Osborne Once Famously Said: 'we Are All In This Together'. Do Many Of The Rich Suffer From Malnutrition?

[sandyRoe]

Or is it an affliction of the poor which will be made even worse if the proposed cuts in welfare take effect?
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/malnutrition-and-other-victorian-diseases-soaring-in-england-due-to-food-poverty-and-cuts/ar-BBmvrto?li=AAaeUIW

[RandyMarsh]

George's family business has paid £0.00 in corporation tax in the last 7 years despite income of £200m, maybe they aren't in it with us.

[Manjo]

Would it not be better to leave the poor with their tax credits and put a stop to their expenses let them live of their wages like everyone else

[viv41]

She just makes me laugh gordie, she's so patronising, a typical tory through and through !

[viv41]

Good point Randy.

[Svejk]

Geordie & viv. What a pair of cheeky fools.

[gordiescotland1]

well said viv I really should laugh it is better for you than getting stressed. :)

[naomi24]

Svejk, // Geordie & viv. What a pair of cheeky fools. //

Delete the 'cheeky'. Neither of them have a clue - or a sensible comment.

[Svejk]

^Idiot.

[New Judge]

"Osborne's always followed naomi's principles.

Mind you with a multi-millionaire father behind him, it's not been too difficult."

I've been similarly keen on the same principles. My father was a painter and decorator, my mother was a wages clerk. We lived in two rooms and a shared toilet until I was two and then in a council flat until I was fourteen.

[naomi24]

NJ, as I said, people who know no better make too many assumptions.

[Svejk]

You lived in a shared toilet, NJ? Boy, I thought I had it tough.

[Hypognosis]

@NewJudge

//But it is ridiculous to suggest that because no golf courses are closing and marinas are doing well that the country can continue its largesse. People who use golf courses and marinas already lose large chunks of their income to tax and they are already doing their bit. //

*Everyone* is doing their bit, taxwise, NJ.

Acknowledge this, if you dare:
Every bit of food, item of clothing, luxury accessory, travel to work cost, car, holiday is twice the percentage of a £25,000 a year person's salary than it is of a £50,000 per year person's salary.

Everything is therefore 'cheaper' for the rich person than the average person. They can afford the 50% tax and *still* indulge themselves in inessential leisure activities.

The phrase was "we're all in it together" and we still see the rich enjoying themselves like nothing has impacted them in the slightest. Until there are visible signs of them having as bad a time as the rest of us, then Osbourne's oft-quoted phrase will remain a hideous and patronising lie.

Some of us really want to know what makes rich people whine, when they have to do without it.

[Quizproquo]

I have read this category for a while and honestly, I can't contain myself much more. I earn enough to get by, just, with no luxuries and a struggle for things like clothing and I am getting increasingly frustrated with people who think it's just a simple matter of hard work and application. It's not and hasn't been for a long time now. Had I not hit an unavoidable blip in my life, I might have been like you, blinkered to how it really is, but having to start again opened my eyes to how difficult and badly paid employment is now. even for skilled people.
It's all very well to have earned your nice comfortable incomes from your pensions and stocks back in the day, but nowadays it's hard enough to buy food and keep yourself warm.
I'm sure a lot of you have traded up houses over the years. Ask yourself honestly, if you had the equivalent of your income in your 20s now, would you be able to afford to buy, or even rent? I bet many of you would say no.
I worry for the lack of compassion here sometimes.

[viv41]

Oh my naomi's indicated I'm a fool - how will I sleep tonight ??! (Easily) ...