hopeless wanderer
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Absolutely ..... certainly in the UK
Many people seem to be victims of an aspirational world where it's "vital" you have a massive flat screen telly/ satellite package , latest mobile , designer brand clothes etc.... not to mention eating out or going to the pub /coffee shop .... they expect all of these as a right ....
It is undoubtedly wrong that a person working full time is often worse off than someone who has no intention of ever working and is a third generation benefits scrounger....
Not sure how any of this is linked to huge great windmills blighting the wild spaces of our country side though .... ;-)
Mum would not let me get a paper round and as for pocket money yeah as for pocket money when i got a summer job she was standing at the door step with hand held open and there disappeared all of me 18 quids but bless her heart she did give me 10 ciggies for the day she was a hard woman and i did learn how to cook a sunday roast dinner clean a house from top to bottom change the beds do the washing and ironing and if i gave her a bit of back chat well best not go there but ended up in tears and sent to bed with no chance of having tea and all before puberty So what have i learned never never back chat a single mother of four even up to the age of 40 mum could put some fear on me if you look around these days at the young mums how many of them have got tourettes syndrome kids are not poor the parents are stupid they got the big flat screen plasma tv latest hand held mobile device on an extortionate contract for the rest of their lives fashion tacky jogging tops and bottoms from the catalogue with shoes to match which goes in the bin after a few days as the mum up the road got a different colour and mum don't want to be looking different and left out of the circle then Oh bugger shit and sugar broke one of me nail extensions nave to get that sorted thats a nice colour have them and can you do my toes to match oh don't I look good cept hair don't match nails but now it does well kid you got a bag of budget crisps for tea tonight Kids ain't poor Parents are Stupid
You'll never fail like common people You'll never watch your life slide out of view And then dance, and drink, and screw Because there's nothing else to do
I think Jarvis Cocker summed it up perfectly. That's why deprived regions are hotbeds of teen pregnancy, drug use crime and anti social behavior.
A lot of things that would help someone who maybe could better themselves have disappeared, A lot of the guys are work with had pretty deprived backgrounds but managed to get apprenticeships. A lot of less practical ones could've got a free university education and a lot more of them could've got a half decent council home in a half decent neighborhood. Now the same people with a chance at a bit of self improvement have got little hope, stuck in a B&B on a housing list or paying private rent to live in the crime ridden neighborhoods signing on. The windmills could be a good thing, the areas of economic decline are the former industrial heartlands of Britain, when we made the move from being a manufacturing economy to a finance/service one these areas fell into decline as nothing was there to replace them. If were building windmills we ought to be doing it here and creating more opportunities than we have been doing, like it or not we are out of the EU and all the patriotism and jingoism doesn't mean shit if we are looking at our infrastructure as something we can award a contract to the French to complete or the Chinese to knock up.