With the budget looming, we will be hearing much about tax rises and GDP and the state of the economy and using that as a measure of how well Britain is doing and although it may be a fairly useful indicator of a country’s performance, economic performance is not everything.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that economic growth was the priority of her Labour Government but why should the economy be the priority, why not measure how well Britain is doing by using other measures such as how happy we are, or how peaceful, how healthy, life expectancy, wellbeing, access to clean air or effective public services?
At the end of the 14 years of the Conservative Party, one minister said that over 14 years, Britain's GDP had risen consistently but that obviously didn't impress the voters who at the time of the elction gave the Tories the lowest favourability ratings ever and not only kicked them out but booted them to their worst performance in a national poll since 1832.
Effective GDP Growth obviously wasn't enough for UK voters while the NHS was underfunded, police numbers reduced and the price of everything in the shops shot up so how refreshing if instead of boring us with economics and public service cuts and taxes, how about if the Government said they was going to make serving the population their priority.
If strength of the economy was the be all and end all then the worlds largest economies such as the USA, China and Germany should have the happiest people but none of them feature in the top 20 of the World Happiness Index where the top 3 are Finland (46th in Global economies), Denmark (35th) and Iceland (105th) which proves strength of the economy does not result in happier citizens.
At the end, when we look back wistfully, our personal measure of our life will be if we were happy and that should be the priority of the people making the rules and laws we live by because that will be appreciated more than how much they can expanded our GDP by because that won't matter a jot.
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brilliant. the purpose of government should be to make you happy. and your hand in the recipe is irrelevant. not matter how lazy or stupid you are.
ReplyDeletegovernment should make you healthy, happy, provide food, clothing, entertainment, housing, transport, safety, haircuts and dental (you need some real barbers and dentists - the easiest people to spot at disney world are brits because of their hair and teeth, interbred hillbilly teeth). stop spending on police and national defense and divert all funds to making you happy.
if you are nice to everybody, all crime will cease (and if they do, they will stab you to death or run over you with a lorry both of which are better than being shot to death...)
while elaborating on your brilliant thought, no "reality" should be considered. all "work" should be voluntary. take the word out of the dictionary. government should find a way to provide you everything you need without anybody having to work. god, you are brilliant.
now lets really be open-minded. reality be damned. if people want guns then they should be able to have guns while simultaneously all people that all want guns banned should have that as well. why can't government overcome such anomalies. muslims in the uk should be able have a state religion, while the atheists should be able to have religion banned! getting drunk should no longer lead to hangovers - government can ban them!!
you should have it all and government has no excuse for not providing it. it doesn't matter what you do. conundrums be damned. reality be damned. violent nations like north korea, china, and russia will all come around to being "nice" if you just show them how to can have everything without any effort, without any anxiety, and with no conflict.
sir/madam (whoever you are), you have surpassed the thinking of marx, lenin, mao, stalin, and castro! you have even surpassed the thinking of Nietzsche on mushrooms!!
best post ever on Farting Like a Bruise
Maybe you should move to Finland, Denmark or Iceland because you don't sound happy.
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