A Few Problems to be fixed in 2017

Here is my list of things as I see them:-

1/ The super rich, not content with destroying the western economies in 2008, are still out of democratic control, taking 'their' wealth away to tax havens and moving the tax paying factories away to low tax, low wage countries. Stripping our western societies of the money and skilled jobs needed to maintain a reasonable standard of life.

2/ Our politicians responded, not by taxing the super rich but by shutting down our social services and selling off our public assets in an extensive programme of austerity targeted mainly at the least fortunate in our society.

3/ The same super rich, seeing a danger to their financial control from the  European Community, used unscrupulous politicians and their (tax haven resident) newspaper owners to turn the bruised and battered population on ethnic minority groups instead of on the super rich themselves. A VERY effective tactic learnt from the 1930's.

4/ As if this was not enough the Arab Spring degenerated into a massive religious war between Shia and Sunni Muslims across the whole region. These are the worst kind of wars as they are immune to any form of logic or reason.

5/ These wars have trigger unprecedented mass migration into Europe backing up the narrative of the super rich's newspapers with a success beyond their wildest dreams.

6/ Both of the 'communist' super powers (do you remember socialism and communism?) have turned themselves into wild west capitalist states run by a kleptocracy of corrupt billionaires who often live as Non-Doms in places like London, well away from their home societies in whose welfare they have zero interest.

7/ If the USA actually means it about the repatriation of its industrial production from China, this could well trigger economic collapse in China as it is already teetering on the edge with a massive debt mountain to maintain. This would lead to all sorts of civic unrest in China in 2017.

8/ The last point only needs one word - Trump! [You can fill in the rest yourself]

Well, that about sums it up, so it should be quite easy to fix shouldn’t it?

Have a great 2017.

[Contradictory comments welcomed – I need cheering up!]