OK Then, Here's One ..

OK, tell me this ..
Why, when the single most important thing, above all else in this world that matters to us and the only thing that really means anything, is people, we treat the people that look after people like second class citizens? From doctors and nurses to surgeons and carers, we let successive governments treat them like a commodity to be bought and sold at the cheapest possible rate and think that it is alright to do so! For so long now we have heard the plight of poorly paid, overworked doctors and nurses and yet still they have to fight to just get the minimum allowable pay rises and under the the average inflation rate!
What else is there in this world but people? There are things, lots of things, things without emotion or feeling. Inanimate objects that we buy to satisfy our lust for possessions, things to own and have more of than others. What is that all about then? Since when has your car given a tinkers cuss as to whether you are happy or healthy? When was the last time your iPod helped you come to terms with losing a loved one? At what point in your life did that second house in the country take your festering appendix out? Get with the program people! Someone somewhere must realise that, if it wasn't for the people in this world, bugger all else would matter! What about carers? These are people who look after relatives and the infirm without even the recognition of actually doing anything! They receive very little (in some cases, none) help from the government, financially or otherwise and a lot just fade away only to die not long after their charge.
This whole damn world needs a kick so far up its arse that it could tie the laces with its tongue!
There is a surplus of 500 million quid (apparently) in the NHS coffers from all the cutbacks and redundances in the NHS (less beds, less nurses, fewer doctors etc.) the least we could expect is to at least give those, that can still manage to care after all that, a decent pay increase??
And we all know the likelyhood of that, don't we?!
Grrrr!
Right, I'm off now to go and buy something superfluous and expensive, see if I can make myself feel better about it all ...
Back soon ..



