The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163386   Message #3898493
Posted By: Steve Shaw
10-Jan-18 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Homelessness a Personal Choice?
Subject: RE: BS: Homelessness a Personal Choice?
I have no time whatsoever for dogs (more their legions of irresponsible owners, actually), but we are pet-owning democracies and I fully accept the need to have humane facilities for pets that come upon unfortunate times. A discussion which constantly complains about comparative amounts spent on dogs/ cats/students/the homeless is puerile. The people posting in these threads all live in countries that can well afford to look after all the dogs, cats, students and the homeless. It's just that we put our fiscal priorities elsewhere. Tax cuts for the upper and middle classes, tax breaks for massive corporations, indulgent treatment for parasites who hide their money offshore, an unregulated and cruel private rental sector, you name it. In this country, we even have a ridiculous scheme that gives the biggest and richest landowners subsidies of half a million or more a year, when what we should be doing is taxing the arses off them. On top of that, and in spite of the lesson of the last ten years, we have irresponsible and almost unregulated financial institutions that allow people to get to that brink by going heavily in debt. Don't let the buggers divide and rule by squabbling about homeless dogs and homeless people. Always look at the bigger picture.