The UK spends £20bn a year on these sickness and disability benefits - £5bn less than the 'loan' fund it donated to the banking sector in just one day. Meanwhile new cash injected into the Social Fund – a source of interest-free loans for people on low incomes, including grants to help the mentally ill return to the community and emergency loans to re-house families who've lost their homes due to fire or flood – stood at just £81m for the whole year.

Whilst there has been a little talk about more regulation, nobody has stood up in parliament and called for a major rethink about the way we run our economy. And no wonder – all their pensions are linked to the value of shares in the very businesses the government is propping up!

But the hypocrisy doesn't stop there. For years we heard the same old story about how there's never any money for a liveable benefits system or a decent minimum wage, but somehow UK plc finds billions of spare cash to support corrupt businesses that are in a mess only because of a greed that has benefited no one but their shareholders. For years we've heard the mantra that the free market must be allowed to run unfettered – yet the most 'capitalist' governments are nationalising huge companies left, right and centre. It just goes to show that capitalism is a myth and the sooner we stop wasting money propping up a failed system that will never work - the better.

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news647.htm

Just how much more are we going to take of this crap? 

Trouble is we are not going to end up with capitalism failing to bring in any form of improvment, what we are seeign in action is captalism failing to bring in totalitarian absoloutism, we are seeing the beggining of police juntas, yet the media is so blinkered it won't even ask the questions that need asking let alone propose any conclusion that is not pre-approved. 

So if one is a banker or more accuratly a money changer, one can scrounge of the state as much as one wish, yet if one is starving and dying of hyperthermia one has to stop being a burden on the state .... well apparently banks are 5bn more of a burden in one day than anyone on welfare is in a year ..... so who should we be attacking and villifying in the popular media? 

As we approach a winter with quickly rising fuel bills, so those on state benefits are worse off than ever, as those on the poverty line struggle to survive, we see those who have created these false emergancies, getting bailed out, energy chiefs boasting that a harsh winter will mean record profits ..... the people who suffer from these bansk failing are the average workers, the employees who now face a winter potentially dependent on state benefits, as recipients of said benefits now cross class divisions in ways unprecedented before, we now see just how real the division between bourgoisie and proletariat is. 

Maybe if poverty striken folks all die from cold, starvation, suicide and the like we will generate enough money to bail out any bank and corporation that fails .... the image of capital surviving on the bodies of the working folks has never been more vivid.

Maybe one day these diseased cancers on society will learn money is not the reason for living and can not be taken with you. Perhaps they will ask themselves who it was according to Christian Theology (a religion most claim lip service to) that Jesus threw out of the temple.