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Originally Posted by Chris
Smash unions = A good thing. This country is run by a democratically elected Government, not a gang of Trotskyite coal miners.
Selling everything off = A good thing. The democratically elected government of this country should concentrate on creating a safe environment where people can live their own lives according to their own choices, not trying to sell us gas, electricity and telephones.
Actually it's a classic example of a quote gleefully wrenched out of context and repeated so often that few people bother to question what she actually said and what she actually meant.
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You are trying to tar every union with the same brush and my dad was a union shop steward and he was never confrontational with anybody and always tryed to come to a amicable solution if he could.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I know what the words she said were - what she meant was, society is not a faceless mass that simply takes on problems and deal with them without there being any consequences for anyone else. It is comprised of real, individual people - i.e. when someone absolves themselves of their problems, they make them someone else's problem.
That's a problem that in many ways still exists today. We have a well-known member of this very forum who posts repeatedly to say that his main criterion for voting is to choose a government that will "look after me and my family". That's a nonsense; we are not clients of a faceless State any more than we are the dependants of a faceless Society. The State is paid for by real people; society is made of real people. Everything we feel entitled to receive, ultimately is provided by other people.
End of off-topic rant.
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We get told off for going off topic.
