Re: "On The Fiddle" - Inverted Snobbery

Silk wrote:
> Ken wrote:
> > Could'nt agree with you more. Watched it to-night. The slight snag I see, is
> > that benefit fraud is against the tax payer. Where as the fiddling at the
> > top is against bloated companies making huge profits and ripping us all off.
>
> It's not just about money, it's the growing underclass of career benefit
> scroungers spawning yet another generation with zero morals who will
> probably never experience working for a living.
>

In that case your gripe is surely with the police, the politicians and
the educators. They made these people what they are.

But I fear you exaggerate. Unemployment is still very low, and whatever
you might say about "New" Labour, they *have* successfully facilitated
some redistribution of the wealth, instead of polarising it into the
hands of a few, as successive Tory governments did.

People are quick to talk about benefit scroungers and dole cheats, but
the establishment keeps very quiet about the huge sums that lie
unclaimed or are with-held through unjust suspensions. And critics of
the poor forget that you can't penalise the poor without having a
detrimental effect upon their children.

Really, if you gave the average person a choice between working for a
living and having a nice house, regular holidays, a pension and a
decent diet, or remaining idle whilst living in a run-down council
estate, spending one week every summer in a cheap caravan and eating
chips with every meal, it's pretty obvious which way they'd go.

> This country is running off the backs of immigrant labour, whilst large
> sections of the indigenous population think up new excuses not to work,
> whilst eating, smoking, drinking and shagging themselves to death
> courtesy of the tax payer.

I think your views are intolerant and disparaging. It's easy to poke
fun at the ill-educated working class, portraying them as
lager-swilling hoodlums, which is part of the problem. If we as a
society don't embrace these people instead of isolating them, then in
twenty years time we'll have a divided country where the wealthy and
intelligent powerholders reside in the countryside and the aggrieved
social misfits hold sway over the cities.

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