The lies that the government and big business don't want you to discover....

Have you ever wondered why - even if you earn a good above average salary - that it only allows you to just get by, living from month to month, and having just some of the things you want? Why is it so very hard for the average person to earn much more than £30000-£40,000 or so a year? Do you sometimes wonder how on earth some of your friends and neighbors can afford their lifestyles, and the things that they buy?

The Government want you to keep your nose to the grindstone, working hard, spending (they get the VAT) and paying income tax for as long as possible. This allows them to carry on wasting much of our money on their various madcap schemes and job creation programmes......

Big business wants you to do the same, so that you can carry on buying their products and services, in the meantime they carry on paying you as little as they can get away with to boost their profits.

Both want you to strive for more, be a material "success", earn and spend that bit more, have a higher standard of living and "live the dream" as they say in America. This, after all, creates "economic growth" without which we are all doomed, or so they'd have us believe. (Actually it’s the pursuit of endless “economic growth” that dooming the planet! Ed.) As you work harder and harder to afford more products and services to maintain a "lifestyle", you'll also become totally dependent on maintaining your job and income, and of course pay even more taxes to the government............ They gain, but how much do you really gain?

What happens if you still can't seem to earn enough to buy into "the dream"? Well don't worry, step forward the banks and the credit industry, they'll loan you the money that you don't have. You can then use this money – money that you haven't yet even earned yet - to go out and buy more "cool stuff". You can buy a bigger house, that 42" plasma TV, upgrade you car, holiday in exotic places you can barely find on the map. But will you be happier? Will you sleep better at night as the debt piles up?

What will happen if your circumstances change; maybe you'll be made redundant, have to take a lower paid job, or maybe you'll be taken ill, have an accident, and be unable to work for a while. How will you keep up the repayments? The simple fact is; we've all been brainwashed by the advertisers and media into wanting more and more "stuff", and to want to buy into a "lifestyle".

We’ll be explaining how government, big business, and (especially) the financial services industry, all have a vested interest in getting you into too much debt. They really don’t care if it brings misery to your family, or impoverishes you in the long term. Amazingly, the present government doesn’t seem to care if the long financial viability of the country is under threat either. At Live on Less however we do, and we’ll be showing you how to fight back and regain control of your life, and quite possibly help to save the planet and the UK’s future.

You’ll read much more about the many half-truths and blatant lies we are told, and how they affect your life every week in Live on Less.
Some small examples: There are many natural and inexpensive items - many that you probably have around your home already - that can be used to replace many costly chemical household cleaning products. The chemical and advertising industries would rather you didn't know about them or use them however!

The government tells us that inflation is only around 2.5%, yet anyone who runs a household can see that the true figure is at least 5-7%, probably more. The government are fiddling the figures in a desperate attempt to curb wage demands and hence inflation.
We warn you now that some of what you read on Live on Less will make you angry, but please also always keep in mind the fact that "knowledge is power".