Everything You Hate About You

"When you list all the qualities that you despise And you realise You're describing yourself " - S. Hogarth

It has been a while since i pondered some of the less important things in life, but recently i have noticed a shift in people which in turn led me to look into the mirror. As i have grown older i have become more cynical towards life, people and the interactions between the two, I have also become less and less tolerant towards the idealistic points of view of the younger generation. Upon realising this I began to postulate the cause & came to the conclusion that my intolerance of 'the perfect world' is not down to cynicism, but due to the painful reminder that i once held the same views, but that life's twists and turns have devoid me of them ever becoming a reality.

When we are young we hold to dreams of a better world, without poverty, without racism, without fear. Then we slowly have those dreams eroded by life. Yes charity is a great thing, indeed lets make poverty history, pity the starving, support the poor and destitute. These are the voices of the young, these hopes and optimism that we can make a difference, but then we start to earn, we struggle with mortgage repayments & use our very limited spare cash on a few special things. I have started to wonder why I should go to work all day to pay for the starving, the poor & the under privileged, and i think i have found why.

I am unequivocally sick to death of scroungers! I feel that the moaning dole bludger's, the single mothers, the disabled and every other drain on my pocket have diminished the needs of the truly destitute to a point where many feel that charity donations are now paid in their income tax. I already support a range of charities such as the I can't be bothered to get a job foundation, the Because I'm a worthless tramp with 5 kids by 5 blokes you have to support me charity, and my personal favorite the I broke the law and now feel society owes me something funding body.

I am traveled thanks to hard working parents who were generous enough to allow me the opportunities to see much of our world, I have seen the starving in Africa, I have seen the poor in Egypt, and although i sympathise with the cards life has dealt them I will no longer give up my hard earned for them, not while i give up so much of it for western societies dregs.

So I propose something to any and all who read this blog, selective taxation. If you are a tax payer read on... if your not stop reading and go get a job, you shouldn't be able to afford the Internet anyway. I suggest that we should be allowed to select the charities our taxes to towards. That unemployment agencies should be a charitable organisation that is only able to hand out that which it has received in donations. I am not against income tax in its essence, but i do wish i could say no to certain things. If $5 of my income tax is going towards people on social welfare in a country where work is available then i would like to opt out and give that $5 to something i feel needs funding such as children with cancer.

In my country the government are giving more and more to those who don't and taking more and more from those who do, this is wrong & tax payers should not have to foot the bill for a day spent eating McDonald's, watching Jerry Springer & filling out more claim forms from the social services. The simple argument is this... I work, You don't why should i pay for you to have an equal quality of life to me? now the dole scroungers (unemployed) will argue that they don't and that i should try living on what they do, well bad news I'm afraid dole bludgers, i have, and i do. My income does not exceed many of the households who live on social handouts, so stop bloody moaning and get a job, that will cut my income tax and you will be helping me have a better standard of living, but hell will freeze over before you do that wont it?

The only solution is revolution, stop paying your taxes, on mass, today. The worlds governments are going to find it very hard to pay outgoings of benefits with the income from taxation, then and only then will they see that tax payers are like anything, if you keep bleeding them they will die then you will be left with nothing.

It's been a disjointed post i know, but i have many things rattling inside my head at the moment so settle in for a few more over the coming weeks as i attempt to put the world to rights.