London's Burning

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by DanaC

The reality is that we have been slowly creeping towards more American style solutions to social problems and this is the result: social dischord.

Do you really believe this? It seems to me that the whole EU and the UK included has the lead in this path to forced reduction of a long term history of expensive social support. Look at Greece, France, Spain, when you peel back the onion of what they have been paying for with from their tax coffers it boggles the mind. No wonder so many are going broke. If there has ever been an argument against "more taxes" will give us more money to take care of the down trodden this should be it. Taxes in the UK are much higher than in the US (I think) and yet they still can't make it and support the systems in place which they have promised the people. Riots aside, you are right the problems are much deeper. I don't have the answers.