The High Tech War that is being fought in Afghanistan is costing the country millions of pounds each and every hour, the cost of the war by far exceeds that which is available through the general public, cuts in policing, health care, education, the selling off of assets, most recently the channel tunnel link, it is innevitable that there has to be a source of funds to keep our troops in Afghanistan, the reality of life at the moment is that this country is slowly but surely heading toward total bancruptsy, add the cost of war to our National Debt and the mathmatics is simple, we are spending much more than we can afford., current war cost estimated at around £2.5billion weekly, The National Debt around £960 billion, The Gulf Wars around half a trillion pounds, where is the money going to come from, why are people surprised at cutbacks, even if every person in the UK donated their entire months wages to the Government we would still be in Debt.
for a good idea of the financial cost of war, although now historical and out of date you can well imagine where we are at in the present
The Hidden Cost of War
The situation for the general public is worsening and is not so far from our heading into a situation where the homeless figures will rise and continue to rise until such a time as we see that, as a nation, we are as impoverished as peoples in what was once referred to as ''Third World'', now called Developing Countries, while we ourselves are failing to 'develop', in the past 24 hours I have had one person knock on my door for a coffee, not because he wanted to share my company but simply that he had run out of electric and gas and was cold, another only yesterday saying that she was in a situation where she was now forced to sell her home because she could no longer afford to keep up the payments on her home.
To name but a few, we have mothers days, fathers days, we have smoking awareness days, a whole list of days where we should take stock, on the recent announcement of a Royal Wedding a Public Holiday has been quickly promised, there is no Homelessness Aware Day, not in this country, in America yes, in Australia, yes, but not here, Homelessness is a growing problem and one that will continue to grow and grow as the financial plight of this country increases; SHELTER recently announced that the Government was targeting the poorest and most vulnerable of society, this is true in one respect however in another, it is truly the poorest and the most vulnerable that now make up a majority group within our modern society; more can be taken from this majority group than the small number of disgustingly wealthy individuals, it is simply mathematics that govern a country and as much as the government hype professes to 'understand and be emphathise with the sad situations of peoples lives there truly is little that the government can do.
Homelessness will increase as will poverty as long as people take little notice of what is going on in the bigger picture and bring drastic change to their lives, in some respects the homeless minority are fortunate, they have nothing to lose and there truly is only one direction that they can go, for the remainder of society it is time to tighten their belts and to respond to the homeless situation as it now stands, they may themselves one day need the services that are currently in operation to help.
References
http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2129/1/
http://www.debtbombshell.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/13/afghanistan-iraq-bill-british-military
