tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post6472490794187590200..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: Cut, Cut And Cut Again. You Know It's Good For YouThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-49700156210386133732010-10-26T00:38:32.097+01:002010-10-26T00:38:32.097+01:00We've been receiving a fair amount of coverage...We've been receiving a fair amount of coverage about the Tea Party crazies in the media over here too, George. It would almost be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous. Jesus, some of them are so far to the right they make Bush seem like a comic book Fidel Castro.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-33621422919658888022010-10-25T22:10:28.330+01:002010-10-25T22:10:28.330+01:00We are threatened with unimaginable cuts in this c...We are threatened with unimaginable cuts in this country as well, everyone, that is, except banks and other large corporations. Many of the conservatives, especially the Tea Party idiots, are proposing nothing less that a repeal of Roosevelt's New Deal, a reversion to the world in which no one of any age has any protection whatsoever. Where are the protesters of the sixties? When will someone take these so-called western democracies back from the robber barrons? Not anytime soon, I fear. Declines in education, at least in my country, have left us with a growing part of the electorate that is incapable of critical thinking, which, ultimately, is required to sustain a democracy.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-63345973581741191902010-10-25T21:01:44.063+01:002010-10-25T21:01:44.063+01:00My god, it's the same there as it is here in t...My god, it's the same there as it is here in the U.S. The welfare state applies only to the wealthy, and they aren't even required to be accountable for how they spend the money.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-54549571814593914812010-10-25T20:27:41.541+01:002010-10-25T20:27:41.541+01:00thanks Robert - the question i'm living with a...thanks Robert - the question i'm living with and trying to live out is how we can resist, pick up the pieces, and create an alternative reality <br /><br />AndyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-58934698164971216512010-10-25T20:18:18.287+01:002010-10-25T20:18:18.287+01:00How Osborne and Cameron can stand up and say with ...How Osborne and Cameron can stand up and say with a straight face that 'we're all in this together' is beyond incredible. As Friko says, it's women who'll bear the brunt. Not just single mothers, but those who will be trying to care for sick and elderly parents with even less support than is available now.<br />So angry and sad. <br />Gail.WFT Nobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14315143664245246248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-57316508907268809952010-10-25T18:57:54.295+01:002010-10-25T18:57:54.295+01:00Absolutely right, Friko (I mean your first paragra...Absolutely right, Friko (I mean your first paragraph!)The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-29206127411358539412010-10-25T18:55:56.924+01:002010-10-25T18:55:56.924+01:00And, as always, it's women who get it in the n...And, as always, it's women who get it in the neck. Single parents, who have very little, have a lot of that taken away under the new rules.<br /><br />(I forgot, they are mostly the ones who got pregnant deliberately, simply to get free housing, free handouts, free fags and booze. Or so a lady of my acquaintance told me recently)Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-69698207641575563942010-10-25T18:26:41.226+01:002010-10-25T18:26:41.226+01:00Oh dear Robert - for the last few month I have use...Oh dear Robert - for the last few month I have used my advancing age to opt out of making any opinions about the government. But I must say that the recent cuts are making it very hard for me - it is the young people just starting out that I feel sorry for - what chance have they got. No, shall go back into my shell, never to emerge politically again. Sorry.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com