A Sign the Great Depression Isn't on Us Yet

Listened to the radio lately? Watched TV? Read a newspaper? Then you'll know that we're in a recession and that Britain is doomed and the world is going to crash by the weight of it's own greed.

Except it isn't is it?

The media, as they always do, have blown the situation out of all proportion to scare the masses and confuse the public.
Just today I was listening to the news on Radio 1 and a piece was on about the soaring levels of unemployment in the country, fair enough I thought, it is on the rise. Then it went on to speak to a household of twenty-somethings explaining that they could not get a job, again fair enough I thought, jobs aren't always easy to secure. But then it went on to point out the extent of their poverty, apparently most nights they have to go the lengths of eating pasta, flavoured with "Jack Daniels". Hang on?! Jack Daniels?! Is this this what poverty means now-a-days, cooking with name brand Whiskey. Call me skeptical but I couldn't help thinking times weren't maybe as hard on these people as the piece was trying to make out.

Another pudding in which the proof sits that we aren't as hard up as a country as we're said to be is comic relief. This year once again the brilliant boys and girls who make up red nose day did another fantastic job and raised more money that ever. Showing once again that money can still flow from the back pocket of us decent folk and that ultimately, as a country, we can afford it.

If you did watch comic relief this year, you will no doubt have seen what real poverty and pain is and that it is all over the world, in England, Africa, everywhere. It always has been and it always will be. But don't worry the world isn't going to end quite yet. Nothing has changed drastically, as history shows, the rich get richer and the poor as a majority get by.

Until next time, stay classy world.