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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Cashy, I do get what you are saying...and I am saying that these people are being robbed by those who are on benefits and should not be(for whatever reason) but that essentially it isn't their fault...it is the fault of the system, and the different political parties who encouraged them to claim benefits so that the unemployment figures looked better.
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It's a cop out to say it's the system, as if the "system" had an independent existence. It's the fault of the mean spirited, hard hearted, poor-hating, right to life, anti-gay, right-wing assholes who are running the system. We have tories too. But ours are kept more or less in line because they realize that Canadian voters have already destroyed one conservative party, and that, if they are pushed, they will obliterate the one we have now.
And you mentioned that we had it hard when we were young. Damn right we did. But that's because we had spent our national treasure, and thousands of gallons of blood fighting the krauts. We had rationing not to balance the budget, but because Britain had spent all it had fighting two wars. Not to forget that much of the merchant navy was gathering barnacles at the bottom of the Atlantic. This is not an anti-square head rant, by the way. More power to the Germans for realizing that a vibrant economy has to be based on making stuff, and supplying Germans with well-paid, secure(ish) jobs so that they could buy houses, cars, etc. etc. etc. Lots of folks, no doubt, are out of work over in the land of Uk because those kinds of jobs are no longer there. What the hell kind of economy can you have if 30% of it is in the City of London? I'm willing to bet that if the jobs were there, folks would be working.