There's no eggs and bacon for him ?

The rain beating on my window woke me up. It was two in the morning and as the wind and rain raged outside I felt like the pig who built his house with bricks. The weather has been atrocious in the UK we seem to be at the mercy of high and low pressure areas drawing air in and out over the surface of the globe bringing the wind and the rain. We feel smug and secure, a house built in the 50s on high ground and above all, paid for !!

Not far away a different situation as a homeless guy draws the plastic sheet around him trying to keep his bedding dry. His home is a canvas bag, increasingly sodden as the night drags on, its a long time before dawn. He had hoped to settle in the station waiting room or at least under the protection of the bus shelter but the authorities moved him on.


The smell of my cooking at breakfast time, bacon sausage and eggs usually causes acrimonious comment from Marie but then when one has heard it all before and with Angela staying, I thing I will risk it !!!


Our friend on the canal bank has no aroma stigma to contend with. He is on a different planet, inhospitable and very wet. He would admit to being a free spirit but at what cost!  Breakfast will be what he can find in the "takeaway" bins, the left overs. 
He is a leftover, the Tories would describe him as a ne'er do well perhaps a scrounger, certainly a man down on his luck. 
He also had a house and a family but things went wrong when his firm laid him off. Divorced he was turned out of his home onto the street with few opportunities, there's no egg and bacon for him !!!   

Of course the scale of things in Africa fuelled by a high birth rate makes my illustration seem puny. 
Having read my history, The Mississippi/Louisiana scandal, The South Sea scandal, The Tulip scandal right up to the Dot Com and recently the Derivatives scandal linked to abnormal credit, were all manufactured scandals. Manufactured by people in power, people of influence who hood winked millions of gullible folk into a gamble which, until it burnt out, raised for a few, many millions of pounds.
The power of capitalism seen during the second world war, to mass produce ships and armaments, the many many millions spent on building ever taller buildings as a signiture for some super rich oligarchy to tell the world, we are the richest. The phenomenal wages paid to footballers, the grotesque bonuses paid to the traders in the financial centre's, all the result of the lop sided bias that unfettered capitalism brings to society and you say - what can we do ???
If we had the "will" we could do a lot, but self-aggrandizing gets in the way and our own effacement in the plight of the poor is a large contributor to its on going blight on our social conscience.