In the film "Independence Day", part of the speech the embattled President of the United States uses to inspire the pilots at Groom Lake (Area 51) before they fly off to repel the alien hordes got me thinking.
""Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! "
Is this guy trying to reach through the years and give us hope? Did the script writers realise the end was closer than we thought?
Mankind, all the human beings on the planet, be they black, white, yellow or tanned, be they male, female, transgender or transsexual, be they fit or unit, able or disabled. We are fighting for our freedom from a tyrannical, oppressive government that by adroit use of the media are persecuting those of our society that need the most help. Why? I wish someone could tell me.
But, be it May the Fourth or July the Fourth, we need our independence from fear of starvation, we need to be able to survive. I don't want a Teak Toilet Seat for £50, I don't want to pay a researcher, or buy a Garlic Press or some Jamie Oliver cooking equipment, I want to know that my wife and I can eat and be kept warm.
It would be nice to buy food, I don't want a massive amount of food, we only eat one cooked meal a day, a small snack and a small breakfast. It's not a large meal, and we don't use expensive ingredients.
It would be nice to carry on being able to watch some television, I don't want Sky Movies, I don't want the Sports Channels, I definitely DO NOT want any "Adult" channels.
It would be nice to keep my telephone, so my daughter who has just recently been diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyeltis can phone at 5 a.m. to get her mm to talk her through getting up. So my 83 year old Dad who lives in Spain can call and let the phone ring enough so we know he's alive still!
It would be nice to keep paying for gas and electricity, to keep us warm and dry, to keep us and our clothes clean.
It would be nice to pay the water company for providing clean water to cook with, to drink and to wash with. OK, once we have used the water, we need them to take it away as well!
It would be nice to be able to keep the Internet, so I can carry on learning about how cruel the government can get, so I can keep in touch with my MP and friends by email.
It would also be nice to hang on to my car. Not a priority to most, but I cannot get to the nearest bus stop without severe pain! Without the car, I'm stuck indoors.
Soon, I've got to pay the Council £2 a week for Council Tax top up. In addition to that I may have to pay £14 for the bedroom I'm about to go to sleep in as I am twitching so much that I will wake my wife if I go to sleep in our bedroom.
Let's have a rough break-down of how my money goes at present-
| Electricity | £ 15.00 |
| Gas | £ 15.00 |
| TV | £ 6.00 |
| TV Licence | £ 8.00 |
| Water | £ 15.00 |
| Broadband | £ 6.00 |
| Telephone | £ 6.00 |
| Food | £ 40.00 |
| £ 111.00 |
Oh great, I get £111 on the DWP's Assessment Rate while waiting for my ESA appeal to be sorted out! I can survive!
BUT ... When the Council Tax and Rent Top-Up come into play I've got to find another £16 a week to pay for that, what goes? Looks like there's two choices, £26 a week for food or "Can't Pay, Won't Pay!"
Now, imagine, I didn't like keeping up with the TV, I could lose the TV and TV licence, the problem is the TV comes as part of a package that supplies TV, Telephone and Internet. I stop paying for the TV channels, I have to pay more for the Internet and phone. OK, I might save the Licence fee, but that would soon be swallowed up in the increases in Fuel prices and now Water rates.
Did anyone not tell the Members of Parliament that restricting benefit increases to 1% would cause severe problems of poverty? Well, I told my MP, but she still voted for the cap! I have half a feeling that she was misled by the title of the Bill, "the Benefit Uprating Bill", it didn't up any rates, just cut them. That and the lies that Iain Duncan Smith spouted about benefits going up by double what wages went up by.
Did you notice, in the calculations above, the missing link? The thing I used my Disabled Living Allowance for? Yep, petrol and maintenance for the car!
As I said in my earlier blog entry, http://aturtle05.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-death-sentence-arrives.html the Department of Workshy and Painfree have stopped that, so, the car is eating into money I haven't got already.
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