(06-02-2024, 10:30 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote:(04-02-2024, 10:48 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: With all due respect, that's total bollocks. But very typical of the sort of nonsense trotted out by the extreme right whenever it looks even slightly as though working people & those on low incomes might just possibly have their struggle made a tiny bit easier.
Thanks to the greed based Neo Liberalism (which this country copped a rather extreme version of,sadly for most of us) we now have a situation where those who are well off desperately want to hold on to all they have, those not so badly off desperately want to to become well off & those who are struggling desperately want to keep a roof over their heads & feed their kids.
If we continue down this same road then we'll see a rise in crime & possibly the first deaths from starvation as has happened in the UK, & ultimately, revolution.
There is no good reason why every country, including ours can't manage to as far as possible, increase taxes to cover health, education, welfare.
I cannot see any good reason as to why a wealthy person is more deserving of life saving health treatment than a poor person & that is because there IS no good reason for it.
All govts in every country around the world should have as its first duty, the well being & welfare of all its citizens
And yet under labour, our health system was left to run down. We are ever more dependent on private healthcare in this country than ever before.
Which, as I may just possibly have mentioned once or twice,is entirely due to the imposition of Neo Liberalism here by both National & Labour, over the past 40 odd years; which is going to take rather a lot of fixing.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)