The Anonymous Widower

Waking Up In Cloud-Cuckoo World

I woke at about five this morning and put the radio on to listen to the news. One of my favourite books is The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. The title says it all succinctly and describes how Hitler managed to keep the German economy going to meet his own ends, in his own cloud-cuckoo world.

I felt that I’d woken up in a world where everyting was being run by idiots, who had lost their sense of where they were supposed to be, but were still of course getting all of their perks and salaries. Or in the case of various dictators were still milking all their subjects for ever cent they’d got.

The first story was the problems in Syria, where all sane people agree that President Assad must go. The president used to be an opthalmologist, which in my book is a sort of doctor, so why is he blinding some of his people and killing others in an effort to cling to power? And why were we still supporting this despot until recently?

Then there was the story about Greece having a referendum on cuts.  Turkeys and Christmas come to mind. Of course they’ll vote yes to the cuts!

The Germans are supposed to be efficient.  But they can’t seem to find the source of their e-coli outbreak. So what does the EU do about it, have a meeting?

I could add other stories, where those in charge are going one way and doing their utmost to keep their high-salaried jobs.

Don’t get me going on the NHS, where at present I just need a repeat prescription and it seems to take days at my GP.  At the previous one, I sent in an e-mail and either collected the drugs or the signed prescription on the next working day. How many highly-paid civil servants does it take to not impliment that very simple policy?

And now to cap it all, BBC Breakfast is talking about the lack of cuckoos this year.  They’re all alive and well and living in politics and government, all over the world!

June 7, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | News, World | Germany, Greece, Politics