Why don't people accept that you are the way you are through your choices and not because of the government?

Good for you, but in the process of becoming 'comfortable' did you lose your basic empathy and compassion for those who have not your drive and ability?

That's a very ignorant point of view. You were clearly blessed with a lot of luck in life, otherwise you would have more empathy for those who are struggling through no fault of their own. How do you expect someone who was had to go through awful experiences at school, couldn't afford to go to university, has no professional skills and is living on minimum wage in an expensive city like London to cope without government assistance, trade unions and a minimum wage increase?

Uncle Tom.

Maybe you just hit lucky by being good at something that is in demand, and therefore get paid well for it. What about people who are good at not in demand stuff, have bad luck, suffer illness, get let down by failed government policies?

I don't totally disagree with what you are saying, but it is oversimplification

What if you get struck by lightning?

Just out of interest Nosey; if children cannot afford to eat how is that down to personal responsibility? Should they get a chimney sweeping job?

That would, I suggest, be asking too much of the average Jo in the street. Most people just want a free ride.

What?

It must be the governments fault, they are cruel and heartless and do not understand what it is like to be forced to reject work for a life on benefits, cannot afford to work etc.

It is mean that the government does not support my right to reproduce recklessly, it is cruel that the government won't give me extra money for my kids.

How dare the government expect me to pay my rent from the housing benefit they pay into my account, I just had to buy a new phone or go out with my friends.

School dinners are the only meal my kids get, I struggle to feed them on the child benefit and all my other benefits. Cook, I can't be bothered.

Lucky me, I can now send them to school in holidays to be fed, I wonder if the school will let them live there until they are 18 so I don't need to bother caring for them at all.

The nanny state has not worked and it is only getting worse with the entitlement culture now several generations old.

Fatherless children and feckless mothers producing kids they don't raise themselves, they can't even be bothered to feed them, school can do that.

well jolly good luck to you

we are who we are because of our accident of birth our environment our health our ability to be educated or our desire to learn read think study and have energy and motivation and YES our choices etc etc

all of that has NOTHING to do with the government

unless of course your accident of birth had you pop out in some god forsaken third world war zone sh1t hole with a corrupt government who kept the people starving and ignorant... and worse yet if you happen to be born a female in one of those sh1t holes... get the idea