hale_bopp wrote:
Maybe so, but it encourages people to get jobs rather than suck of the government.
Off or off of the government you mean? Conservatism encourages people to be nasty and cheat to get their own way like survival for the fittest for those that know how to play the game and it encourages the less well off and disabled to die or turn to crime if there are no alternatives to a decent living standard.
Maybe if low-income people had a more decent standard of living and grew up with this they would be less likely to be critical and nasty. It was under Margaret Thatcher's conservative government and the go-getting selfish attitude prevalent at the time that Britain had more unemployed people than before and so 'creating' an atmosphere in which more people are likely to be unforgiving.
One of the smartest things Maggie and her cronies done when under pressure of industrial action and the collapse of their right-wing government was to finally allow the working classes to buy their council house (after years of conservatives trying to keep serfs paying them for the houses) and so succesfully putting them under pressure to split with their colleagues in left-wing industrial actions because they had to keep up the mortgage of the house unlike some of their colleagues that lived in a council house who where covered by benefits.
Lots of the upper classes get obscenely big benefits, sorry 'grants' (sound much more respectable) to keep their obscenely grand houses and the masses of land to go with it?
Unemployment benefit might not be favoured by the rich but conservative policies works out ways to keep them from doing a hard day's work. Roles like 'advisors' where they maybe spend all of 36 hours of a year 'advising' governments, their agencies, quangos and bureaucrats all seem to make a pretty penny out of doing very little. Then the disabled and the unemployed are supposed to feel guilty about taking a little money from the government that prevents them from dying or turning to crime? Well i wont!
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