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Originally Posted by Mancie
The article is more about working families on the edge of what UNESCO class as poverty.. of course there can't be any comparision to people starving in some parts of the world and the this country... but some of the responses on here have the attitude that no familes in the UK can be classed as poor.
The usual "we had it hard in thowd days and so should this lot" snaps of a race to the bottom...to me this attitude fuels the governments obvious policiy of bringing middle to low earners down down a peg or two in economic terms.
If millions of working families in the UK are on the verge of "poverty" then it is surely a matter of concern.. and not just a chance to have a dig at so called poor people.
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I was tempted to answer this post earlier on.......but didn't have time...sausages to prick, clinkers to poke and real life to get on with. Mancie, you see in posts something that you want to see, and always with a political stance.....you interpret them subjectively.
I haven't seen anyone who has said the kind of thing you have quoted....and when people have mentioned their impoverished past, that doesn't
necessarily mean they think that people today should expereince the same....they are making a comparison to what it was like then ....and what it is like now.
I would not wish poverty on anyone....mainly because I have been impoverished......financially that is.
Poverty imprints itself on you and changes your relationship with money and acquisition of goods.
It
can also be very productive....it can make you
resilient, self reliant and resourceful......but this only happens when you are prepared to get out there and graft. Graft at
anything. Work
isn't just about money, it is about aspiration, self worth...being part of a society that is useful...rather than sitting back and expecting someone else to do the legwork.
I'm pretty sure you will find some political slant to put on this...where there is none.
There are different kinds of poverty.......and lots of them have nothing at all to do with what you have, where you live, or what you do for a living, or for that matter what political views you hold.