The Speaker of the House of Commons to step down

I think you'll find MP's have been giving themselves very nice pay rises in the last 18 years. Certainly more than the average wage earner.

Likewise the pension funds and expense accounts are very generous.

Bottom line:

If a member of the public was abusing the welfare system to the extent these MP's were abusing their expenses, where do you think they would be standing in relation to the legal system right now?

Do you think a person could admit to what they did, and stand down from their job and expect the civil law system to say: "Fair enough, good play their old chap. You've fallen on your sword and we will move onto the next case."

How about Meryll Lynch paying out some 2 billion dollars in bonuses to their executives after posting a 800 billion dollar loss, and the cracking thing is...the bonus money is tax payer funds from the treasury of the United States through AIG.

I mean really, do these people really think it doesn't go unnoticed that everyone seems to be using tax payer funds to line their own pockets?

And guess what.

The government of the UK decides to up the tax rate to 50% plus in response to the cataclysmic screw up perpetrated by the private banking sector.

Last time I check how banks deal will loans is they ask the person or organisation to pay the loan back themselves. Not some 3rd party like the tax payer who was slugged with coming up with the bail out money in the first place.

Doesn't it strike you all here as simply incredible that the UK government can hand out taxpayer money to the private sector, then turn around to the same tax payer who had no hand in the disaster in the first place and then ask them to help pay back the very money that was handed out in the first pace?

Seems rather like double dipping to me.

On that statement alone anyone can run for office and win in most 1st world western countries in the next 15 years.

The moral fiber of people in general is rapidly falling into disgrace.