What ever happened to workhouses, poorhouses and the poor laws?
What planet are you on……you need to read a bit of history about these places befor you start to condemn everyone who is out of work for whatever reason. if you were to read up a little about these places, you would realise that they were not so great. Whilst i agree that most people should be in work, there are a few people who are unable to work for health related reasons and others…..i ask you, would you condemn them to a life of squalor, because they simply cant work. Do you know anything of the history of these places……they did not promote self reliance away from the state, but were places of of squalor, that kept the poor and depraved where the authorities thought they belonged. You seem to think that the poor of our country should be shoved under the carpet so to speak, and forgotten about……where is your compassion for the people who have fallen on hard times. Whilst i agree with the fact that there are a minority of people who do not want to work, the majority of p
They dissappeared in the UK before we got rid of them in the U.S. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” The author of that maxim, Benjamin Franklin, visited London in 1766 and was struck by how a British welfare act was teaching the opposite: There is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken and insolent. The day you passed that act you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness…Repeal that law and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday will cease to be holidays. Franklins horrified reaction was typical early American response to government welfare programs.
