What is wrong with fairness?

            Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg says the very rich should help a bit more in dipping into their pockets to help the country during these dark times. He is referring to those with 'very considerable' wealth and for a limited period. The opposition says he is 'taking British people for fools'.  

           Who are the 'British people' today ? I see an increasing divide between the considerably wealthy and the considerably struggling to the point of obscenity. The opposition blow the conservative trumpet claiming that raising tax will drive the very rich abroad, but hang on, aren't they aware that there is nowhere to go! There is a global recession with even China struggling right now! And isn't the labour party about fairness for all?
         When Nick Clegg made this statement I immediately thought of Hitachi Power Tools. I am, after all, a carpenter not a politician. During the last deep recession in Japan, all the global Hitachi partners ploughed back every penny of profit into their head office to help Japan get back on its feet. I know this because at the time I had close liaisons with Hitachi Power Tools UK as they had generously supplied me with tools for the writing of my books and production of videos. Suffice to say the cordless drills and stout jigsaws I still use today. As a result of tightening their belt Hitachi fell slightly behind regarding brand promotion in the UK but the proof is in the durability of their products.

A Hitachi jigsaw given to Jeremy Broun in 1989 and still in use in 2012

         I think the stupidity is in this continued blind self-interest in Britain and blatant greed and justification of each faction (political) when the country is in a very serious mess indeed and tightening the belt is what a generation who remember the last war will relate to.  What is wrong with fairness?