by Roger Grant

Created on: December 13, 2009   Last Updated: December 14, 2009

It would have been more engaging to ask if governments have the will needed to stop creating more poverty.

Governments not only do not have the will to do so, they do not want to and have no intention to try either. It is no secret that our elected officials the world over do not have their first loyalty to the electorate but serve other masters.Did someone say money? I concur. Their creative orbit revolves around one philosophy and that is "tax and spend" and we all know who has to pay no matter how incompetent our representatives are.

 Governments are run by politicians who are high on the totem pole of the "most reviled profession". Politicians in my opinion are the purveyors of misery,and if this is not so someone should bring the evidence to the contrary.Administration after administration have only succeeded in piling on more laws and burdens upon the average man.

The biggest contributor to poverty in the world is the universal application of the minimum wage. The minimum wage is equal to the slop they used to serve the slaves to provide them with enough energy to keep them working. Every other wage is graded off the minimum wage and renumeration does not usually keep step with inflation.

The political scientists in the best of our Ivy League Universities know that, no one can live with their dignity intact on these kind of salaries. The Russians called them the lumpen proletariat's, while the Capitalist say the working class but the real old fashion word is more apt. They believe they are special and entitled and the rest of us are all peasants.

The same ones whom you are  asking, do they have the will to end poverty are the same ones who have created it, proliferated it and are sustaining it. How? Through their kinship with commerce and industry which is slanted in the favour of the wealthy at the expense of the masses.

Look at the way contracts are drawn up and accepted as legally binding documents. They are written by the same lawyers who are usually politicians or aspiring politicians, who write them to benefit their clients, not the poor souls who are agreeing to them.

These contracts are infamously one sided and covertly dishonest and designed to punish the unsuspecting simpletons who get into them.The freedom is usually, the freedom to enter, but not to depart, just like people who join the mafia.

Also through the misuse of tax payer money for all sort of excesses which does not translate into a better life for you and me such as showpiece projects, earmarks (favours for friends), interference in other countries affairs and wars with imperial designs.

The general ethos of governments which has resulted in the commercialisation of society, instead of treating people like human beings with real feelings is their legacy to mankind and what a sorry one it has been.Failure on a massive scale where widespread poverty is just one of the many features.

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