Casdon
Baggs
Casdon
Baggs
Charity is always a good thing, regardless of whose 'fault' the need is perceived to be.
Charity should not be needed in the fifth richest nation in the world to pay for basic necessities of life. Charity is a good way to supplement peoples lives, to enrich them and support their quality of life. Something is very seriously wrong with a rich society that expects people to use a food bank to survive.
I agree that it shouldn't be necessary but it is so people who are helping the unnecessarily needy are being charitable, which is a good thing.
Which is what I said above. Do not assume I meant more than I actually said. Nor you, maiz, because that's what you're doing too.
Baggs your comment was meant in a political context, otherwise you wouldn’t have highlighted the word ‘fault’ - I didn’t assume, I knew exactly what you meant. What do you mean by the way when you say ‘unnecessarily needy’, that’s also a political comment?
You did assume, casdon. You don't know why I 'highlighted' the word fault. I'll tell you, and yes, it was political but not party political. the reason I accented fault is because I think the reasons food banks are needed are complicated.
One 'complication' I struggle with is that, for all the talk of people not having enough to eat in this country, one doesn't see many actually thin people about, whereas if you look at old photographs of people in this country from two or three generations ago, you do. This, to me, means that poverty is relative at least to some extent.
I've been poor enough in the eighties myself to qualify for free milk for my kids but I and they have never not had enough to eat and never looked as skinny as kids my dad went to school with in a mining village in Yorkshire.