Feel Like a Million

Time to rejoice!
It seems the number of millionaires has sky-rocketed over the last year to over ten million of the critters. Six hundred thousand new millionaires joined the ranks of this exclusive club. If ten million doesn't seem very exclusive consider that this number represents one fifth of one percent of the world population.
The amount of wealth they control...? Over forty trillion dollars. Sure you say. Forty trillion...? That's barely enough to fight forty Iraq Wars. A pittance. Well its certainly not a pittance but it is a pity. In the time its taken to write these words hundreds if not thousands have died in this world due to war, pestilence and hunger. Forty trillion dollars could, most probably, eradicate these scourges.
The fact that these fortunes were amassed from the labour of the workers of the world and is allowed to be horded by this gaggle of greed-ridden parasites cries for rectification.
Children are hungry. Mothers cradle their sick babies and sob in desparation and despair. Cluster bombs rain down on civilian populations in the name of freedom.
Why end war. Its good business and great for the bottom line. Why end disease. Pharmaceutical companies would go broke. Why end poverty. Hunger is the opiate of the masses and a hungry body is one willing to fight for a cause-mainly your cause. Better a belly full of lead than a belly full of bread.
Forty trillion dollars buys alot of bullets and builds alot of walls. But lets face it . People are poor because they are lazy. People are sick because they live in filth. Wars are waged because its human nature. Its not the rich people's fault and its not their problem. They are rich because they wanted it more than the poor. Let them eat cake!
Wars are waged because the rich want more. Diseases exist because people are forced to live in conditions under which pestilence thrives. People are poor because the rich cannot exist without them.
Its time to cull this herd of horders. Peace and prosperity are attainable goals but not so long as these parasites are allowed to pillage the global village. Its our choice. Thanks for nothing or thanks a million..?

Art Prince June 2008