All lies have elements of truth in them, which is why so many lies are so believable.
I have followed the arguments the British Government is having at the moment about the National Health Service and pensions for public sector workers and all the arguments circle the same thing: finances. The Conservative Government is steaming to try to get the deficit down as quickly as possible and why shouldn’t they, they are money men and everyone who has ever tried to play share markets or run a business know how critical time is in their success. But should a country be run as one would run a business?
It’s an interesting question but one I think has an immediate and straightforward answer : just because we choose to use money to run our affairs does not mean, can ever mean, money and the dictates of money gain supremacy over our ethical behaviour. The reason the Government wants everyone to suffer a lot now is because the men and women ruling the country have money to make.
I am guessing this is the same everywhere and it brings us back to the even older problem of whether people with lots of money should ever be allowed to rule countries. Perhaps it is time to have a law that politicians must leave office no richer than they enter it. I wonder how that would go down amongst our busy business men.