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Most people for whatever reason don't have (nor do they need) 2 hot meals a day.
The point was she felt entitled to two hot meals a day. There's nothing wrong with two hot meals a day. But it's not a right.
Can't help but feel with her spending on her pets as well, she just doesn't have her priorities right.
But nobody is here to tell people how they need to live their lives, the problem is with the support system being misused. If you give support to someone in need, its natural to want them to use that support properly. Complaining about this, that and the other and not being able to live your life the way you would like, because you are not given enough, makes me wonder why so many other people understand the notion that if you want something, you have to go out and earn or find an income to get that.
As I said, I've always had a 'trickle down' view, give people money when they need it - hope they spend it wisely, can't fix people who waste the support and their potential. But I'm beginning to feel that's naive.
The issue raised in this program isn't that of 'strivers and shirkers', a rhetoric I wholly disagree with. The issue for me is actually - how many aren't fulfilling their part of the social contract? It's a non zero amount, and in light of the programme my giving people the benefit of the doubt has dimmed somewhat.
Arctic - the Crown Estate pays an order of magnitude in revenues more than any royal costs us. They are technically pseudo-private property, they belong to the ruling monarch. If they went 'private' the loss in revenue would far outweigh the costs of support the royals. Unless of course we are suggesting that for some reason the government should take complete ownership of the Crown Estate and stop any payments?
The royal family are parasites. Far more so than the stereotypical single mum who sprogs just to get a flat. We've paid more for Kate Middleton's fucking nursery than we'd pay in 20 years to a "benefit cheat"
Ergo, if we stopped any annual grants and/or subsidies, surely we would have to give revenues of the royal estate back? No?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw a concise explanation