Kit-Fox wrote:I have mearly tried to show like Mezz has what has caused the anger you can see spilling out into the streets, this is a product of what the government has actively engaged in & could have been seen coming 20 years ago if they'd bothered to look ahead with some of their ideas & policies.
TBH everyone saw the social problems coming even the politicians, but politicians have short careers and generally dont plan any further ahead than their next election. They are far more interested in short term media satisfying policies, as long term policies for the good of a country are almost always unpopular.
Take social housing as an example, selling off council houses in the late 80s was great in the short term, for a few years it raised lots of money to spend on popular schemes, reduced the need to raise taxes, lowered the running costs of local authorities by removing the maintenance and upkeep of the houses. But nothing was invested in the future, 100ks of houses were sold and only a couple of K built each year, now we have waiting lists 3x higher than the total housing stock, most people on those lists will never be offered a home, the only way to get to the top of the list is to have children you cant afford to support, and without jobs paying enough to rent / buy privately we have teenagers having kids they dont even want simply so they dont have to spend they're lives living with their parents. Also because the life time tenancies weren't changed ( since it would have cost votes ) we have single people who were given 3 or 4 bedroom houses when they were married / had kids, still living in these houses while families are stuch in 1 bed flats.
This just one example, there are many in every area, sale of utility companies, education, taxation, national borrowing in the good times when we should have paid off all national debt, private borrowing against over inflated property prices etc etc, all area's have problems that could & should have been fixed, could & should still be fixed, but are NOT fixed because they would lose votes in the short term.
I sometimes wonder if the world around me is insane or blind, the cause and effects are so obvious yet remain ignored while we're fed media BS about some slapper have an affair or whatever the so called 'news of the day' might be.
Clarkey wrote:It is not a product of the government
It is a product of government, not any one government but a succession of governments of different parties pandering to the short term desires of us the people, and our short term greed.
You say most people dont do these kind of things, rioting, stealing etc, you're right, the ones with nothing to lose do these things, and the number of people with nothing to lose increases every year. I suppose we could do the US way, put millions into prison and use them as slave labor, that could delay the fall into anarchy by a few decades, but as things are going now I estimate we have 50 years tops, since Im 35 already with a bit of luck I wont be around to see it all fall down and my last words wont have to be 'told ya so' lol
