Penury, Poverty and pass the Crystal, Darling!

Wow, it's been a week since the last post. How time flies when you're having fun........ten to fifteen times a day ;-o.

I doubt that you'd trade your sex life for ours' but, if what's said is true, the average 'settled down' human couple have sex two to three times a week that's, say, 156 times a year plus two for the extra one on your birthdays. That's only about ten to twelve day's worth for us. You can see why we only do it for a short time, you'd be dead from exhaustion if you tried to keep that rate up all year. It also helps that there's nothing to get 'sore' :) It's been like one of those Eastern European porn movies here, you know, 50 or a hundred couples all making out in some big house with 400 square feet of mattresses on the floor, except, while some hot shot with a $3,000 Sony Hi Def Camera is actually filming it all, in all its sordid glory, I can't see 100 or more copulating penguins quite 'cutting it' with US adolescent males somehow, even the lovers of the 'skinny kid gets f**ked in the classroom by the grossly overweight teacher' variety!

Stopped by a couple of news sites today. Had a look at the UK Chancellor's budget for the coming year. It helps because I then know what mood to try to get into for MG's next email after today. Should I be 'well that wasn't so bad and it would be quite good really if you'd cut out the booze and the fags' or do I need to go into life reinforcing mode to counter the 'it's awful, life's not worth living' tones of the missives? Well, this year I'll need to find something different. Personally he comes out about even; the booze and fags elements are still there but otherwise he's largely unaffected by what's being proposed, no benefits but conversely no major disbenefits either. While interest rates remain so low, he is, as they say there, quids in! His mortgage has gone down by about 40-50% over the past 9 months or so, so 'cash' is accumulating. What's strange, and I wonder if this isn't happening all over, is that, unlike his usual behaviour in the light of a windfall, he's not spending it. No tales of Krug and oysters, no booking flights to Mauritius, no popping off to the 'The Ivy' for a spot of lunch with anyone he can find to bear his company for a couple of hours.

However what is alarming is the projected increase in the 'National Debt' and how much of this might be attributable to the grand bail-out of the banks. That is likely to make him sick, very sick indeed! A projection that over the next 5-10 years the National Debt, ie how much the government/treasury/country owes, will rise to at least 70% of gross annual domestic product and could top 100% is surely frightening. The interest payments alone are mindnumbing! The Brits (and the Americans and the Germans etc etc etc) will be paying this off in increased taxation and increased interest rates for years, perhaps decades to come. Previously, only in war were such figures the norm. And why? Because a few fat cats gambled and were not willing to accept they lost! Went 'cap in hand', sycophantically preaching that 'it wasn't our fault, guv, spare a few coppers for a cup o' char', and worse, were actually listened to! At the moment, every man, woman and child in the UK 'owes' more than £16,000 (say $24,000). After today's budget, what will they owe in 2015. And what for?

It is something which I have never understood about human society. Wherever you look, whenever you look, the old song still rings so true: "It's the rich wot get the pleasure, it's the poor wot get the blame. It's the same the whole world over; it's such a bleedin' shame" Although perhaps we should substitute 'powerful' for 'rich' since the two words are synonomous nowadays!

If you seek the overthrow of capitalism, now surely is the time to make the attempt. Just a pity the Chinese and Russians aren't going to support you :)