I was thinking about this the other day but in relation to holidays. I can't get over people taking their kids out of school because it's so expensive to go on holiday while school's out. There's a cunning solution to this problem - take less expensive holidays. If you think it's too expensive to go to that 4 star resort in Portugal in August, this is not because the ministry for education and the holiday companies are ganging up on you, it's because you're poor and the world doesn't owe you a living. Suck it up. Go camping. Or don't buy that flat screen TV - keep the 5 year old CRT that works perfectly well ("It's only 28 inches" does not qualify as "not working") and spend the extra grand on the holiday if you like. Or on healthy, organic food for your fat kids.
It drives me up the wall, it really does. I say let's go for zero tolerance. Let's talk in very loud voices about how it pisses us right off when people want something for nothing. I pay my taxes and social security contributions and you don't hear me complaining about it, but I do it so the state can give these people a baseline of respectable living and they can bloody well appreciate it. I don't do it so they can whinge when they don't get more than the one UK-based holiday a year that my parents got. Where are ration cards and conscription when you need them, eh?
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It drives me up the wall, it really does. I say let's go for zero tolerance. Let's talk in very loud voices about how it pisses us right off when people want something for nothing. I pay my taxes and social security contributions and you don't hear me complaining about it, but I do it so the state can give these people a baseline of respectable living and they can bloody well appreciate it. I don't do it so they can whinge when they don't get more than the one UK-based holiday a year that my parents got. Where are ration cards and conscription when you need them, eh?
Ahem.