Margaret Thatcher!
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- mikotondria30
Yeh, she keeps having to have explained to her that her husband is dead.
I can't imagine that - you've got the lifetime of memories together, and you feel a bit lonely, you look round for your husband...'where is he?', you ask,...but he's gone... again and again.
Dementia is really one of the worst worst things you could ever encounter..
I recently watched a close family member become delirious by being riddle with cancer, which took everything from him - he didn't know where or who he was, totally wrecked him, the end was really a relief from his endless suffering.. Although I was brought up in a area and a social class that taught me to hate Maggie, I hope she and her loved ones find some relief from the long goodbye.
- CALLES0
Britain's "Iron Lady" Thatcher has dementia: daughter
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080…
anyone saw it coming?
- Melanie0
The Thatcher era was incredibly hard for everyone living through it. She privatized everything she could and people were scared of losing their jobs - if they had one. Scotland had some sort of ridiculously high unemployment rate. I didn't know one person who had a job when I was growing up. It was all unemployment and welfare. I think in retrospect she dragged the country out of the dark ages.
Oh and, don't diss the Unions. They've helped us achieve a great many things, but they too need to evolve or they'll go the way of the dinosaur and then we'll be in a right pickle.
- rafalski0
Actually you caused it yourself, by voting for Boris.
It is called the moth effect, as opposed to the butterfly effect
- moth0
Funny you should mention that Raf.
Guess who organised it?
- rafalski0
So who's going for the last drinks in the tube tomorrow? Dinner jackets ready?
- moth0
It would never work Jaline.
We'd probably agree on everything.- I like you both, so....good.Jaline
- I'm glad. You could easily hate us both...moth
- I like you Moth, but am plagued by self-loathing, so you win.mikotondria3
- moth0
I've never liked equestrian.
- Jaline0
miko versus moth, SHOWDOWN
- cosmicEntity0
Yeah but Tits or Ass?
- rafalski0
A major problem with benefits is they're so damn expensive and a large part of goes down the drain as bureaucracy. Politicians don't care, because by giving money to the unemployed they get an army of devoted voters and that's all they care about. It's not like they're spending their own money, is it? They give away the taxpayers' money (yours) and funny enough, they come out as 'generous' in the end.
- mikotondria30
Yeh I can understand how it sounds harsh, but it is the truth. Understanding it doesnt in any way mean Im not compassionate for everyone or believe that everyone deserves equal opportunity for education, or in business, or to develop ideas and have access to capital and security, but honestly I've been around a few places and up and down the social spectrum, and we're fooling ourselves if we think that everyone is capable of holding down and meaningful job and can be around everyone else without ruining their day.
- moth0
Fair enough.
It's just I thought I was the hard line in here....!
- mikotondria30
It's true - it's a small price to pay - where would these people get their daily bread otherwise ? There just arent the number of low-level jobs available and there never will be.
Please understand this is seperate from the concept of people who have come upon genuine temporary hardship, or who are unemployable through disability - that is a proper and just use of govt. revenue, but the unwashed masses who just cannot be employed because they are idiots need to be manipulated out of sight.
- moth0
Crikey miko.
- mikotondria30
The ultimate reason for benefits, and the one that I am happiest with is that the long-term unemployABLE are best managed by giving them just enough to get by.
Imagine if these retards had to go out and GET a job, that would crowd out the bottom end of the job market and make it more difficult for honest people who perhaps don't have a great education or prospects to actually have more of an opportunity to take responsibility for themselves and enjoy some relative freedom.
People stuck on benefits are captives of the state which, in paying for them to sit on their asses, demands all kinds of intrusion and complicity, and rightly so.
Were it not for the small amount of subsistence that the government (you and I) pay these people, they would maraude around, robbing and stealing from necessity - being unemployable.
I am happy to pay some of my hard-earned to keep these long-term trash in their houses watching their tv's - it means they're not serving me food, or on the check out of my local store, or driving my bus.
- PIITB0
Margaret Thatcher Naked On A Cold Day!
- stem0
Yeah vespa, the system of assessment is messed up. When people who 'don't deserve it' receive benefits causes a lot of resentment, when the system that is intended to create fairness itself seems unfair?
It's not an easy one to sort out is it?
- moth0
Yous Posh init Khurram.