single mums - on your bike!, page-36

re: re:tom single mums - on your bike! The philosophy of "I don't like people who think they are owed a living" is a commonly held piece of jingoism. No one is claiming "they are owed" but they are asking for help. Certain circumstances has brought about a situation where a child, or children having been born in a now one-parent situation. To begin extracting an hour here and an hour there fro the lives of these relationships so that there is some dimwitted idea of "mutual obligation" (another form of ridiculous jingoism by this mean and churlish government is fulfilled, is, to me a shameful exhibition of lack of interest in the welfare (and I don't mean financial) of a society. It shows a mean spirit, a fear of generocity, a short sightedness, a system which pushes numbers and people about so that each department balances its books... until all books are no longer necessary since everything becomes privatised.
Mutual obligation, working for the dole, employment agencies which destroy an unemployed person's self esteem and spirit are not builders of a healthy societ but one which promotes and produces an irreversible malaise.
Selfishness comes out of exatly those views.
A person helped is a person who'll help.