shoes said:
Ahh I see, so because the little shits have been left with ONLY a roof over their heads, food on their plates, relief from the council tax the rest of us pay, heating, electricity and fresh running water with some cash to boot thanks to the reckless overspending of their beloved new labour joke of a government and sensible austerity measures of the current conservative government they have a right to riot? The fact that they're so ****ing thick that they take out their unreasonable resentment towards the state on private businesses and decent ordinary hard working people is fine?
Nobody is saying the behaviour is "fine". Like it or not there are underlying reasons for the occurrence of rioting. Discussing those reasons isn't condoning the behaviour. The more we marginalise parts of society decade after decade and the more inequality grows, the more likely behaviour like this is to manifest itself.
Moving slightly away from the reasons for rioting, it is interesting that on one hand you condemn the behaviour of rioters / looters but then on the other you fervantly support a free market system that when it comes down to it just loots other people albeit in a less in your face way. Take Coca Cola who have been linked to Columbian death squads shooting workers who stand up for their rights, who have set up factories in drought prone areas of India then drained all the water out of the water table and f**ked over all the local farmers out of their livelihood. Innocent "Ordinary hard working people" suffer all over the place having their resources and their communities effectively looted to line the pockets of shareholders. Not a lot different really, but presume you don't boycott Coca Cola products?
Or what about banks who have looted our economy to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds because some fat red bracer wearing traders gambled with our money?
While you're condemning the less well off in society in one go, just consider that the rioters aren't the only looters and aren't the only ones who have destroyed homes and livelihoods. I am not condoning their behaviour at all - there have been some pretty disgusting episodes shown on the news.
The free market system also plays a part in the demand for instant gratification and sense of entitlement that people seem to have. Can't afford it? Don't worry you can have lots of credit regardless of if you can actually pay it back. Credit has been advertised as effectively free money rather than something you have to pay back. That also played a part in the banking crisis.
The best thing to help this country out of the mess it's in is to impose a blanket ban on the poor from breeding
So you're basically advocating Nazi Germany eugenics? (which the Americans also supported...)
I literally couldn't give a money's about the gap between the rich and poor increasing, the poor deserve it as far as I can see.
It is precisely this attitude that has contributed to the mess we're in...
As for tax avoiders - well their tax only goes to the undeserving poor anyway so who cares?
So you don't benefit from public spending then?
