(April 5, 2009 at 4:23 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I don't think that's what people want though bozo. They want the power to choose and the perceived ability to rise to success, just like in America. personally I find it sickeningly selfish. Amazingly the UK population, along with our US counterparts, don't.
The Health Service is an amazing thing. So is UK Education; Local Authority Services; etc etc. People don't want to pay for it. The government meets out the people's wishes by constantly reducing funding to these services with the aim of making it all so that individuals who can pay, get, and those that can't, die/ starve/ rot as is their lot in life.
People can't always have what they want. This country went downhill in 1979 when Thatcher was elected. She sold the myth of a nation of ( successful ) capitalists. She encouraged home ownership. She is directly responsible for the lack of social ownership now available.
I don't think you would bother with hoping to own a property in today's climate, if affordable social housing were available.
People do value the welfare state, I believe. They are prepared to pay for it, but they want it to be there when it's needed.
From Thatcher onwards, that provision has been eroded.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
