Money is the root of all Evil

Is it?  Is it really? 

3% of people own the worlds riches.
If they wanted to they could change the world for the better with their wealth instead of buying gold plated jags and huge houses they only live in for a few days a year.
Why don't they use their money for good?
Are they Evil?  
Some are, some aren't. 
They are people like us.

The Beckhams and the Gates' and many other famous people use their fame to raise money for charity.  Do they actually give any of their own money away? Hard to find out.

But loads of people with hardly any money to keep themselves,across the UK are coerced into supporting charities, through the post.Junk mail seems to have reached record levels. Guilting us with half starved donkeys covered in sores and children who are skeletons with flies in their eyes.

I do support charities with my own time and money.

The Salvation Army - they help those who no-one else will touch.
The Blue Cross and the RSPCA - because animals deserve to be treated with respect.
The Movember Foundation for Men's health because men are notoriously bad at looking after themselves.
The National Trust to preserve our Heritage for everyone.
The Poppy Foundation for war veterans.
The Sealed Knot - raising money for charity up and down the country.
I used to volunteer to answer phones for Children in Need every year while working for the BBC.

I think if I had more money I wouldn't sit on it, but then I have always been a spendthrift.
What are people thinking when they win huge amounts of money on the lottery and say
"It won't change my life." and go back to work as if nothing had happened. Why do the lottery?  I want it to change my life!

They give Lottery winners counselling when they win.  What about people like me who need counselling when they lose?

I would get my health properly fixed, and buy a house I would love and look after.  I'd get a King Charles spaniel, and spend time with my hubby doing all the things we can't currently afford to do- like go to Venice on the Orient Express. Sort my family and friends out and generally have a good time. (That doesn't include drugs and drink and debauchery!) I would 
go to the Theatre more, have tea at Bettys in Harrogate and the Savoy in London, buy a motorhome to go Sealed Knotting in, and sit on a Cornish beach in the sun.

In the 16th/17th/18th Centuries, Lords of the Manors in England felt an obligation to employ local people, it was their duty to look after those on their lands.

Now it is volunteers looking after the Manor Houses that the Lords partially own having got out of death duties by bequeathing the Houses to charities like the National Trust, with caveats that mean they can still live in the houses, and dip into the coffers.

No money isn't evil, it's what it's used for that can be. 

I have been saving again recently but my previous savings went on the pallative care of one little cat, and life saving care for his replacement. Rescued and obtained from the RSPCA.  My next lot of savings will pay for private physiotherapy for my dislocated kneecap and split
ligaments.  I can just about afford this so that the NHS can treat someone who can't.

Money is like the sea, it comes in in huge waves, and then just as quickly disappears again.
Also like the sea - it can slip through your fingers.

Lets hope for a future for everyone that has enough cash for food, fun, and health.