Jordan~ wrote:Milki, if you read this, a post that you recently left on Facebook put me in mind (after being translated by the ever-fallible Google Translate) or a reactionary railing against the 'benefits culture'. I would caution that it's worth remembering how powerless those who depend on benefits are, though: The underclass have less power than the working class, regardless of their economic status, due to the fact that they can't even fight. The exploited worker can strike, withhold his labour and revolt. The benefit-dependent poor can do nothing, however, except accept what comes their way. Circumstances are wholly beyond their control. They become a kind of manipulable political tool, who would benefit immensely from work but for whom no one has any intention of creating work, lest they cease to be the powerless pawns that they are and become a threat to the prevailing system. The reponse is not to be disgusted with the 'undeserving poor', but to ask who with power benefits from their existence and whose responsibility it is to afford them human dignity and power.
Jordan~ wrote:The Conservative Party, when it's held the country's reins during the last hundred years, and Labour, too, of late, have ensured that these people's lives are ruined to a far greater extent than any riot ever could. There is nothing left to ruin.
Ann wrote:Jordan~ wrote:The Conservative Party, when it's held the country's reins during the last hundred years, and Labour, too, of late, have ensured that these people's lives are ruined to a far greater extent than any riot ever could. There is nothing left to ruin.
Could you elaborate?
queenofnerds wrote:I agree with a lot of what you say Jorden but I do believe you have to earn what you get In life. There is no point in not taking responsibility for your own actions and some of these rioters were burning peoples homes, while people where in them. No justification at all. We need to teach our children to be responsible for their own action and not pass the buck.
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