I want this, I want that. It’s bad enough having to listen to someone’s constant whining without voluntarily having to listen to a dozen spoilt rich kids on television. Not only do these spoilt rich kids whine and complain to their parents, but they also spend an enormous amount of money on, wait for it, a 16th BIRTHDAY PARTY. Now I’m certainly not one to spoil the fun when it comes to a party, but I have to draw the line at spending $500,000. This ridiculous amount of money is spent on each party for a MTV program called ‘My Super Sweet 16’.

Now on its second episode, I watched an excerpt of its new series last week. Fuelled with all the over-indulged pampered brats they could find, I felt a deep resentment and sadness building up in me as I watched it in disbelief. How can a boy of 15 spend $250,000 on some jewellery? What morals is this teaching the new generation? More importantly I could think of a million other worthwhile things it could be spent on in this world; people are dying from starvation while a 15 year old boy drives around in his chauffeured limousine with the upmost designer clothes-something he hasn’t even earnt himself.

You may think it’s someone’s right to choose what they spend their money on, which is totally true but these kids haven’t worked a day in their life. Their soul existence depends on the misshapen dream that so many of these teenagers seem to have, they believe that one day they will be famous no matter of the lack of talent or laziness that clouds their vision. This is shown when 90% of them have friends lining the street screaming while they pull up in a limousine, I’m not exaggerating. Most of all, it places a gigantic importance on one day and the aim is to make their so called friends jealous.

Here people are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on their children in a nation where over 37 million families live in abject poverty and on less than $20, 000 a year. Don’t tell me you don’t know what the morally right thing to do is.