This is Kent --
EVERY single one of us is entitled to our own opinion of things; we are even permitted to express what we believe quite freely.
It is OK then for me to sit in the shade and wish for a cooling breeze,and complain of the heat whilst others rush and to the beach and play in the sun. "Isn't the weather lovely!" After the wet spring, the sunny days of July were so welcome to most of us, yet days into the heat wave and over sixty per cent of us were claiming it was too hot.
Aren't we funny people? Still, that's the thing about the weather, there is always something for us to talk about, and we can all have different ideas and nobody will fall out with us no matter what we believe.
Sadly it is not the same when it comes to some of our other ideas. People can get ever so cross if we don't agree with them in some things. We can get so wrapped up in our own ideas that we overlook that there are other points of view just as honestly held as ours. It is so important that these are heard too. There are two sides to everything.
We are, rightly, upset when decisions are taken that affect only us by people we don't know and who do not know us. What do they know of our world, we ask.
In any discussion we need a good strong opposition to make sure that all points of view are heard and considered. The thoughts and the needs of the "little man" have just as much right to be heard as those of the "great and the good" who govern us – sometimes even more right.
The right thing should not only always be done, but it must always be seen to be done. My friend the Carpenter used to tell his friends that they should care for the poor and the weak. The rich and powerful were quite able to look after themselves.
The same applies today and those who govern need to keep this in mind. The "have nots" are not all idle spongers, any more than all the "haves" are. Sadly there will always be a small number who will seek to ride on the backs of the rest of us, but they will be found amongst the ranks of both rich and poor alike.
There are a few who cheat the benefits system, there were a few who cheated the parliamentary expenses system. There are many, however, in both these places who are honourable, and the public are not stupid.
They understand this. The welfare state, born in the aftermath of the Second World War, was a child of the terrible depression of the years just before that war. It makes no sense at all to seek to cure the current problems by doing away with the cure for old, but very similar, problems.
Caring for those in need is something we all need to do, for we can all fall on hard times, and we shall all of us get old, we can't escape that. There will come a time when each one of us, in our turn, will need the help of others and as my friend also said, "as you sow, so shall you reap".
We shall all of us, one day, have to face the cuts we now seek to inflict on others. We need to treat others, now, only in the way that we hope we shall be treated in days to come.
As my friends in Yorkshire would say – "Think on!" God Bless. Reported by This is 3 hours ago.
EVERY single one of us is entitled to our own opinion of things; we are even permitted to express what we believe quite freely.
It is OK then for me to sit in the shade and wish for a cooling breeze,and complain of the heat whilst others rush and to the beach and play in the sun. "Isn't the weather lovely!" After the wet spring, the sunny days of July were so welcome to most of us, yet days into the heat wave and over sixty per cent of us were claiming it was too hot.
Aren't we funny people? Still, that's the thing about the weather, there is always something for us to talk about, and we can all have different ideas and nobody will fall out with us no matter what we believe.
Sadly it is not the same when it comes to some of our other ideas. People can get ever so cross if we don't agree with them in some things. We can get so wrapped up in our own ideas that we overlook that there are other points of view just as honestly held as ours. It is so important that these are heard too. There are two sides to everything.
We are, rightly, upset when decisions are taken that affect only us by people we don't know and who do not know us. What do they know of our world, we ask.
In any discussion we need a good strong opposition to make sure that all points of view are heard and considered. The thoughts and the needs of the "little man" have just as much right to be heard as those of the "great and the good" who govern us – sometimes even more right.
The right thing should not only always be done, but it must always be seen to be done. My friend the Carpenter used to tell his friends that they should care for the poor and the weak. The rich and powerful were quite able to look after themselves.
The same applies today and those who govern need to keep this in mind. The "have nots" are not all idle spongers, any more than all the "haves" are. Sadly there will always be a small number who will seek to ride on the backs of the rest of us, but they will be found amongst the ranks of both rich and poor alike.
There are a few who cheat the benefits system, there were a few who cheated the parliamentary expenses system. There are many, however, in both these places who are honourable, and the public are not stupid.
They understand this. The welfare state, born in the aftermath of the Second World War, was a child of the terrible depression of the years just before that war. It makes no sense at all to seek to cure the current problems by doing away with the cure for old, but very similar, problems.
Caring for those in need is something we all need to do, for we can all fall on hard times, and we shall all of us get old, we can't escape that. There will come a time when each one of us, in our turn, will need the help of others and as my friend also said, "as you sow, so shall you reap".
We shall all of us, one day, have to face the cuts we now seek to inflict on others. We need to treat others, now, only in the way that we hope we shall be treated in days to come.
As my friends in Yorkshire would say – "Think on!" God Bless. Reported by This is 3 hours ago.