http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/ukpoverty/in-depth-attitudes.html
"What we're calling for
Everyone – you, me, our friends and neighbours, the media, local and national government, and people who run and staff public services – should challenge our own and other people’s attitudes to people living in poverty. Only when we all understand the reality of poverty in the UK can we really aim to abolish it for good."
So hear in repsonse to Oxfam's call is:
My challenge to my own and other people's attitudes to people living in poverty-
There are people in the world who need money to live. I hear there is a problem called poverty, which refers to death by financial means.
On investigation of the problem, should we not ask why the other wealthy people are unwilling or unable to help?
Wealthy people get less wealthy when they give money to save lives and then require help themselves.
People love to help so they volunteer their time to help others though they may have no money.
Everyone wants to help so agree that banks can create money and it can be used to keep poor people going, on condition that the people somehow earn more money than they spend, which they obviously can't do or there wouldn't be a problem. But people want to help so even though it's not working we decide to create more money to give to banks, who by now are unimaginably fantastically rich through creating money to give to poor people. For some reason that we will go into later, we insist that banks are legally obliged to unrealistically demand more money back from the poor people than they were given and then take all the poor people's property.
So in America they have food stamps, we don't have those in the UK yet do we? But we do have people starving to death in the cold, which I previously thought of as an American thing.
19 October 2011
BBC NEWS-
" There are 27,000 extra deaths in the UK each winter compared to other times of year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The report found most of this was due to cold weather.
That figure is one of the highest in Europe and worse than Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway and France."
So they were talking about millions of homes in UK can't afford heating and/or food.
The only help being talked about was to get people better insulation because of 'climate change'. Politically it is a good move for the government to say, 'We will help poor people to save on fuel so we don't fell so bad when we all go jet-skiing and/or listen to Readiohead, but we don't think it's a problem that mountains of food are thrown away while people starve, because if we just gave food away then we would feel bad about how hard we worked for our food as a jet-ski instructor or member of the band Radiohead and we would be scared when we hear the poor people farting after their feast and worrying about how their 'carbon fartprints' will affect our children's unborn children.' But that is only if we don't recognise that it is the whole unaddressed movement of fear that creates the violence of poverty. There is an avoidable death, from starvation, and we label it poverty death.
While I'm on this 'climate change' situation
The government has to promote energy efficiency to the public for political reasons.
Corporations can earn more money through increased energy consumption.
There is an increase in energy consumption to begin with, refitting houses and manufacturing 'efficient' technology in a way that is not itself sustainable and is probably designed to fail so you need to replace it or maybe it can only be fixed by a company engineer, who knows? If the government is eager to implement legislation then it's probably not in our best interest. It does seem like there is a public outcry for energy efficiency and lots of good work being done, but to really live sustainably is an affront to the system of poverty that is projected to provide gratification for people who work for money. I feel violence like poverty and/or war is more important right? than 'global warming', as is the terrible violence committed against our children and all Earthlings as part of a continuation of our violent invasive mining of the Earth. Anyway... next post, mining, perhaps.
