Our tennis players aspire to greatness but slip at the last, and often first hurdle.
Who cares?
Our National Health service though catering to all, is NO WHERE near the quality it should be.
Yeah, well, if people hadn't voted for the Tories (who underinvested in the Health Service for almost two decades so they could cut taxes), then the hospitals wouldn't have been in such a bad state after Labour came in. The amount of money going into the Health Service has doubled and will still not reach the European average for a couple of years. People voted for low taxes and then whined about a decaying health service. Silly people.
My neighbours 15 year old daughter is pregnant. Father unknown. Her 17 year old sons girlfriend, who is 15, is pregnant.
Knowing what sex education is like in the UK, I'm not surprised. In Holland teen pregnancy is 1/4 of the UK and they start having sex later - they just prepare kids for teenage life better.
Young people in general are not striving for education, good jobs, money, only for quick fixes.
Ah, thing is, more young people are in higher education than ever before. So, in general, young people ARE striving for education.
Hence my question: If the UK abolished the welfare state and National Health Service, after the first ten or so years would the country be a better place to live in?
If people had to face the real costs of their behaviour would they be more likely to gain ambition to work hard and support themselves and save for the future if they saw their fellow man struggling to survive scouring the rubbish tips and living on the streets.
Now I wouldn't want to see people in those terrible situations but does the fact that we have a safety net mean that people are willing to survive on government handouts and never seek education or 'good' jobs for themselves?
Go to America. That will answer your questions. The answers are 'no', 'no', and 'no'. Welfare states and non-welfare states BOTH have parasitic criminal badly socialised underclasses.
We have the highest rate of teen pregnancys in the world.
No, that would be the USA.
These girls automatically qualify for a meal ticket for life.
Likewise in other welfare states with teen pregnancy 1/4 of the UK. Those that do have kids have a meal ticket, but FAR LESS do. It's not the welfare that causes this problem, it's the sexual education.
Their boyfriends, if they're still with them, also qualify just to make sure that the baby has enough to eat and a roof over its head. Is it time to stop ALL benefits, except for serious illness benefits?
No.
I think, it might be the best thing for this country and give the people back their drive for self sufficiency and ambition.
Do you seriously think so? The people who don't have a drive for self sufficieny and ambition won't suddenley become motivated and independant. They'll just move to other (chiefly illegal) methods of surviving, as many do anyway.
Quite frankly the best way to motivate people is by creating opportunity. The lack of motivation many have is caused by benefit traps on one hand (although now new measures remove the 'penlaty' of starting work to a greater extent than before), and lack of any opportunity for betterment on the other.
The true parasitic element can't be changed, but for many real work opportunities or educational opportunities are denied them - often the former because of the lack of the latter. Give them the opportunities and a smooth transtion to work and you get someone back as a nett contributor to society.
Cut of benefits and you just cause more problems. Attack the reasons why many are on benefits and you reduce the number on benefits. Yo! tal!!!!
I LOVE the idea of chav-chasing death squads....
Oh, they have these in Brazil to deal with the street children...
Jeepers creepers - have you lot been reading the Daily Mail again??? It's not serious you know, try to treat it like the beano
The voice of reason - this hoodie/chav nonsense is the 2005 media 'thang', and all it is is a thang. Last year it was immigrants. Think about WHY a news item is making you think the way it is, otherwise you're a puppet on a string being jerked around by a journalist. Hint; this is not dignified.
As for melting old people for glue... think of the smell! They honk bad enough as it is.
What I want to know is why people do not have as much enthusiasm for going after the mega-rich. Quite seriously lower tax bands for the lowest paid could easily be paid for by taxing the super rich. The poor get richer, the rich are rich anyway, so fuck 'em, what's one Rolex less?
And thank you Mutz; I was going to use corporate corruption as the killer punch to all this misplaced hate of those on benefit some have, and all the misapprehensions about the damage welfare does to society that others have.
Big business screws the country 40 times harder than all people on welfare put together.
However, it's much easier to pick on the poor, they are an easy target.
The very ones who don`t pay workers a living wage ... thinking Walmart, McDonald`s, etc. etc. etc.
Did you hear Mr Walmart died in a crash yesterday? Awww... poor little dead billionaire exploiting bastard...
I have of one single mother who said that the reason they started Welfare State was so she could have babies at taxpayers expenses or something like that
And I heard of one person who said there was a UFO behind a comet? What idiots say is not of any interest.