Ian Duncan Smith

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41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was an hungred, and ye refused me even the least help until you had treated me as a scrounger and a thief and gave a lengthy account of what your blind eyes saw as my failures and immoralities: I

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[ravenclaw_eric]

While I will freely stipulate that there are many deserving case, the existence of so many real scroungers and thieves makes scrutinizing those who want help a regrettable necessity. Jesus also said "Be ye wise as serpents, and wary as doves." My own impression of Him is that He did not want his followers to be so naive as to allow themselves to be victimized by what someone-or-other called "the cunning tears of Hell."

I have noticed that those who actually have to deal with the underclasses, year after year, often develop an awfully negative view of them. While, as I said, there are legitimate cases where help would be appropriate, all too often what it turns into is, de facto, enablement of asocial, if not actively anti-social, behavior patterns. I racked my life up beyond all repair playing an unhappy, unwilling enabler to two mentally-tweaked, selfish alcoholics, and got ripped out of tens of thousands of dollars by worthless tenants protected by well-meant laws favoring them over landlords, and my give-a-damn is well and truly busted.

How much money was thrown at "Baby P"'s mommy? How many times did social workers call? Did it do the little fellow one bit of good?

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Mr.Duncan Smith did not need any experience and did not develop anything. His idea that the poor, the disabled and the sick were there to be punished and persecuted is his own native, precious and beloved treasure. As for the rest, speaking as a member of the underclass and a former bum on the streets of London, why, thank you very much, sir. (The answer to the dumb question about Baby P. is: none at all. The service in question was notoriously undermanned and underfunded and the social worker who was scapegoated had, IIRC, 55 other cases to follow. Before you waste your time blaming victims, make sure you are paying enough money to allow yourself to do so. Even the Pharisees gave money in charity first and bragged about it afterwards.)