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Who are you talking about Janey - impertinent maiden? Dear oh dear you do go on.

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Someone pitched a fit. All gone, deleted, never to be seen again. (Well, I can read my copy any time I like, but everybody else must go without.)

Isn't it just dreadful, and what are things coming to, when one can't post a good finger-pointing, complaining, blaming thread without having a few people come along and disagree??

When not everyone is satisfied with copy&paste from the Daily Mail, and quotations of slogans spouted by Jeremy Kyle, and thinks some actual ideas and research and facts might contribute to one's understanding of a subject, and suggest solutions to problems?

But of course we know "the rest of the world" doesn't care about such things.

Snork.


Should anyone happen to be interested in the problem of social/economic mobility -- that is, the absence thereof -- and the kinds of problems it leads to, this article is still a good start:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8162616.stm



And to the impertinent maiden who asked for my choice of term for the individuals in question: I assure you it is *not* "welfare bums"!
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