New Blog Post on "Getting The Message out" - "No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"

By Cllr Steve Tierney | Monday, August 09, 2010, 13:56

No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Socialists are such nice and clever people. For instance, If it were up to the socialists we’d all get free lunch! I kid you not.

This is how it would work. It’d start with breakfast, of course, because as we’re often told breakfast is the: “most important meal of the day.” It would be pointed out that: “Many children and many vulnerable adults were just not getting a proper start to the day.” Of course it would then be the job of The State to take care of this problem. The state would point out the obesity ‘epidemic’ and explain that a state-designed healthy breakfast would go a long way to ‘teaching people to eat properly.’ It’d probably throw something about global warming climate change in there somewhere too, because that’s bound to be part of the problem.

The State would then “invest” a few billion pounds into setting the whole thing up. By “invest” I do, of course, mean borrow from China and pour into a brand spanking new fiscal black hole from which money can never escape. Or maybe they’d just print the money, thus conjuring all that breakfast out of thin air (a trick even Jesus never managed. He needed at least some loaves and fishes to get started.)

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@Fibreshack It really is all about parties and ideologies. Each party believes they have the solution to these things - socialists think they can create utopia, free marketeers (like me) think markets will deliver the best outcomes, there are plenty of schools of thought about how to solve these problems you describe. If it were as simple as "XXX is the thing that's wrong" then one or other of the parties WOULD have fixed it. But its not, its about a wholesale change in the way society does things - and such changes are so big, so radical, that people just don't want to chance them. So we muddle on making small changes here and small changes there are trying to 'nudge' society into what we perceive is a better direction. Then, the electoral pendulum swings and the "other" party sets about reversing everything we did because they think it was the wrong way to go.

By Cllr Steve Tierney at 15:09 on 11/08/10
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Thanks everybody. I was feeling a bit agrieved there must be people much worse of than us, i do now get my pills free, all so my hearing aid and batteries come free. Somewhere along the line our welfare system has been hijacked by benefit terrorists and like terroiists they hide in civilian clothes and act normal. I have just heard a story of a couple who have just had to pay back £48,ooo they do not work and have no intention of working but bought a brand new caravan cash all paid with benifits but sombody made a phone call. At least they were caught.

By specss at 14:31 on 11/08/10
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Speccs i seriously sympathise with your position and am in agreement with all you say,...as my earlier post made clear. My household consists of me, my husband and 2 kids. We all work full-time, pay thousands of pounds in tax and NI contributions etc, then we pay again for perscriptions, opticians and dentists etc. I know like you, god forbid we ever really need help we would just not get it.I`m sick of political *****footing and parties blamimg each other. Hard working people like us are really angry about these situations...i`m fed up with being pasified.This is not about socialism...labour has not been in power for the last 48 years...since 1962...every party is too soft to deal with this issue. I would love to eat my words with this new government...watch this space!!!

By Fibreshack at 22:22 on 10/08/10
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Specss - Im sorry to hear about your situation. I find it terrifying that people who do the right thing their whole life find themselves penalised when they need help - while people who have never done the right thing continue to enjoy the fruits of your labor. In our rush to help people in trouble we've made such help a "right" instead of a "charitable assistance" and in trying to de-stigmatise certain lifestyles we've actually made them serious alternative ways to live. There's a political party you can blame for this madness, but I don't think WisbechPeople is the place to be as political as that. I'll give you a clue though - they aren't in power anymore.

By Cllr Steve Tierney at 21:14 on 10/08/10
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How right you are, iv heard all this for years, lay abouts have had there day! Yer right! I have had to stop full time work for health reasons can i get any help for the first time in my life? Of course not. We have worked for every thing we have but worst of all we scimped and saved for our old age in pensions and of course we are taxed because its deemed earned income, im unemployed for the first time in my life but it does not matter its earned income. I have applied for incapacity benifit and so far i have had five medical appointments cancelled by a private company used by the N H S i bet i would be better served if i had been queueing for methadone. I am sorry i didnt intend to right a sob story but i know people i left school with in 1962 who have never worked more than five years if that. If i was younger i would look to immigrate where hard work is rewarded. Some time ago on holiday in the U S A a young lad said to me im comming to England because your payed to do nothing! I couldnt argue.

By specss at 20:20 on 10/08/10
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