (no - not their expenses this time) and to steal more tax-payers money.  They want to make it look as it they are paying some of their massive national debt off - and to do this are planning to take on their £20bn of assets (and sell them) but place their pension liabilities into the public pension scheme (as it's not counted in the national debt figure)!

This would overburden future tax payers with even more liability by way of more unfunded public pensions debt (already over £650bn a year - and yet another 50% of GDP)!  Contrary to popular belief, national insurance does not go into an individual 'savings pot for your retirement' and pensions are paid via a "pay-as-you-go" system.  Not a great position to be in, especially with the demographic shift now occurring ... !

Credit crunch, tax crunch, pension crunch ... all entirely predictable I'm afraid until 21st century leadership and a more sustainable form of 'economics' is applied ... and do we TRUST those currently in positions of power to take responsibility and to do what is right?  I think they've already answered this one for us ...

We're going to have to take responsibility for doing this ourselves ...



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Comment 72 (Leanomist)

Another word for this would be HYPOCRISY.

On the day the Government HAD TO APOLOGISE about the EXPENSES FIASCO, and state they need to REGAIN THE TRUST OF THE PUBLIC, they were busy in the background working out MORE WAYS TO FIDDLE THE FIGURES (just like the bankers). In this case they want to make out they are starting to pay off national debt, when they are actually stealing yet more money from ordinary taxpayers for generations to come - see summary below:

"Well, the logic of ministers appears to be that we won't notice we've taken on this £30bn burden, because the government's commitment to pay pensions to public-sector workers in unfunded pay-as-you-go schemes - which is what the Royal Mail one will become - is not part of the national debt ... the total liability of unfunded public service occupational pension schemes as at 31 March 2006 was £650bn - or about 50% of GDP in that year ... and the liability will be much bigger now!"

This is another disgraceful example of POWEROMICS* at work, but it has not gone unnoticed or unreported. To further overburden an already unfunded "pay-as-you-go" government pension scheme at this point in time, with the demographics shift about to occur, is frankly dishonorable and scandalous ... and to do this in the hope we won't notice is equally scandalous too!

HMG have already started to show what they see as a 'new era' of responsibility and the way they PLAN TO REGAIN TRUST - THROUGH SPIN'! Do leopard's change their spots? Does a change of 'color' result in a chameleon changing its DNA?

I think not - and neither will most ordinary people - however much spin they put on it! Let's start to tell more people about the real story and about the independent blogs that are telling it. We need to use the internet to join forces and create a community of strength ... as this is the only way people in positions of power take notice!

For instance take a look at the BLOG at http://poweromics.blogspot.com ... set up to highlight more examples of the application of POWEROMICS (which includes the BBC too**) and to point to other independent sites too. 


David Clift
a Future 500 leader

* POWEROMICS = People use position and power for their own personal gain, based on poor moral values, self interest and greed. 

** Let's see if the BBC remove this post because of this point. I'll tell you if they do.





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Comment 85 (bobinsussex)


What else has this government shoved under the carpet? It is time GB and his bunch of freeloaders came clean and opened the accounts to the nation so we can all see the risk they have exposed us, our children and their children to. 100 years ago we would all have taken to the streets with arms to remove this lot. Has apathy destroyed patriatism?



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Comment 109 (leanomist) - Removed by the BBC!


bobinsussex (85) has hit the nail on the head, and just to repeat it again:

"... It is time GB and his bunch of freeloaders came clean and opened the accounts to the nation so we can all see the risk they have exposed us, our children and their children to. 100 years ago we would all have taken to the streets with arms to remove this lot. Has apathy destroyed patriatism ...? "

Apathy, one aspect of Ignoromics*, will allow Poweromics** to destroy our nation, and this needs to change ... for instance take a look at the Poweromics blog at

http://poweromics.blogspot.com 

... and let's start to remove it so, so we can change things for the better!

David Clift, a Future 500 Leader


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Comment 130 (Leanomist)


writingsonthewall (comment 121) ...


Shall we look at the BBC whilst we're at it too, as it's probably slightly different ... let's ask a few more questions:


1. Where do the BBC get their money from? Answer = us, the tax payer.

2. Who decides the amount tax payers pay? Answer = the Government.

3. Who decides the future of the BBC? Answer = the Government.

Can anyone see a way the Government may also have a little influence over the BBC and its reporting too? 


Let's ask a couple more questions ...


4. Where did Lord Burt go to after leaving the BBC? Answer: The Government.

5. What was he doing as a close aide to Tony Blair? Answer: He wouldn't tell the Select Committee (despite being repeatedly asked)!


Are the BBC really an independent voice carrying out a civic duty for the community (and paid for by us)?


Take a look at the Poweromics* blog (http://poweromics.blogspot.com) if you are as frustrated by all this as me, and want to do something about it too ...



David Clift, a Future 500 Leader


* POWEROMICS = People use position and power for their own personal gain, based on poor moral values, self interest and greed. 

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