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**Big A** · 08-16-2011, 03:05 PM

Italy announced a programme of austerity. The people now know what to expect. In England there was no such announcement and so the public thought it would always be business as usual. It's wake up time. There is no British empire and what is left of the commonwealth looks after its own first. There are many Island nations that have next to no natural resources and one only has to look how they fare in this global economy. Even the Philippines has more going for it than Brittain. The poor in the West have more options than 90% of the world. If this is about race and class, why are Indian and Chinese immigrants in the UK so successful?

They have higher education rates, better jobs, and almost non-existent rates of broken families, teenage pregnancies, drug pedlers, or gangs running wild. The UK police had to make appeals to the parents of the rioters to come find their kids, because they have absentee fathers, and mothers hooked up on drugs.

I am not judging these people, for what circumstances they find themselves in, but Cameron is right that this is a moral issue.

If all moral choices are subjective, then we can continue to make excuses, while countries are burnt down.

08-16-2011, 03:05 PM	#5
Big A Join Date Oct 2005 Age 51 Posts 4,148 Administrator	Italy announced a programme of austerity. The people now know what to expect. In England there was no such announcement and so the public thought it would always be business as usual. It's wake up time. There is no British empire and what is left of the commonwealth looks after its own first. There are many Island nations that have next to no natural resources and one only has to look how they fare in this global economy. Even the Philippines has more going for it than Brittain. The poor in the West have more options than 90% of the world. If this is about race and class, why are Indian and Chinese immigrants in the UK so successful? They have higher education rates, better jobs, and almost non-existent rates of broken families, teenage pregnancies, drug pedlers, or gangs running wild. The UK police had to make appeals to the parents of the rioters to come find their kids, because they have absentee fathers, and mothers hooked up on drugs. I am not judging these people, for what circumstances they find themselves in, but Cameron is right that this is a moral issue. If all moral choices are subjective, then we can continue to make excuses, while countries are burnt down.
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