One law for the rich, anoher law for the poor.

So your "acts of political unrest" were what exactly?


But based on the latter half of your comment i'm guessing yelling at the police then running away.
 
hurfdurf said:
It's not jealousy when the killers of Ian Thomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes get away with it for years, cover it up, and then are not punished when they are discovered both having committed the crime and covering it up.

It's not jealousy when a bank steals billions, goes bankrupt, but is deemed too big to fail so is given what seems like a never ending supply of money from the government and no one is punished.

It's not jealousy when Politicians steal hundreds of thousands from the public purse to supplement their income all the while lambasting people who stole one one-hundredth worth of goods.

It's corruption.

If someone takes it to the point where we have our own Norway, I will not be surprised, and it is the reason I am so sympathetic with this current class disaffected populace.
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Jesus Christ
 
Is this the first time you've made a thead without resorting to silly names in the opening post?

You should be proud of yourself, well done. You might find people actually read it now.
 
Nix said:
Is this the first time you've made a thead without resorting to silly names in the opening post?
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nope, he edited the paper name.

I never read what Stockhausen quotes any more, he often charges parts of the story so it says something quite different to the original source.
 
Tefal said:
nope, he edited the paper name.

I never read what Stockhausen quotes any more, he often charges parts of the story so it says something quite different to the original source.
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Ah, that'll explain why I didn't bother reading it then. ;)
 
Mr Jack said:
Fascinatingly, in Aztec society those higher up the social ladder were treated more severely not less. For example, the punishment for public drunkenness for a member of the nobility was death, whereas the penalty for a random member of the public was to have their house demolished and their head shaved for the first offence, and death for the second.

The theory was that the nobility should be setting an example to the rest.
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Very interesting, sir!
 
Top 10% of earners pay 53% of all income tax revenue.
Top 50% of earners pay 88.4% of all income tax revenue.

They can do what they like (within reason), they contribute more to society then these looting scum.

Souce - BBC
 
stockhausen said:
I don't believe it. The rioting and looting were wrong and inexcusable. However, it had a cause,
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If a man kills his wife because she has cheated on him, and this happens quite a bit... Does this mean the government should now put into effect public awareness in being faithful? Teaching us how people who are married should not cheat on each other in order for the government to try and reduce how many cheating wives are killed per year???
 
shoes said:
Top 10% of earners pay 53% of all income tax revenue.
Top 50% of earners pay 88.4% of all income tax revenue.

They can do what they like (within reason), they contribute more to society then these looting scum.

Souce - BBC
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nice find I especially like the bit below:

How we react to provocative data also says something about us. So here's another multiple choice question, not about tax, but about you. When you saw the answer, did you…

a. Change your mind in any way about the tax burden?

b. Assimilate this fact into your existing political opinion as fast as possible?

c. Say that this number alone doesn't tell us nearly enough so how can I know what to think?

It doesn't, for example, tell us who pays the Vat, excise duty, or other taxes, it is only about income tax, which is the most progressive of taxes. It doesn't tell us what share of their income each group pays in tax - which will be some people's measure of fairness.

The Office for National Statistics' annual publication about the effect of taxes and benefits (see internet links, above right) suggests that most people actually pay a similar share of their income in taxes when all taxes are taken into account, even up to the top 10 per cent as a whole.

But my guess is that a lot of us are tempted by b: to think less about the data than how it can be used for our side of the argument, rather than to set out by asking the open question implied by c: what data would I need to form a proper opinion?

For this reason, an economist acquaintance of mine says - provocatively - that the facts do not matter to political argument
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scorza said:
So the shelf stacker at Tesco who works hard for 60 hours a week, he gets rich?
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No, mainly because there is no over time. Getting even 36.5 hours is hard enough :p

On a more serious note the opportunities are always there, you work hard & you will at the very least be given the chance to go further. How far? Well that is up to you. I have been given the chance to go further on numerous occasions but did not want to at the time. My brother on the other hand, started out low, worked hard & is now earning 3x what I do.

He is working hard & getting rich while doing it as are many others.
 
Why do people think there's so much value in working hard, people should only have to work well and do the job right, it shouldn't be at the expense of their quality of life, long hours and pressure don't make for a better life, just a more stressful and tiring one with a bit more money.
 
Forde said:
Rich people always have different rules... because they make the rules.
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I was actually pondering the other day... how can you have a government that represents the poor when they're all rich toffs? you can't can you? no wonder Robin Hood was such a legend, I bet the poorest in society have been systematically looted by the rich all throughout history.
 
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