Six million four hundred and ninety five thousand three hundred and seventeen (6,495,317) Is the number of people the FTSE100 companies employ and one of them only employs 40 people.

They also represent over 85% of the capitalisation of the country and their CEO's are being castigated because they earn £4.7 million a year and being used as the yard stick in the papers for the inequality of wages in this country!

There are calls for the abolishment of council tax for the poor or base them on a percentage of wages!

It is already, the rich liver in bigger houses and pay more council tax.

Apparently the growing disparity in wages is damaging to society! A little difficult to even find a shred of sense in that statement!

Now lets put this all into perspective.

Mr Rooney of Manchester United fame and many other of his ilk employ no-one. A little of a generalisation I would imagine as I'm sure they do employ someone to wash their Bugatti Veyrons and dust off their silver ware and perhaps the odd adviser or acting coach.

A CEO of the top 100 companies in the UK on average employs sixty four thousand nine hundred and fifty three (64,953) people and earns £4.7 million per year.

Rooney and many of his highly skilled, well educated fellow footballers earn £12 million per year.

There something a little wrong with a media who use as scape goats the very enterprises and people that keep the whole country from falling over into the cess pit of communistic hell!

In the same article the 50p tax is being demanded for the over paid?

How would you define over paid, someone controlling a company vital to the wellbeing, directly or indirectly, of virtually everyone from all walks of life with a ten hour day as standard and every stress related illness know to man?

Or would an over paid person be better defined as someone earning nearly two and a half times more, who's skill and ability benefits absolutely no one, who works part of the year but gets paid for the whole year and continues to do so even if he has periods of uselessness?

So then lets look at what happens when you don't pay people what they are worth in terms of what they can achieve and their ability, and employ someone who will work for a salary more equitable with his employees.

Firstly you will get what you pay for, that's a fact of life, then you will reap what you sow, another fact of life, then you will bleat because the harvest is of a poor quality and has not earned very much and then you get laid off and it becomes the FTSE 99.

Communism did not work, it's no point trying to sneak it back in again under a different guise, there is little chance it will work the second time around!