The true scandal of our age is Barbgate

New data released today show that more 16-24 year old Greeks are now unemployed than employed. This stark fact makes a nonsense of the Troika’s EU austerity programme.

Last Monday, Britain’s charities released statistics revealing that Charities are shedding staff at twice the rate of the private sector. 70,000 employees have now left the sector – a reality making a nonsense  of David Cameron’s belief in The Big Society.

The SME finance monitor has shown that 78% of small UK business now “don’t bother” to even approach banks for a loan, because the turn-down rate and obstructionism of the past have rendered the process debilitating and pointless. This finding makes a nonsense of the idea that QE is, in any shape or form, useful as a means of freeing up bank liquidity for lending to small business.

In the United States, AP recorded at the end of last year that the third most reported media subject in 2011 was the long-term loss of employment there.

The current socio-economic model of capitalism isn’t working except for an infinitessimal minority. But those in charge resolutely refuse to acknowledge this. Perhaps if you live on Sark, it’s unlikely you’d notice anyway. But recognition of this is no longer a Left v Right issue.

As Ed West observes, sociological commentator Charles Murray’s new book on US society audits how – among many other profoundly disturbing changes – since the 1960s America’s society has cracked into three parts, with a broad middle class separating a super-rich elite and a growing underclass.

Big is winning. Material greed is winning. Goldman Sachs is winning. Venizelos is bribing. 11,000 Greeks are losing their pensions. Society is losing. Communities are losing. Families are losing.

Civilisation is ending.

Help this site and others like it turn that last prediction into a self-denying prophecy. Do something. And for crying out loud, stop asking me how. This isn’t the Moonies. Do what seems to you most appropriate.