"we rely totally on number juggling to make money"

Yet you would like to to put an end to this without being able to suggest anything realistic to take its place.

"Meanwhile government cuts spending on the necessitie­s of the poorest to bail out or give tax breaks to the wealthiest"

I assume you mean the bail of the banks. The cuts are nothing to do with the bailouts. Labour built up spending based on taxes on bank profits but when the profits stopped the excessive spending was exposed. Now you decry bank profits which would help to reduce the annual budget deficit. And tax breaks for the wealthiest; what tax breaks have the Tories introduced?

"no longer interested in providing jobs"

You are under the same delusion as Republicans in the US that the wealthy will provide jobs. Do you mean they should take on servants?

"those suffering the brunt of cuts decide enough is enough and go out with the sole intention of getting their share by breaking in to businesses­."

Stealing trainers and mobile phones is a political act? You seem to approve of theft.

"Austerity works so well...for bankers who can steal that much more"

A much repeated but meaningless phrase. Pray tell how bankers "steal" and how this justifies looting and arson.

"Isn't this greedy selfish society the pits."

I'm afraid that even the Chinese have abandoned communism for capitalism. Perhaps you will find nirvana in North Korea.

It has been for years.

Our economies are increasingly less about industry and more about funny money management. We have bank and mega-corporate welfare on the one hand. And then we have failed, unaffordable social programs and entitlements on the other hand (ex. greece's retirement system).

It's a big pyramid scheme that we're continued to grow grow grow grow...

(as if mere, quantitative "growth" is what humans should be concerned with)

Mini Cooper is owned by BMW. Jaguar is owned by Tata Motors of India. At one time the "Sun never set on the British Empire" maybe Moore's Law will apply to the fall of empires.
The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades. Inversly the time it takes for an empire to fall is halved every 18 months. It could be named the "Half life of an Empire" every 18 months the life expectancy of an empire is cut in half. The Soviet Empire lasted 1922-1991. First point of decline was Cuban missle crisis then failure in Afghanistan-1989. If the start of the decline of the US Empire was the end of the Soviet Empire the US should be toast by 2014.
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China is keeping their currency artificially low to attract businesses, and they are living in an economic bubble, and if that bubble bursts, all hell is going to break lose.

Which downgrade is that then? Caused by Obama was it? Do you know that the downgrade was caused by the "inability of Congress to function"?(I paraphrase S& P) And which joking political party is saying NO to everything?
All the info is there, just read S& P's report!!
Most of the problems in our financial systems are directly attributable to Thatcher and Reagan"s so called "freeing up" of our City financial systems.
God help us.

So presumably your personal solution to "getting the economy going" is to borrow as much as you can and spend it. When the bank won't lend you any more get every credit card you can and spend even more.

If you applied your philosophy to your own life you would have the repo men at your door and you would be out on the street. Spending money you don't have isn't going to solve anything.

I dont know where "your area" is, but its the same all over, I think. And yes, I agree, its crazy. I almost understand why repubs push the policies we have now, but never will I understand Obama getting on board with it.