Yesterday I was thinking about why some countries in the world are able to organise things in a way that creates a lot of wealth for their citizens by embracing foreign expertise to maximise the economic and lifestyle benefits for everyone involved. And of course the nations that don’t. It seems to me that the difference between the two examples is the former is run like a business and the latter resembles a giant homeless shelter.

100k views and still Climbing

This train of thought led to the following post on X which, it seems, struck a chord with a lot of people. It’s currently at about 100k views, and still climbing.

The UK is run by idiots who borrow money to spend on unsustainable benefits because there’s too many work-shy scammers on the take and not enough honest hard-working Brits paying into the system to keep it afloat. The whole thing is insane!

If you give a lazy bastard £2k month to sit on his arse at home watching TV, then don’t be surprised when the bloke won’t take a job paying £24k a year before tax! At least the last @Conservatives government were trying to force shirkers like the 80,000 layabouts who can ponce benefits if their partner has a job.

But this bunch of leeches can relax on their sofas since @UKLabour binned the Tory plan to make them get a job!@WeFix_London @reformparty_uk

I appreciate that being able to set things up from scratch gives small modern nations like the UAE and other Gulf states an advantage, but is that really an excuse not to take a look at how things are being done elsewhere and changing the narrative?

Every Penny comes from Business

In the UK for example we have a health system which is ‘free’ for those who need to use it. But like anything that seems to be free it comes at a great cost. Something else I saw on X yesterday hit the nail right on the head. It said: ‘Everything that’s free is paid for by someone who works!’ It reminded me of something I once heard the former Governor of the Bank of England Mervin King say in a speech to an audience of business owners – The government needs to understand that every penny it has to spend comes from businesses!

Think about it. There is no other way the government can get hold of the money to run the country. It’s either from taxes, which all track back to businesses, or it’s borrowed money, which is actually borrowed against future taxes from the same businesses. When you lift up the economy’s bonnet and see what’s really going on, it really shows just how suicidal Labour’s anti-business attitude actually is. Complete idiocy.

The Few Subbing the Many

And it gets worse. All politicians like to announce good news and claim it as their own doing, but when giving out whopping great pay increases to train drivers and doctors they don’t add the bit about everyone else who didn’t get more money will have to work harder to pay for the ‘good news’.

Then there are the state employees who get paid, but don’t work and don’t have any intention of getting a job while working people’s tax money is subsidising their sofa sitting lifestyle at a rate of 100%. So, the UK has 32 million working aged people out of its total population of almost 70 million. But when you take out the 9 million working aged people (aged 16-64) who are not working, not in education, or actively seeking a job, you wind up with 23 million grafters subbing 47 million others. Clearly there are children and the elderly in this equation, but there’s a load of slackers not holding up their end of the deal.

There are of course also 110,000 people in the UK who are having their asylum claims processed. They can’t work, except in the black economy, and with most of this group not having a UK support network they are an even greater burden on the UK economy than even British-born layabouts.

More like a Homeless Shelter than a Business

I accept that the UK is a huge run-away train, but if we keep shovelling coal into the boiler it’s never going to stop until there is no more coal left. Year after year there are more people taking out of the system compared to the number paying in. This is an unsustainable situation, and one that if it were a business would have gone broke years ago.

There may be some differences between a country and a business, for starters a country doesn’t need to make a profit. But the way I see what’s going on in the UK under Labour is more like a huge homeless shelter, with not enough staff to deal with all the problems faced by the residents. And the harder the staff try to keep the shelter going the more likely they are to cross over to the other side and become a service user rather than a provider.