Worried about being turfed out my home in the future

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My mum and aunt are worriers and keep on saying threatening things like ''the government are so stuck up their own backsides that they don't realise not everyone's rich, and average class citizens like us will probably be on the streets one day.''

The thought of that worries me sick. I like security. Nay, I NEED security. I couldn't bear to be living out on the streets. I am hypersensitive to the cold so I probably will die. And I have social phobia too, and other anxieties, so living on the streets and having to sleep on the streets at night with all people hanging about just feels me with dread. Also I get ill when drinking alcohol hence I don't drink, and there's no way I am taking drugs to survive on the streets. I might turn violent on drugs and start attacking people then get sent to prison or something. Or worse - to a mental hospital.

There's an election coming up next month, and I am definitely voting for labour. The conservatives have been our government for the last 5 years, and I hate David Cameron with a vengeance. He seems to think that there are only rich people in this country, and he seems to hate everybody who aren't rich and just try his best to make us poor. He cuts loads of services so hundreds, if not thousands of people get laid off and have no choice but to go on to unemployment benefits, then he punishes them for being unemployed and slaps a label on all unemployed people calling them ''scroungers''.

What I'm scared of most is people lose their jobs through no fault of their own, and at the moment we do get some financial help, but my mum and aunt say that in the future the conservatives will most likely stop giving financial help to the unemployed, even if they are applying for hundreds of jobs a month but are getting turned down. So then they won't afford to pay their bills and rent, and will then be forced to give up their home and live out on the streets, all because they were at one point working hard, then lost their jobs through redundancy, have been working hard to get another job since but have been turned down because of the vast number of people applying for one job, then unfortunately don't have a magic wand to magic money to pay their bills, so they get punished by being forced out of their homes to just spend the rest of their lives starving and cold outside.

It's so unfair. Why does the government do this? It is so worrying. What if the conservatives get elected again? I can't stand them. According to them, you are f****d if you are poor, disabled, ill, elderly or unconfident. You have to be perfect and rich to live in this country.

Anyone???

This is what happens in a system that has no checks and balances. The writers of the US Constitution were aware of this problem, which is why they tried to balance out the US system so that a small group of radicals couldn't seize power and stomp all over everybody else. We have cuckoo conservatives here too, but they can't seem to get enough of a majority to ram through cuckoo stuff, at least nationally.

In the US state of Georgia they have a situation where the conservatives run the whole show, and not only do they cut welfare but they cut education too. So people can't get welfare AND can't get the education they need for a job. So there are zillions of people competing for unskilled work, while the big corporations that got tax breaks to move to Atlanta have to bring in people from outside the state.

I personally think that if things keep going in the UK like they are now, eventually there will be a revolution. The UK has the highest Gini Coefficient (a measure of wealth concentration, the higher the Gini the more concentrated in a few hands is the wealth) in Western Europe. If the UK govt tried something like throwing millions out of their homes, there would definitely be a revolution.