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August 9, 2011

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has said that the problem behind the urban disorder is a 'complete lack of responsibility'. Something to do with bad parenting and the welfare state apparently. The trouble is he and his fellow conservatives only pointing to those on the margins of society whom the Victorians called the criminal class.

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The bankers, who caused the global financial crisis that has lead to an economic recession are left free to do as they please. They demand big cuts in the welfare state to pay back the public debt that occurred from the state saving the banks from collapse and say that an entitlement culture is morally wrong.

It's not the bankers who are immoral, sick or nihilistic. Only the destitute teenagers deemed sociopathic by Britain's tabloid press. It's all due to allowing the welfare system to prop up immoral lifestyles based on no personal responsibility and parents being allowed to abdicate responsibility for the behaviour of their children.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 9:40 PM |