Cempaka Belanda: The gap between rich and poor in the Netherlands is growing

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“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, January 19, 2015

The gap between rich and poor in the Netherlands is growing

DutchNews.nl, January 19, 2015

While income equality is relatively stable in the Netherlands, the gap between rich and poor is growing fast, according to the Volkskrant.

Figures from national statistics agency CBS show that at the beginning of 2012 the richest 1% in the Netherlands owned 24% of private wealth. This was made up of shares, savings accounts, property and other possessions.

By early 2013, the assets accumulated by the 75,000 richest households had risen to 26.6% of private wealth.

The figures do not take pensions into account, the Volkskrant says. The CBS does not include these figures because people cannot yet access their pensions and it is not ‘free’ wealth.

If the hundreds of millions of euros in pension schemes are included, then the gap is smaller, although it is still much larger than the difference in income.

Leaving pensions out of the calculation, the CBS says the top 1% owned an average assets of €2.5m. For the average household the figure in 2013 was €19,000. The difference comes from rising debt and falling house prices.

Shocking

Before the financial crisis in 2008, the top 1% owned one-fifth of the national wealth. In 2013, this had grown to one-quarter. According to Utrecht professor Bas van Bavel, the figures are ‘rather shocking’.

Van Bavel researched inequality last year for a government report and found that while the share of wealth amongst the richest has risen, there are 1.1 million households with more debt than assets, a third more than in 2008.

‘The latest CBS figures confirm my report,’ Van Bavel told the Volkskrant. ‘Debt problems for the poorest are increasing. The middle class has very little in assets left and cannot absorb any shocks. The sub-top – from €100,000 to €500,000 – are seeing their wealth shrink. Only the richest keeping their wealth intact.’

Oxfam

The CBS figures are in line with those of Oxfam, published on Monday ahead of the Davos economic summit in Switzerland. The charity’s research shows that the share of the world’s wealth owned by the richest 1% increased from 44% in 2009 to 48% in 2014, while the least well-off 80% currently own just 5.5%.

Oxfam adds that on current trends the richest 1% will own more than 50% of the world’s wealth by 2016.

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