Previous post9 Nov 2019 20:09
Sorry, I've done it again. I have recently purchased a new tablet, and it either posts when, I've succumbed to relieving my frustrations by writing posts I usually decide not to post or, before I've finished and decided whether to post or not. Fat fingers. But to finish
I'm grateful to the safety net of the system (but not legal aid which is the lawyers' money for nothing pocket money). But take time to watch a food bank and see how many drive to get there, have expensive tattoos, and smoke etc. It is not poverty in most, not all, cases, but simple mismanagement of resources, very often as they have no sense if responsibility: look no further than unmarried mothers / fathers who expect the state to house them. None of us are perfect, but most of us try. The most hard working woman, with a heart of gold, I ever employed was always 'skint' but always found money for her kids and partner to booze away, or for fags, and / or tattoos, but always hiding from the rent man.
We all want to take care of the needy, but not the workshy greedy, as but for the grace of god.....
In summary, as this post is turning into a rant, social justice seldom comes from socialism, but from the benefits of capitalism, and there is a lot wrong witb that, but it does pay for the net which we demand for the unfortunate. I was was told by an RE teacher, with respect to all, that she considered that islamism was socialism, judaism was capitalism, and christianity was somewhere in between. GLA. I