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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
is it ok to have no employment rights,is it ok to let some one die because they are poor  |
In most of the world's countries, the answer would be "yes". This, no doubt, is one of the major reasons that many businesses in the western world, businesses controlled by right-wingers, relocate there, with predictable results for western economies. The nazis and the nips seem to be exceptions; they have caught on to the fact that strong economies are the ones that still see making stuff as important.
But what is wrong with your political view is that you seem to have forgotten that socialism is the politics of change ... you are just as hidebound as the tories you criticize. These are the ones that seem to believe that managing a modern economy is as simple as balancing a cheque book, and that the principles which govern a household economy will do fine for the national one. "Common sense revolutions" (that's the "right", if you are confused), and "What about the workers" are meaningless slogans used as substitutes for thinking.
There is, however, a bright side, one which you have, no doubt, failed to notice. The more that tories move to the right, the more they bring on their own destruction. What is happening to the Republican Party in the U.S. reveals that right wing parties which want to move even further to the right are commiting slow suicide. You should rejoice that British tories are shooting themselves in both feet by moving too far in the wrong direction ... that would be backwards and to the right at the same time.
I'm starting to warm up to Cameron. Not that I would ever vote for him, even if I could. But, at the least, he has the sense to see that, in order to survive, his party has to move to the centre.