Raise the Hammer

Mr Moylek: Maybe you should asking the poor what it is they need, would not that be the appropriate thing to do. People can lose their jobs, they can become sick or injuried and could themselves in a dire situation very fast, it is not always about choices.

So I was doing some research into the French Revolution, as this is what I found out:

There were two bad growing seasons back to back and that many people were struggling. The country was basically bankrupt from its wars with England but King Louie wanted to one up the British so he decided to tax the flour to raise money to send troops to America for the American Revolution.

Since the tax was imposed the poorest could no longer afford to buy flour to make bread thus many were starving, this started to affect the merchant class (middle class), and tempers were rising.

One day around 1500 of the merchant class, many of whom were women marched to the palace and well the rest is history.

The current system does not ask people what they want , it tells them what they need. You would probably be surprised by the answers that people would give.

When I speak about karma, I trying to say that anyone could find themselves in the same situation, through job loss, by becoming sick or injuried and fighting to keep what you worked for. Say it was your family, who do you think would be standing up for you, the system or someone like myself, who advocates that no way should you lose everything just because of circumstances. I am sure that fear plays a big role and people tend to distance themselves from the reality of what could happen.

People fail to really analyse the system and to be honest I think people need to follow a person through the process to truly understand what goes on and how it affects people.

Here is a story that I read in the Toronto Star a while back, the person, university educated, started a business, they had property but for whatever reason the business was failing. This person was not entitled to EI and started on a job search. This person was appling to every type of job. The situation was getting really bad and tried to apply for welfare but was denied as this person was told that they needed to liquid assets, meaning the property, which had been on the market for well over a year. This person was desparate, no money, no help. One cannot take the bricks from a building to buy food.