Poetry Thursday 94 - Fiscal Folly

 Government, from the Latin locution gubernare - which means steer a ship/vessel - describes the governing authority in charge of running a State. 

This definition is limited in its generality and yet all-encompassing. However, in the last 40 years, in many countries, it has come to mean protecting the economy, with the corollary that the duty of care to the general population has been diluted. 

Fiscal Folly

 

The fiscal rule rules that Reeves adopted,

not labour but from Tory co-opted,

designed by the conservative greed machine,

intended to keep ordinary folk where they've always been.

 

 

So what are we looking at now?

A world without hot and cold running water

because water companies aren’t making enough profit.

Health services dictated to by Big Pharma,

who only produce drugs with maximum profit.

Artificially priced energy to protect CEOs salaries,

by caps that ensure good profits.

All protected by insurance companies

that never allow claims to reduce profits!

 

Where is the support for the living,

the government elected to be caring,

naively elected on false promises,

bought for by sponsored media chancers?

 

Polarisation of opinion resulting in fascist dictators,

or countries run by lunatic trendy lefties.

The breakdown of government services to the people,

because they eat into the ill-gotten gains of oligarchs.

Use of the populace as a commodity

to be abused and mistreated at the whim of idiots,

culminating in real idiocrasies.

 

Turn back the clock to a better time,

when caring for each other was prime,

when government’s first aim was to serve,

and to make all life a sacred preserve.

©David L Atkinson May 2025 

God Bless