Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP from South East England, is becoming one of my more favored politicians. I do not know too much about him as of yet, but when he does cross my radar he seems to typically have intelligent things to say.
You can read a short article written by him on the Conservative's role with poverty in England here.
He's certainly correct to say "poverty is not simply an absence of money."
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Unfortunately, when people were more "respectable", there were still poor people. Moreover, how Duncan proposes to solve the problems he identifies as a part of the problem of poverty is beyond me. They happened even in the most moralistic times. They are personal, not problems that can be solved easily. Social safety nets and high wages, those can be instituted easily.
Throw money at it till its fixed?
No, not thrown money at it. That is an ideological description. I agree that personal problems should be tackled as well, but not at the expense of the social safety nets and high wages.
And you would tackle social problems by . . . throwing money at it?
No, not throwing money at it. That is an ideological description of the libertards. I agree that personal problems should be tackled as well, but not at the expense of the social safety nets and high wages.
You say not throwing money at it, but then you would use it as a reason to create more public debt or increase taxes so that funding could be increased.
No, I don't support social spending to "create more debt". I support it as a way of tempering capitalism and helping people.
I support it to, as long as it doesn't create debt, it's not printed, and it's not stolen.
"I support it to, as long as it doesn't create debt, it's not printed, and it's not stolen."
Lol, a limited amount of debt is okay. Even Thomas Jefferson thought so!
I agree with the printing thing, but only in relation to too much being printed.
Taxes are not stealing, Josh.
Because you put a comma and then my name, you are oh so much more convincing.
I never gave explicit permission to give away $500 last friday.
Debt is okay for necessities, social spending is not necessities.
I personally believe the only time a government should be able to take on debt is if there is an imminent threat to the country and it is required for survival. Whether or Jefferson agrees or not, I have not yet heard a convincing, logical argument to believe otherwise.
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