Yes !
It is that time.
All the pundits , all the opinion polls were all proved to be wrong . . .
What am I talking about ? you may wonder. I am only talking about the unpredicted victory of Cameron and co in the General Election.
Eagerly waited or is it dreaded ? The budget will be announced next month by our Honourable chancellor of the exchequer Mr.George Osborne.
Again how much they need to find ? 12 Billion I am being constantly reminded.
Now ! where are they hoping to find this 12 Billion ?
"Benefit cut" the Labour Party and other parties opposed to the government would like to call , but as for the government and the Prime minster it is " welfare reform ".
Why is the big fuss how it is packaged as ? Oh is that what politics is all about ?
Imagine a household with couple of teenagers. Only the dad is working Mum is a house wife. Times are hard because dad had to find a new job with reduced income after being made redundant from a job that paid him handsomely.
But the children kept on buying the designer stuff that they used to buy result ? Credit card bills are getting out of hand . Expense exceeds the income.
Simple maths says that they cannot go like this. Dad calls a family meeting and tells his kids that he has asked their respective credit card companies to cut their credit limit.
One of the kids resist this and call it "a benefit cut " the other kid buys the argument of his parents that they are only trying to balance their books.
Well this simple storey explains the simple economics then why is it hard for us to accept the
government when it put its case in a similar context ?
Well that is human nature . If it happens in our own family we will take drastic action but if it is in the national level then it is the duty of the government to do the necessary actions without affecting our personal life in anyway.
So who is the government are we not in any part responsible of electing the government ?
Is society is some thing different to our own family or a collection of families make the society ?
If all agrees that there need to be some expenditure control then where is the difference of opinion ?
Oh is it that the perception that the Tories are making this cuts to further their political objectives ? Is that what bothering many of us ?
" Benefit" or "welfare" what ever name that we may wish to call was created for the benefit of underprivileged at a time that is different to today.
Travelling was done on horse carts those days but did we not move over to cars , planes and trains now.
If times have changed if the way people live is changed should the systems adopted for the past not be changed ?
The rule of law of life is that you cannot have what you cannot afford unless it is essential things like food, shelter etc.
While the majority of the people who claim benefit are genuinely in need of that there is still a amount of people who abuses the system.
if there are controls put in place to make abuse of the system difficult the genuine people need not to fear because their needs will be identified.
There will not be any use of not changing anything because of fear of changing.
It is easy for us to think let us borrow and enjoy while we live and after our time who bothers ?
If our ancestors did think like that we will not be where we are today.
Let us not bicker how we call it "benefit cut" or "welfare reform" let us seriously look at changing the things for the better. After all we are a democratic country where everything is debated in the open.
The way to be happy is to think about the millions who are below us not thinking about few thousands who are above us because how much higher we go there will always someone who is higher than us.
Sakthi Sakthithasan
It is that time.
All the pundits , all the opinion polls were all proved to be wrong . . .
What am I talking about ? you may wonder. I am only talking about the unpredicted victory of Cameron and co in the General Election.
Again how much they need to find ? 12 Billion I am being constantly reminded.
Now ! where are they hoping to find this 12 Billion ?
"Benefit cut" the Labour Party and other parties opposed to the government would like to call , but as for the government and the Prime minster it is " welfare reform ".
Why is the big fuss how it is packaged as ? Oh is that what politics is all about ?
Imagine a household with couple of teenagers. Only the dad is working Mum is a house wife. Times are hard because dad had to find a new job with reduced income after being made redundant from a job that paid him handsomely.
But the children kept on buying the designer stuff that they used to buy result ? Credit card bills are getting out of hand . Expense exceeds the income.
Simple maths says that they cannot go like this. Dad calls a family meeting and tells his kids that he has asked their respective credit card companies to cut their credit limit.
One of the kids resist this and call it "a benefit cut " the other kid buys the argument of his parents that they are only trying to balance their books.
Well this simple storey explains the simple economics then why is it hard for us to accept the
Well that is human nature . If it happens in our own family we will take drastic action but if it is in the national level then it is the duty of the government to do the necessary actions without affecting our personal life in anyway.
So who is the government are we not in any part responsible of electing the government ?
Is society is some thing different to our own family or a collection of families make the society ?
If all agrees that there need to be some expenditure control then where is the difference of opinion ?
Oh is it that the perception that the Tories are making this cuts to further their political objectives ? Is that what bothering many of us ?
" Benefit" or "welfare" what ever name that we may wish to call was created for the benefit of underprivileged at a time that is different to today.
Travelling was done on horse carts those days but did we not move over to cars , planes and trains now.
If times have changed if the way people live is changed should the systems adopted for the past not be changed ?
The rule of law of life is that you cannot have what you cannot afford unless it is essential things like food, shelter etc.
While the majority of the people who claim benefit are genuinely in need of that there is still a amount of people who abuses the system.
if there are controls put in place to make abuse of the system difficult the genuine people need not to fear because their needs will be identified.
There will not be any use of not changing anything because of fear of changing.
It is easy for us to think let us borrow and enjoy while we live and after our time who bothers ?
If our ancestors did think like that we will not be where we are today.
Let us not bicker how we call it "benefit cut" or "welfare reform" let us seriously look at changing the things for the better. After all we are a democratic country where everything is debated in the open.
The way to be happy is to think about the millions who are below us not thinking about few thousands who are above us because how much higher we go there will always someone who is higher than us.
Sakthi Sakthithasan
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