We seem to have rather a large number of them now, but not children as the original term denotes, although of them there are a few no doubt. But the number of adults who are behaving like spoilt brats is astounding, and I use the term adult there loosely, because it is a very immature and juvenile group that have moved themselves into position. With An Attitude of Entitlement taking the helm in many a quarter.

Politicians and their Endless Pot of Resources that they keep topping up, making sure your money is No Longer Yours and becomes theirs, and that they always have their hands In Your Pocket, so that they can continue in their quest of Holding Us Back.

People on benefits, and just a general attitude of me, me, me, more, more, more. Which will get worse no doubt as they try to raid anyone they can, and if you keep taking it usually leads to one of two things. Either what you are taking runs out, or where you are taking it from withdraws access. And we now see that’s probably why it was so important to them to make sure people were tied in through intermediaries, so that you are aren’t entirely able to just cut them out of the loop. Clearly in previous more cash-based times, it would have been much easier. Hence why they needed all those middlemen mentioned in Who’s That Trip Trapping On My Bridge, a multi-level system that can’t just be stopped. Imagine a shop, just one premises, just one product and it does ok. But then something happens and it turns out the shop has gone rogue, either by way of shoddy service, goods or a problem, so it needs to be shut. People avoid it, trade drops and it goes bust by way of ‘natural selection’ in the commercial world. Or at least that’s what should happen, things being allowed to run their course and end up where they were meant to through action and consequence.

However, things aren’t allowed to run their natural course, because while that shop was being deceitful, it opened another branch so it could shift responsibility. And then another so that it could get ahead of the talk and create an image of respectability, rather than actually being respectable. That happens a lot with people, they would rather been seen to be doing something than actually doing it, often spending just as much time and effort on the illusion that they would have if they done it for real. Funny and sad in equal measure.

But it is not just time they are spending now, it’s actually people’s money, which they ‘spend’ their time earning, and the government ‘spend’ time and money trying to convince you they are necessary and need more of it. That elaborate set-up is starting to fray at the edges somewhat now it seems, with so many greedy fingers in the pot and money being chucked at everything except what it was appropriated for, it’s being emptied faster than it can be refilled. And that can be said of people’s tolerance and patience as well, that there is only so much people can take, and overlook and excuse before you run out of both. And it really does seem as though that’s what they are pushing for, that the people ‘lose their rag and kick off’ or whatever they want to happen, moving all the pieces into position for the next phase…

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