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Re: [Phys-l] frizzi


On 2011, Aug 20, , at 20:05, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

Sorry Bernard,

The government did not "pay" for any of your education. Money was taken from other people (who had no real means to resist) and was given to you.


This "sounds" like lawyering.

and they did have (some of them) means of resisting. That's why my education (at UCSB) would now cost about $48k.


Both this administration and the last have spent insane amounts of money with little to show for it except more people expecting entitlements - whether it's Bush's expansion of Medicare and TARP or Obama's "stimulus". Britain has shown the ultimate outcome for all this largess - rioting and looting so people can get more of what they "want" but don't care to work for.


and if they hadn't spent the money? Well, the latest I've heard and read is the banking system would've collapsed and we'd be in a world wide depression. That money was very well spent. The trouble w/ econ. is it's difficult to perform controlled experiments, but the mainstream opinion is it saved us. Now the problem is not spending enuff.


Britain exploded because of the racist metro. police, and an extremely high youth unemployment.
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The picture for 16- to 17-year-olds is bleaker still. When Labour came into power in 1997, around half of 16- to 17-year-olds were working. Now it's just 23.3%, the lowest since figures were collected.

The government has been criticised for its abandonment of the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA), which helps poorer students into further education with a £30 per week grant. The Education Select Committee reported this month that the cuts and its replacement by a new bursary, were "rushed and ill-thought through reforms".

The NUS president, Liam Burns, says the figures show the rise in tuition fees and the scrapping of the EMA will "slam the door of education shut to those who could benefit most, when very few other doors remain open


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/22/youth-employment-rate-lowest

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Note, I suspect, a correlation w/ unemployment, social safety net, and violence and demonstrations, cf.

Greece, and Spain with Sweden

The Scandinavian countries have a strong safety net, a long history of controlled capitalism.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8564500/Interactive-graphic-Youth-unemployment-in-Europe.html


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This is slightly more than two years old. It wasn't stamped out and London is paying for it.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5809800.ece

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They are Racism, Social exclusion and Economics.

RACISM:
This is the main reason why the disturbances in England happened and this is what the UK/English media, politicians and public alike want to dodge. The shooting of a young Afrikan man, Mark Duggan in Tottenham and the violation by the police of a 16 year old Afrikan girl following peaceful protests in to Mr. Duggan's death were the catalyst for the scenes in Tottenham that led to the wider riots.


http://www.modernghana.com/news/345458/1/the-riots-in-england-uncovered-the-true.html

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The met and the MPA patted their backs too soon -- April this year:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13004915


and:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=25961

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When the cottage is content the manor is safe.

bc thinks Bob lives in Νεφελοκοκκυγία.