Tag Archives: welfare

The Deficit: Why our weakest citizens must suffer

Posted on April 24, 2015 by formerdundeeman

What is this deficit we hear about continuously? Why are we driving the weakest people in our society to suicide in order to reduce this deficit? When was the last time someone explained to you exactly what this word and … Continue reading →

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Our Society is Run by Junkies (and don’t kid yourself)

Posted on December 11, 2014 by formerdundeeman

Is society increasingly dominated by people who are for all intents and purposes junkies? Look at the evidence. How do our business leaders and our politicians behave? From a review of the 1992 book When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef: Many politicians behave … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, United Kingdom | Tagged alpha, ayn rand, Business, entrepreneur, neocon, Neoconservative, Neoliberal, self-improvement, welfare | 3 Comments

How did Overhead become more Important than Work?

Posted on December 8, 2014 by formerdundeeman

As a modern society we decide that there is a minimum standard of living and facilities that we are prepared to tolerate. If we had not desired this then we’d all still be living in caves and chasing our food … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Economics, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Poverty, Technology | Tagged Business, economics, freedom, Neoliberal, politics, poverty, welfare | 1 Comment

Holistic Politics vs That’s what you are, what am I?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by formerdundeeman

Increasingly I despair when looking at politics. The average politician these days is a simpleton bully, the kind of moron you had at school who would keep yelling the same line over and over again until everyone else was battered … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Ethics, Independence, Poverty, United Kingdom | Tagged Environment, equality, freedom, independent Scotland, politics, poverty, scottish independence, UK, welfare, workers rights | Leave a comment

Poll Tax Arrears Threat – Pure Evil

Posted on October 4, 2014 by formerdundeeman

What can you honestly say about the plans of various Scottish councils to chase 25 year old poll tax arrears based on voter registrations from the Scottish independence referendum? Think about what this means? Why would they do this after … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Independence, Politics, Poverty, Project Fear, United Kingdom | Tagged freedom, independent Scotland, politics, poll tax, poverty, welfare | Leave a comment

The Elite Will Destroy Themselves (and take the rest of us with them)

Posted on October 1, 2014 by formerdundeeman

There was a feature length documentary a couple of years back that provided me with one of those paradigm shift things that self-improvement gurus are apt to talk about. The film was called “Surviving Progress“. The premise was that there … Continue reading →

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Survivorship Bias: The Fantasy of Big Time

Posted on August 29, 2014 by formerdundeeman

The Art of Thinking Clearly is a book by Rolf Dobelli. It claims to be an international bestseller but I’d never seen it along side all the other self-improvement and management guff during my trawls through airport book shops over … Continue reading →

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How does UK compare with Holland? Badly

Posted on August 28, 2014 by formerdundeeman

How does UK compare with Holland? I’m asked about this once in awhile. To be honest I should be asked this more often by Brits. Because despite the relatively small amount of water between the UK and the Netherlands, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Europe, Independence, Poverty, United Kingdom | Tagged economics, empire, equality, independent Scotland, Neoliberal, poverty, welfare, workers rights | 3 Comments

French Economist Proves What Most Know True: Capitalism is a Rigged Game

Posted on June 2, 2014 by formerdundeeman

Despite the rather feeble nit-picking effort of the Financial Times, French economist Thomas Piketty has done some tremendous work in proving what anyone with their eyes open and without hypocrisy or delusion already knows: capitalism in the form societies have … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Poverty | Tagged equality, Neoliberal, poverty, scottish independence, welfare, workers rights | 2 Comments

Independent Scotland Will Set the UK Free

Posted on April 22, 2014 by formerdundeeman

Beyond the humour and relatively friendly, openness of the people, the overriding, defining trait of the UK is the class system. It has always been so. Living in the Netherlands, relatively free of class differences, and looking back at Blighty … Continue reading →

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