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Originally Posted by cashman
believe it, i have met you! this is have your say thread,n thats the opinion i have come to, if yer not pleased about it- tough.
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What a disrespectful thing to say that could not be further from the truth.
I want to get involved in politics to help people have the same chances I had. I went to Mount Carmel and St Mary's College and had a chance to go to University if that is for you, nothing special. Many never reach that stage. The wealth gap is ever rising, those at the very bottom, even if they wanted to get out of it, struggle to. If somebody wants to work and show their efforts, then they should not be punished through high taxation. They should not be punished in such a way that the jobless on benefits can 'earn' more than they do.
Throwing money at problems does not solve them. Many areas suffer from poverty of ambition. The handouts are enough to sustain them and there is no motivation to seek work. When children grow up seeing that their parents, neighbours, friends, have no ambition to move up in life, they too succumb to the same lifestyle. Why can't we change that? Why can't we try and end the cycles, why can't we get people out of deprivation rather than leaving them behind.
Every aspect of my personal aspirations are to improve peoples lives. One way I can do that is to go into teaching, so I pass on skills and knowledge to a new generation, and hopefully pass on a tiny bit of the passion I have too. In politics, whether I am helping somebody get elected, or perhaps attempting it myself someday, I do so because politics changes lives. I do it because the whole point of having politicians, the whole point of having a government, is to improve the lives and protect peoples rights to freedom. If a government attempts to take these things away - then what is the point in government at all?