That's just plain insanity if you ask me. There are homeless, there are children going to bed hungry, people in need of proper medicare, those who can't afford to go to the dentist and she is taking home over $60 million a year?!? How do we justify this in any way, shape or form?
British news has just reported the Queen is set to get a raise - a five per cent increase this year, bumping her annual income up to a whopping 38 million pounds, which equates to more than $60 million! Call me negative, call me bitter, but why on earth do we need this expense? What can this one woman be doing that could ever warrant her such luxuries? Aside from being born into it...
Yes I get that's she's a "queen" and royalty but it all just seems a tad ridiculous to me in today's day and age.
The royal family, the extravagance of it all and the lowly peasants who serve them may have been the norm in the past, but what place does this really hold in today's society? Things change and while it may be tough to "give the queen the boot" can we not at least start the process of weening down the amount of taxpayer dollars she and her family get? The Crown's Estate is reportedly a massive entity that records big profits every year, do WE have to fork over our hard earned dollars on top of that pile?
It would be one thing if the money stack was being used for the good of "the kingdom," but it's being spent on fancying up royal housing, travel expenses, clothing, entertainment, public appearances and the like.
I just can't imagine myself kicking back and enjoying such luxury on other people's dimes, especially looking out my window seeing so many others struggling. If you ask me Prince Charles and his charmed wife Camilla should be out working like the rest of us - what do they REALLY do?
In a world with flooding, tornadoes, hunger, thirst, inadequate health care, economic turmoil - the list goes on - how can just one family be placed on a pedestal and catered to in such a way? What makes this okay?
Maybe it's time to get with the times and to share the wealth. Just because the rest of us weren't born into it, doesn't make us any less deserving of good and quality lives.
