I agree most heartily with the highlighted sentence below. That's what it would take, IMO -- more TV, movies, and books that portray the poor as human and those who oppress them as...uh...not so much.
________________________________ From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Life in the real world Yes, for some reason the "conservative" party want the UK to become the 51st state of America. You'd think with the name they'd want to "conserve" what was good about this place but their ideas about what is "good" stopped in 1870. Their entire mission seems to be dragging us back to workhouses and soup kitchens and blaming anyone who needs them as "losers", the undeserving poor. We need a new Charles Dickens, he started the revolution towards a fair society. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : I just wonder what people in the US do when their unemployment runs out and they can't get food stamps anymore and still can't find a job? Do they go to the "underground economy?" Must be a big "underground economy" out there. On 03/07/2014 10:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote: > >That's about the size of it. We've got a bunch of toffs in power who have no experience of life other than in the multi-millionaire mansions they grew up in. They started the recession so they could re-engineer society (and they used to admit it but that gets bad PR so they lie about it now) and create a neo-liberal dreamworld for them and their rich friends. > > >The clever bit was conning the British public into thinking that it's the long term unemployed and disabled that are the enemies of economic growth! Talk about twisted, but with the help of their friends in the right-wing press the UK is flooded with a daily diet of hate directed towards the unemployed and this justifies all sorts of despicable harassment and cuts to benefits and services that almost anyone might need to fall back on one day. Except the multi-millionaire politicians of course. Most people think it's a good thing because they don't like to look behind the headlines of the Daily Mail to find out what is really going on. > > >Here's an example, instead of having doctors assess whether someone who is ill should be at work, the government employs a bunch of unqualified sadists to decide on the basis of whether you can pick up an empty milk carton. Many people have died whilst trying to get these decisions overturned but as so many win their case in the appeal court (people with terminal cancer for instance) the government has removed legal aid for benefit claimants so they can't challenge. And next year they want to start charging the penniless to try and win what they need just to live a barely comfortable life. > > >It's a masterful plan, they create the recession and blame the poorest thus giving the self-righteous majority an easy-to-hate figure but what they never admit is that most people who claim welfare benefits are in work and it's our grossly unfair and expensive housing market that keeps so many in poverty. Luckily for the government they chose their enemy well, the lowest socio-economic groups aren't at all political and are unlikely to try and organise a revolution, which is what we really need. And the majority clearly believe the lies. I'm ready to man the barricades any time! > > >---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : > > >Is it the best of times or the worst of times? Things aren't so happy in >the UK these days. > >"Starved & evicted: Britain’s poor now treated worse than animals" > >http://rt.com/op-edge/uk-poor-treated-animals-398/ > >So it goes during this "Mother of All Depressions". Perhaps the folks of >"PeopleVille" have a solution: >http://youtu.be/MbgBpldEazo > >Otherwise this may be the future: >http://youtu.be/eaXgXf1bVXs
