Little people

Little people caught by the pace and challenges of change.
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In some countries they are called poor, in some under priveliged and in others the underclass. 
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No matter the name, the problems are the same.
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Recent events have created changes and situations they cannot avoid.
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Situations not of their own making.
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Situations created by generations of greedy, selfish leaders.
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Generations of poor decisions.
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Leaders intent on preserving their own power and privileges.
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Was a time when politicians and diplomats had time to practice their skills before assuming high office.
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Some even pretended to care
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No more
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Politics today is seen as a full time profession
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Little need for experience of the real world, in they dive into their chosen world.
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Quickly they learn the arts of lying, prevarication, compromise, arse licking and the rest.
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Only times have changed now because everything has speeded up.
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The internet and instant global communications have forced these people to comment and react quicker
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Quicker and quicker as our experience of time continues to compress.
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Our experience of time going faster and faster.
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Creating exposure where the lies and denials have to come faster and faster.
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Hastily formed commissions promising to look into the latest scandal or f***k up.
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Even these are now being exposed for what they are.
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Time is forcing the pace.
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Little people the world over being hurt.

They have always been hurt.
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They are always there.
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Nowhere to run or hide.
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Just having to take whatever is foisted on them.
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Plenty is written about their plight

And yet generation after generation more slide into poverty.
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Many more now in every country owing to the current economic situation.
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How can this be when many are so rich today with assets way beyond their means to spend or use?
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One may not like communism or socialism however their ideals are fine most would agree.
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Just human greed always seems to get in the way.
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Time to get real and admit that consumption based economics are not the way to go.
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The disparities between rich and poor are a scandal.
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And yet we still will not engage in discussion about a fairer way to use our resources.
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No matter the perfect storm approaches.
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A storm that the rich no more than the little people will be able to avoid.
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Maybe, just maybe, this will focus minds.
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That we are all one.
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Interdependent on each other.
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If the little people suffer then you will too.
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This has not been understood.
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The rich for some reason seeming to believe that this is nothing to do with them.

Wrong!
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Where there is suffering anywhere on this planet and you have the where with all to do something about it and choose not to then you take your negative karma.
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The little people you look down on, are you from a previous life, paying their karma.
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Just as you must in the next.
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Time to wake up.
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We are all in this mess together.