• The post you are reporting:
   
  GaryC - How do you establish in your terms a 'fair share of wealth'?
  
  Ross is right about aspiration. There are all sorts of people, some have ambition and work hard, others prefer a more leisurely lifestyle and will work, look after themselves and manage.
  
  Some people work particularly hard and take risks with their money and their futures, some will fail and other be successful.
  
  Indeed maybe we all go through these various phases in our lives, I myself have done so with a quality of life having taken over some years ago from striving and working all hours.
  
  Sadly there are others who are just happy to live on benefits.
  
  There are people want to rob the hard working and successful in order to give it to scroungers. I hope that's not what you mean.
  
  That said, of course I fully support a temporary safety net for those who fall on bad times to help get them back on their own two feet. I also want a decent system that helps those who through genuine ill-health or disability are unable to help themselves, such people do not fall into my definition of scroungers of course.
  
  The problem we have is that the safety net has gone beyond what it should be and there are too many who take advantage and treat what should be short-term help as a lifestyle.
  
  So please define what you mean by 'fare shares'?
  
  One problem I find with such ideology is that in a process of trying to establish some kind of wealth distribution wealth creation is damaged leaving a much smaller pot so everyone is worse off. The old levelling down to the lowest common denominator and economic crises that left wing politics usually results in.

Report Post

Your Name

Reason