I cannot believe that in the 21st Century we have people advocating "culling", "sterilisation" of people who receive welfare benefits. I shook my head with disbelief as people typed this right wing tory/bnp rubbish into a chatroom.
Why the hell did our forefathers give their lives to rid us of the evils of nazism, they wasted their time, it is alive and well in Great Britain, spurred on by the press.
The targets - people on benefits, particularly single mothers, but also the sick and disabled.
One bright spark announced - cut their benefits they'll soon get better, this from a supposedly educated person. Illnesses like epilepsy, diabetes, arthritis, cancer and many other illnesses don't disappear overnight - taking away the benefits of people with conditions like this will mean they won't get treatment. We would just revert to pre welfare system. Those with any savings or any income would live, those without, tough.
Then we have cull them and sterilise them brigade - it is very easy to target women, single mothers, and whilst I agree that some do have babies for benefits, what about those who are single through divorce or widowhood. No one knows what is going to happen to them, I didn't know when I got married that in less than ten years I would be widowed with a small child. You could have an accident, be ill, lose your job - it doesn't make you less of a person, it doesn't warrant being culled or sterilised either.
And why only target the women - I always thought it took a man and a woman to make a baby - yet only the women are targetted - and why should the children suffer. This government pledged to end child poverty. Yet the very groups that are impoverished are yet again targetted.
It seems this hysteria against people on benefits, spurred on by the vermin press, and brainwashing people to despise those who, through no fault of their own in the majority of cases, are less fortunate. The breakdown of christian (and other religious values) and the selfish attitude which came into the fore during the Thatcher years, have all played a part in the situation we see today.
Have we learnt nothing from the 40's? Blaming groups of people for the misfortunes of all societies - let's make these people second class citizens, better still they are sub human, inferior. Let's not let them have any human rights. Then what follows? A return to the gas chambers?
You can't work therefore you die - I could envisage some of the chatroom participants stood there pointing the way.
I am not assured that the right groups i.e. those who are workshy and abusing the system will be targetted, as in the past, great mistakes have been made against sick and disabled people - the genuine always suffer.
At a time of recession, when more people are losing their jobs, and more pressure is put on the few, again spurred on by the press, those who may need help may not get it. There will be people in such despair who will see no way out.
"Blessed are the poor for they shall see the Kingdom of God" - a bit sooner than they should if these far right thinking twonkos, with their superiority, have their way.
Linda
