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Oh please! Submitted by Elijah Lineberry on Tue, 2007-11-13 05:41.
It seems that people in Britain have the worst state pension in Europe. The basic state pension is 87 pounds per week and this upsets some idiots who conducted a study on the matter. What a disgrace! Millions of working class people who spend their lives frittering their money away on fish and chips, bingo, football pools, holidays in Blackpool, cheap clothing and pints of best bitter...suddenly expect others to support them in their old age! That is just shocking, and if anything is a jolly good reason for abolishing the pension to teach these people a lesson for a lifetime of extravagant behaviour.
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you actually read the article atlascott?
It says... Millions of Britons are being condemned to poverty in old age by the worst state pension in the EU, a study shows.
This is nonsense, as these people are condemned to poverty because of their lack of Capitalism.
They did not save or invest money when they had the chance.
Considering these people lived and worked through the boom of the late 1950s and early 196s....the 'Barber Boom' of the 1970s ...the 'Roaring 80s' under Thatcher ...and the current 12 years of boomtimes, it seems astounding they saw it all pass by without even a smidgen of an attempt to make any money from it.
To me that is an idiocy I felt a requirement to criticise.
I also reasoned that poor people in Britain (like poor people everywhere else) frittered away their money...which, logically, is the reason they no longer have any.
Calls for increasing pensions are simply attempts to tax rich businessmen to pay for it, and that is something I am opposed to.
I am at a loss as to why an instinctively positive view of rich people is a bad thing?!
The rest of your postings get into the realms of Socialism and I will not bother with it, except to say you are a great disappointment with your typical American appeasement.
And let me add..
...that the idea that one should never go to the pub and enjoy a pint or fish and chips, but instead stay at home their entire lives eating a bowl of gruel under candlelight like some peasant of the 14th century when the world offers so much more, even to poor people, is perhaps the least sense of life supportive contention I have ever seen on this site.
Scott DeSalvo
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!
Elijah
Your tone of disdain for the 'lower classes' is precisely the reason why you'd be the first to hang if anarchy ever comes.
Objectivists who have an outcome-determinative view of character--"if he is rich, he must be of good moral fiber and of good character"--and who have utter disdain for the "lower classes" and their "fish and chips" and "football pools"--disgust me. Try being a human being instead of hiding insecurity behind a wall of what I assured hope is not your real personality. I'd wager 80% of those who you regard as entrepreneurial heroes started in the 'lower classes' and thousands other of good moral fiber and determined and correct action never "made it" and their names have been lost to antiquity.
Not a defense of welfare but a criticism of your tone.
Scott DeSalvo
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!
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