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Poverty Pimp of The Week Award

But no cigar.... | 23.11.2004 16:54

Poverty Pimp of The Week
Homes For Profit Not People Award (November 2004)

Poverty Pimp of The Week - Streetshine

Perhaps the idea came from a trip to India, where our holidaying bourgoisie can pick up sweatshop bargains and get their

shoes cleaned by the poor as they search for liberal 'enlightenment' and cheap drugs - excuse the sarcasm as I nominate the

weeks Poverty Pimp. In the thriving business sector that encompasses London's Homelessness projects we have Thames Reach

Bondway and the Streetshine Project.

This is a dry cleaning ( yuk those dodgy chemicals )and shoe cleaning service to help the homeless gain 'self esteem' and

perhaps full time work in this area ( whoopee ) whilst providing a cheap service for rich dodgy bastard bastions of

capitalism, share-dealing and iffy accounting KPMG and Bloomberg!!!!. Seriously.

These lucky people will gain access to more training if successful and perhaps a career in cleaning. Lucky them. Who says

capitalism doesn't have a heart.....


Homes For Profit Not People Award ( of the month ) - The Blairs ( again )

This has to be Tony and Cherie. Tony really does try for 'democracy' and 'world peace'. Tears everybody. And he helps the homeless

by investing in property for his sons in Bristol so that going to University can be a money spinner - this we know. He also

likes to keep his business deals at arms length does our Tony so their are minimum comebacks.

In this case Arms Length doesn't mean the dodgy 2 stage privatisation (ALMO) that has helped to benefit property scum like

Savills and quite a few council workers in the housing sector whilst fucking over housing associations and the rest of us.

No arms length in the case refers to an ARMS company, namely Thales ( $7.7bn military sales inc. missiles, avionics, naval systems, radar, optronics. Partners have included Raytheon in the US. Missile buyers include Saudi Arabia. source: CAAT ) and it earns the Blairs around £60,000 per year renting to exectutives working on a government 'defense'contract. Thales is also a donor to the Labour Party. So obviously no conflict of interest there.

But no cigar....

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Smile?

23.11.2004 17:53

Dude, you're SO full of negativeness. I agree that all that stuff sucks like you say it does. But are you just going to spend your whole life being pissed off with everything? There'll always be lots of injustice in the world. Hopefully we can all try our best to reduce it but it'll always be there. So try and enjoy yourself while you're alive. There's a lot to be pissed off with but there *are* things to be joyful about too if you look for them. Whereas you appear to be totally cynical and jaded and disillusioned and full of nothing but anger and resentment.

bloke


Apologies

23.11.2004 20:17

Sorry I cannot be more cheerful about arms dealing and exploitation.

Still no cigar....


pissheads and junkies

23.11.2004 21:40

While i agree that arms dealing etc is evil, are not most of the homeless junkies and alchoholics who are incapable of looking after a home?? Perhaps a bit of legitimate money to help get their smack might be better than robbing people to get money to finance their habit. Or maybe a different and better drugs policy by the government etc

pothead