Clement Atlee and Labour won the election and we have been going downhill ever since. The welfare state has never worked. Instead of the Government telling the people how to live their lives we should be allowed to make our own decisions. We have to increase the income tax threshold to £10,000, make private healthcare tax deductible and give tax breaks to those with private pensions. Labour now claims more people now have jobs than any time in history. They convieniently ignore that that a large percentage of the un-employed have been booted over to 'disability' benefits and therefore don't count!!! The poorest members of society must be protected but not to the extent that they milk the system and have no inducement to do otherwise. The Polish (et al) have shamed Britain with their desire to work, showing up how lazy and un-skilled we have become. Unless there is a serious change in how Britain functions we are doomed to a future of becoming a sad and pathetic nation. The greatest nation in history is being reduced to a laughing stock. We have to start electing the right people to run our country and I don't mean some numpty who has spent half his life kissing ass in the political system. Political service should be a duty, not an easy little career. Too many of our so called political class have never done a days 'honest' work in their lives and as a consequece we are suffering. Until we start electing people not party clones we don't stand a chance, this applys to all political parties in the free world. Either we stand up for our rights or we die!!
Sunday 18 May 2008
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After you, Theo.
But really - a boy on a bike (Cameron) is not the solution when we are in desperate need of a new Churchill.
Sadly Britain needs to fail a lot more dramatically than it has done so far in order that hardships exist which are necessary to forge characters with that sort of gravitas.
Here is why Western people are becoming so fat and useless:
There is a dream of human progress which makes it to consist in a gradual easing of the lot of man, in the gradual lightening of his task, until the last straw of difficulty has been lifted out of his path, the last peril extinguished, the last lee-shore weathered and all smooth sailing for ever afterwards. May it never come true! Man is not made to live under those conditions; the lines on which he is built are far too high and large to fit into them. He will never accommodate himself to an easy life unless we are to assume that his nature has degenerated in the meantime.
Ill adapted for living an easy life, he is well adapted for living a difficult one. It is precisely when his circumstances are easiest that he gives the poorest account of himself, and the best when he is fighting against odds. Never is he more at home in this universe that when he finds himself “upon an engagement very difficult”. “It behoves the son of man to suffer many things, that he may enter into his glory.” Give him a life in which suffering plays no part, and you defraud him of the core of his being. You say to him: “Be a hero no more. Henceforth, take your ease; eat drink and be merry, be Fortune’s darling and a smiling fool.” A wise man turns his head from your offer with loathing
L.P.Jacks.
Your problem is greater than you imagine, Theo:
"To many, he is the greatest Briton of all time. But it seems that children have a distinctly hazy idea of Winston Churchill's place in history.
One in three primary school pupils think the Second World War leader was the first man to walk on the moon, according to a survey yesterday."
Not much better on our side of the pond either. Sigh.
more>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=539935&in_page_id=1770
So called progressive tax systems are at fault here to a rather large extent. Progressive tax rewards those who fail and punishes those who succeed. We allow those at the lower strata who aren't paying taxes to vote in those politicians who will continue to reward them for failing. A fair flat tax system is not predestined to failure and will do much to energize our democracies...
All well and good, guys. But a society that abandons reason and accountability can not be persuaded by logic. Unless the Western democracies get a grip on reality, soon, and shift their attention from flat-screen TV's and free lunch, to the values that made them great initially, namely self-reliance, pursuit of knowledge, and a willingness to differentiate between good-will and duplicity, we are doomed to revert to a new dark age. It won't be pretty.
The west was in decline from the first PC politician. When the RAF failed to give the bomber crews medals, because they killed too many enemy. From Patton being pulled from command in Italy, and having US Bomber crews paint over their nudes on their planes!
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