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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    I think your best bet is to delete that garbage or ask your leader if he can rescue you with some prompt editing .
    I will naturally metaphorically "bin it "
    He has a "leader"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Oh no! Cary gets punched in his titties again.

    Quiet everybody .
    Is that an echo I hear?
    Or is it that a Great Tit imitating a Cuckoo ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post


    Is this leader significant?
    No , I gather he is Hilly Billy , middle American but not very tall .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    But consider the poverty level. In the US much of the poor have smart phones, high speed internet, and HDTV. How about in the UK?

    They are also part of the uniform among our own lovely people .
    I have one customer who has a 50 inch TV in a living room which is at best 12 feet x 10 feet . And another TV , possibly bigger , in the room next door which is probably smaller . Unfortunately the parents have been allowed to breed twice . Roughly twice more than should be allowed by law!!!!!
    In fairness the Father does work .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    No , I gather he is Hilly Billy , middle American but not very tall .
    Ah, an overgrown Smurf?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Oh no! Cary gets punched in his titties again.

    I am pleased that you now realise that even we have these same problems that beset all of the developed world .
    It is appreciated that you thought of us so highly that you imagined our society was perfect . However , we must make sure that we never reach the levels of US poverty that we so tragically see .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    Ah, an overgrown Smurf?

    Chris Smurf .
    You are right . That does have a certain ring to it . Which probably explains the constant echo . The echo note is in D minor I believe .

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    I want you to look at what is considered poverty today!

    It is next to the chart on about the 4th page

    http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc10_eng.pdf

    using that list everyone I knew when I was a child was in poverty and we just did not know it.

    The largest problem in the wealthy countries is we ahve taken all responsibility away from the family unit and transfered it to the govenrment,

    It is time that people started to earn their keep. And then and only then can they start to feel the pride of a job well done and pull themselves out of the depths of dispair

    We started the war on poverty in this country in the 60's with zero results after tossing hundreds of billions of dollars at it. Some people will do just as little as possible to get by, weather it requires work as it did in the 60's ore they choose to live on the system as they do today.

    It would be nice if we could chage it be even Jesus said you will always have the poor! It is time to change welfare into workfair so people can experence some pride in there lives

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    Quote Originally Posted by zelmo1234 View Post

    It would be nice if we could chage it be even Jesus said you will always have the poor! It is time to change welfare into workfair so people can experence some pride in there lives
    I have often heard in my career (in Public Service employment services) uninformed opinions about workfare, work for the dole or whatever you want to call it. This is one of them.

    Periodically, governments introduce such programmes primarily to look good in the eyes of their constituents. These governments also tend to be rightwing which is where such punitive policies tend to play best.

    The problem is, and has always been, is that these programmes do not work on multiple levels. Even if you ignore the moral hazard of making people work for a pittance, there are a raft of practical reasons to avoid this sort of largely rhetorical policy approach to welfare and work.

    I can't be bothered going into them all here. Demotivation, administrative cost, job displacement, and fraud are just a few. And there are many studies that demonstrate these.

    Put simply, it is a punitive approach that just does not work. What does work is that the private sector creates meaningful jobs and does not leave it to governments to do it for them.

    I suspect you will miss the irony of that.
    Last edited by Awryly; 01-11-2013 at 08:44 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    Quiet everybody .
    Is that an echo I hear?
    Or is it that a Great Tit imitating a Cuckoo ?


    P.S. You may be a Gofer but make sure you get the minimum pay rate
    It is the room still spinning, Cary? That would account for the lame jokes but so would your sense of humor.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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