Throwing Pennies at Poor People

With the economy in its current state and being one of the big things in the news recently it would seem like a good idea to write something topical regarding the economy...

(Let me just cut in here and say that I have two or three different articles fully finished and edited on my phone in the notes section, as I occasionally cant sleep at night and would rather kill two birds with one stone then sit their counting sheep. Plus seeing as my phone has a handy notes section that can be blue toothed to my laptop I saw an opportunity to finish this off on my phone and upload it quick and easy ... yeah, it uploaded a screen shot of the stuff to me ¬.¬ God damn it! Sigh... where was I again?)

...Regarding the economy, or rather to finish off this back log, which has been increasing weekly. Therefore I have chosen something which is close to my heart, which of cause is: Money. or rather, liking money, and liking the fact I have money, but apparently this makes me the anti-Christ, sorry I meant 'Middle classed'.

Ammunition 

Middle class people get a bad rap in the news, films and books alike, it is rather unfair. Middle class people aren't evil, nor are we overly rich, just comfortable.

That's not an issue is it? I know I have somewhat of a Posh boy accent but that is just how I was brought up, properly of cause - by my butler mostly - but Jenkins was a splendid fellow teaching me how to speak and direct my words to be heard above the commoners. Clearly I was joking here though I  have been known to never carry anything below a 10p piece in my wallet, preferring to either throw them in the bin or at poor people.

Is that wrong? Does one have an issue with this?
Damn straight you don't have an issue with that, wealthy people aren't evil, they aren't plotting to take over the world or create that super death machine - super death machines are expensive people! what do you expect these people want? Granted for some the world is not enough, but that can be said of everyone - everyone wants something more then they already have: the poor want to become rich and the rich want to become rich, like a scene out of Macbeth, their ambitions ov'r leaps their gains (Fear my A-level misquoting wang!!)

This is not meant in the sense that they are evil, rather that the middle class are consumed by the opinions of the poor creating a illusionary state of mind surrounding them. sure, everyone wants to become wealthy, but why do they hate the rich? they hate the rich for being rich, yet they themselves desire to become rich ... by that analysis every rich person should hate themselves for becoming rich.

Rich people don't hate themselves, far from it (Often too much self love goes public), rich people are happy that they have made it, made it above the sharks an the cut throats, made it into the clouds up on high... But wait what's that being flung at me from down below? Oh its shit, and people wonder why the wealthy can be jaded towards the poor?

Again, I'm by no means rich or wealthy, I'm comfortable in my earnings and current state, also by no means do I think ALL wealthy people are goof people, some really do want to exploit others and build that giant James Bond doomsday machine in their backyard, but why wouldn't you?

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Olympic Special, Special, special ... Potatoe

Another blog per request, this one has been suggested by my co-workers - after a number of twerps and statues against the entirety of the Olympics being in London - clearly hoping I'd make a tit of myself - don't worry I will do, speaking of twitter, https://twitter.com/Drake_Best do it ... ¬.¬

I watched maybe the first opening 20minutes of the opening ceremony, right up to the point where they had 'James Bond and the Queen' parachuting into the stadium, I agree with the look on the queens face through out the majority of it. I'm in no way taking credit for this demotivational caption, this image went viral maybe moments after the screen cap' was taken - not only showing the power of the internet but also a number of disdained people at the Olympic opener. incidentally it is almost impossible to see the opening ceremony on anything like YouTube, as I said I walked out during the parachuter's but I understand I missed J. K. Rolling in cash, do something with harry potter, and also something involving the NHS and sick children. Glad I left when I did.

It can't be denied that there was a lot going on in the Olympics... for roughly £20million you'd bloody well hope so. this isn't the only cost either! That 20million was for the opening ceremony only, this is not counting the cost of building the new stadiums and sports centres where the games will be played out. On top of this. there was the bid itself to get the games in London in the first place. as it stands the cost of the London hosting the Olympics is at £9.4 billion. £9.4 billion (14.5 billion dollars), an almost unfathomable amount in terms of finding something to compare it to. in terms of scale, say we put  this next to a human.

That little caption says, "1 billion dollars", fourteen and a half more of this and you'll slowly begin to imaging what the games have actually cost us. for what you might ask? a couple of shiny medal necklaces. i understand that these shiny medals have a meaning, after all look at war medals, in terms of what they are they're a chunk of metal and ribbon attached but much like with money, we assign worth to these. However Cameron in his typical wisdom has said, this year we aim to win 48medals. then you look at this website - http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/medals - just keep hitting refresh and watch the battle between China and the USA, shocker as per normal, but with the USA and 500 athletics you'd expect them to win something, and with China well ... there was a story about a large number of young children disappearing and being put into Olympic camps, in preparation for the games,seemingly to breed a winning team, and by God have they done that. In the swimming I watch a 14/16 year old girl beat every other athlete in the pool by at least eight feet and the world record by nearly two seconds. 30 medals, maybe, but that's only if: Daily's partner gets it in time for once, Bolt has a heart attack and every Chinese athlete bites it.

It wouldn't have pissed me off so much had, the London Olympics not been hyped into oblivion and stampeded into the ground my commercials and advertising all with an Olympic underline message. "look at us, look at us, we're sponsoring and mentioning the London Olympics in our advertisement, buy our stuff! do it!" especially the commercials to o with the Olympics themselves, promoting watching and going to the Olympics which is near impossible. for starters it costs an arm and a leg, and for your limbs you get entered into a draw to go to any event. which meant you had no idea where or what event you could be watching... unless your an official, or sponsor, or someone deemed of enough "importance" to be given a place for free. then these people don't even have the courtesy to turn up!? importance is an annoyance in itself, yet another thing that is given value by fools, for  17 days there will be next to no news beyond that of the Olympics, but whilst your sitting there watching men and woman run for minerals, men and woman fight against their oppression. The last two years has seen the oppressed take a stand against what is not right and dictator after dictator has tumbled, before the opening ceremony the rebels were beginning their attack on the main capital, now bouncing through the news channels, past the 21 Olympic specific programs there is almost no normal news to be found, even getting the weather is a struggle and don't even get me started on that dopey logo or mascots.

I digress though, much like with the European cup (its a football thing), its easy to get behind the Olympics as opposed to small bitter rivalries there are large country sized rivalries where nations can get behind, I however reserve my seat in having no interest in it, but hey that's just me, otherwise. Woo Team GB (and the tip of Ireland... and sort of Scotland.. for now)

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