Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
The "poverty" word is an interesting one.

If you want to see what "poverty" actually truly looked' looks like then take a look back at film from the 1900's and right into the 80's.

Watch programmes about the street children of India,Brazil and other countries where tiny tots are foraging on rubbish tips and being looked after by 6,7,8 and 9 year olds.

Poverty is not your 18 stone, tattooed mother who's smoking 40 a day whilst expecting free school meals 123 and you know it and you know it's going on in huge numbers across this country.

My brother ( who I no longer speak to ) has a 28 year old daughter with 5 kids ranging from 10 downwards and she's never done a days work in her life.

Played her mouth constantly to the council due to her lack of bedrooms until she was awarded a nice 5 bedded house paid for by the rest of us.

This is just wrong.

I'm not saying there aren't true cases of poverty even now but i think that the word is misused in the main and it's an insult to those waifs of the 1900's to label today's poorer element using the same terminology.

There can't be that much poverty in this country as those f uckin dinghies keep crossing the channel daily. Don't see these people desperately knocking on the door of countries like Romania!! Why is that!

Some of the poorest streets always seem to have satelite dishes and there always seems enough cash for fags and booze. Strange how jobs like fruit picking - no ****er seems to want to know and you would have thought parents would be desperate to put meals on the table for those kids!

What chance do some kids have with awful parents and the old saying is mostly true - a child is the product of a parent! If parents can't be bothered then what chance does a child have! Everyone is born with the same brain but when in one house there's thieving and the F word used constantly and in another house the mum reads to her child daily and promotes values - you know which child will succeed!