Celebrate the enormously Rich!!

[Gromit]

After Oaths to the Queen and celebrating Britain day, the latest edict from the government is urging us to celebrate the enormously wealthy.

The UK should "celebrate the fact that people can be enormously wealthy in this country", Business Secretary John Hutton is expected to say.
Rather than questioning whether high salaries are morally justified, we should celebrate the fact that people can be enormously successful in this country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7289113 .stm

What is going on?

[Kromovaracun]

High salaries are economic matters, not moral ones. Looking at it logically, I don't see that high salaries aren't justified.

Having said that, a good minimum wage is very important (as is gov't spending in the right places) - but minimum wage actually makes just as much economic as moral sense (Read Galbraith on this).

What's with all the pointless 'day' suggestions anyhow? It's kind of embarassing.

[helpmetoo]

at last some good sense spoken,

apart from a few most people with wealth did not acquire it from last years christmas cracker,

you have to graft for it,

the vibes i get from the posting is that you are not in favour of wealth,

my view, and i am not particularly wealthy but dont hold it against anyone who is, is that it is morally better to work and succeed than laze about and fail.

[Gromit]

I am happy for people to be wealthy, but I do not want to celebrate them. I would sooner envy them, aspire to be them or even admire them, but I do not want to worship them.

[Kromovaracun]

To be fair, I think the idea behind it would be to celebrate the oppurtunity of becoming wealthy that we have (and perhaps the idea that it's easier to 'make it' here than elsewhere).

It's still utterly pointless though. Why for god's sake do we need a day to celebrate this? I think the government has much bigger issues to deal with, frankly.

[sp1214]

There is a maxim:

'You never get rich working for someone else'

And this government are guilty as hell in treading on the small entrepreneur. What contracts do this government offer to the small business?

[tigerlily11]

The goverment are making another attempt to take our minds off just how cr*p things have got in this country by suggesting another bank holiday.
I could think of a good few oaths to make to that woman and her mob.
I would never swear an oath to the Queen and I wouldn't expect any child to either. Our country maybe but not the Queen. After all one day it wil be that prat Charlie and his moose Camilla.

[fredpuli47]

Quite right too, I'm all for celebrating all those British billionaires who live in .....er...Monaco !