Altruism has its limitations

By Stanley Collymore

Throughout my life there has never been a murmur

of complaint from my lips when things didn’t

go my way; I simply accepted my failure,

examine where I’d gone wrong

and started all over again.

So why then should I be compelled to feel sorry

for and, what’s more, give every assistance

that I can from my meagre resources to

those that likewise mess up, but with

the crucial difference that their

privileged upbringing has

tutored them all their selfish lives never to

accept responsibility for anything other

than what is manifestly beneficial or

financially advantageous to them,

and who I know would under

no circumstance, however

small or big the adversity

I experience, ever do

the same for me?

Welcome therefore to the reality of the 21^st Century

where corporate profits are studiously regarded as

the exclusive ownership of the corporations

and their shareholders but the massive

debts they rack up through their

reckless greed, incompetence and criminal

impunity, recurrently granted full immunity

by our venal and dishonest lawmakers,

become the sole burden of the hard-

-done-by taxpayers and ordinary

citizens. Privatized profits

definitively; but socialist

debts in perpetuity!

© Stanley V. Collymore

21 April 2013.

Footnote:

Welcome to the reality of the 21^st Century where corporate profits are studiously regarded as the exclusive property of the corporations and their shareholders, but their massive debts caused through their reckless greed, incompetence and criminality for which they bear no responsibility become the sole burden of the hard-done-by taxpayers and ordinary citizens. Privatized profits; socialist debts!