I wonder why some days we are incredibly productive and then others, like today for me, we can produce nothing.
I have decided to release the rest of my day for thought in the hope that something good can come of it.
My major problem, presently, is getting the message across. I know that my services are needed, I just don't seem to be able to get in touch with the people that want it. If any of you have any ideas I would be very pleased to receive them.
I saw a guy today who, I think, put his finger of the solution to the problems the Nation has experienced over the last few years. His answer is an ideal and impossible to put into existence but it set me thinking. I don't know the exact statistics but I think they go along the lines that suggest that the Government has spent £30,000 for every man woman and child in the Country to save the banks.
Now he has lost £80,000 in bad debts and ventured to suggest that if the Government had compensated him and all of those who have suffered likewise those of us who run small businesses would have been able to keep the Country afloat.
Now, as I said above the system is an ideal and could never work but if the Government had gone along those lines, small businesses (always described at election times as the "backbone" of society) may well have caused the economy to recover more quickly. Certainly left in the hands of the Banks, it will be years before enough cash starts to wash about again.
Wishful thinking.
If you have been..... thanks for listening.
Chris
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Let me be the first to congratulate you on your new found ability to blog!! It's certainly something that I have never done.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, as you know I work for a banking organisation, I was never a fan of the so called bail out of the banks by the governments. Should a collapse happen to any other organisation they would be put into administration with the tax man lining up for the first bite at any assets that might still exist. There is no precedent for allowing a company that has spectacularly mis-managed their affairs losing billions of what effectively is not their own money, to be given the keys to the government treasury. Brown, as ever, took the wrong course of action and should never have been allowed near the situation and the banks should have been allowed to fail.
We seem to never learn anything from experience. This is not the first time in history that money has been made from vapour, certainly 1929 should be prominent in the minds of those charged with corporate responsiblity even though they were probably not born, and the 80's junk bond scandal doesn't seem to have even been mentioned. More regulation is not the answer, the answer lies with the organisations themselves taking their corporate responsibilities seriously and having to face up to the consequences of their actions, or in this case inaction.
If the mainstay of this country and its economy is the small business community, then there is little evidence of support for those organisations from either the government or the large banking corporations.
Please note that these comments are my own personal opinion and in no way reflect those of the company for which I work.