One of my continuous rants, the illogical selling off of publicly owned property, is now hitting hard.
Home ownership falls
Strangely enough I re-watched a repeat from 1965 of the TV play 'Cathy come home' yesterday..........................so many years have passed and so little changes.
The right to buy, comes home to roost.
The right to buy, comes home to roost.
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
The right to buy, comes home to roost.
Yes we still end up with governments that most people actually vote against.
Society and its prevailing sense of values leads to another form of alienation. It alienates some from humanity. It partially de-humanises some people, makes them insensitive, ruthless in their handling of fellow human beings, self-centred and grasping. The irony is, they are often considered normal and well-adjusted. It is my sincere contention that anyone who can be totally adjusted to our society is in greater need of psychiatric analysis and treatment than anyone else. They remind me of the character in the novel, Catch 22, the father of Major Major. He was a farmer in the American Mid-West. He hated suggestions for things like medi-care, social services, unemployment benefits or civil rights. He was, however, an enthusiast for the agricultural policies that paid farmers for not bringing their fields under cultivation. From the money he got for not growing alfalfa he bought more land in order not to grow alfalfa. He became rich. Pilgrims came from all over the state to sit at his feet and learn how to be a successful non-grower of alfalfa. His philosophy was simple. The poor didn't work hard enough and so they were poor. He believed that the good Lord gave him two strong hands to grab as much as he could for himself. He is a comic figure. But think – have you not met his like here in Britain? Here in Scotland? I have.
Can't help thinking of philip green and his ilk.
Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech | UK Politics | News | The Independent
We don't have a capiltalist economy any more it's fascist. To paraphrase you can't build an economy on call centres and waiting in hotels and you can't buy a house on £7.50 an hour.
Society and its prevailing sense of values leads to another form of alienation. It alienates some from humanity. It partially de-humanises some people, makes them insensitive, ruthless in their handling of fellow human beings, self-centred and grasping. The irony is, they are often considered normal and well-adjusted. It is my sincere contention that anyone who can be totally adjusted to our society is in greater need of psychiatric analysis and treatment than anyone else. They remind me of the character in the novel, Catch 22, the father of Major Major. He was a farmer in the American Mid-West. He hated suggestions for things like medi-care, social services, unemployment benefits or civil rights. He was, however, an enthusiast for the agricultural policies that paid farmers for not bringing their fields under cultivation. From the money he got for not growing alfalfa he bought more land in order not to grow alfalfa. He became rich. Pilgrims came from all over the state to sit at his feet and learn how to be a successful non-grower of alfalfa. His philosophy was simple. The poor didn't work hard enough and so they were poor. He believed that the good Lord gave him two strong hands to grab as much as he could for himself. He is a comic figure. But think – have you not met his like here in Britain? Here in Scotland? I have.
Can't help thinking of philip green and his ilk.
Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech | UK Politics | News | The Independent
We don't have a capiltalist economy any more it's fascist. To paraphrase you can't build an economy on call centres and waiting in hotels and you can't buy a house on £7.50 an hour.