I’m not sure why everything goes from reflexively all or nothing, but no crisis can go “unmanned,” so we have to find the people responsible…and it isn’t us!!
The problem is always “other,” and when you can find a simply identifiable trait, that’s even better, because you can point to it and then everyone can join in.
The first decades of this century have been ones of mass migration, most of it forced by war and suffering. Hopefully, as the world calms the fuck down, asylum will be less of an issue. However, there will always be the bleeding hearts who open up welcoming arms to all comers. The problem, of course, is that those bleeding hearts are often the ones who never have to pay a penny to help feed, clothe, shelter, educate or medicate those all comers! That, too, is left to “others.”
Quandary.
Perhaps, putting the brakes on and getting one’s own house in order might be a good first step. Alas, I fear that, as Maggie suggested, Britons wanting everything for everyone paid by someone else might be running out of other people’s money!
Until the Benefits CULTURE in Britain is fixed, and until there are serious attempts made to tackle the obesity and related maladies epidemic, it is very hard to see how Britain can afford socialized medicine…and we can all see that it can’t! And, those are just the superficial, low-hanging fruit problems clearly visible from afar.
Dig deeper and you face other serious housing and infrastructure problems that an entitled population, who expect the moon and the stars for pennies, believe they deserve.
Empires fall. Some quicker than others.
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