The poor
have always been with us, after all we know that capitalism can't
solve the problem of poverty, it doesn't function with that aim in
mind. All that happens under capitalism is the the levels of poverty
vary from decade to decade. Under capitalism the people have no
control how the wealth they create is distributed, the system demands
the wealth is always syphoned upwards to the few parasites at the
top. The poverty level is like the tide it rise and falls and the
policies of those who manage the system for their corporate bosses,
can have a direct effect on that poverty. The policies being
implemented today are sending millions into poverty and there is the
cry from some that we are heading back to the 30's. I have always
maintained that the present policies being implemented today by this
millionaire cabal at the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and
Corruption, are not, as some proclaim, returning us to the hungry
30's, but are returning us to the Victorian era. Back to the days of
the workhouses, a time when the poor relied on charities and were
graded according to “deserving poor” and “undeserving poor”.
The “deserving poor” if they were lucky, were given a pittance,
for which they had to show extreme gratitude, the “undeserving
poor” were to be punished in some way or other until they showed
remorse for the errors of their ways.
If only those bloody undeserving poor worked as hard as me.
Think Left has a very good article on this particular line of
thought comparing the Poor Act of 1834 with the Workfare 2012.
