Bad form to reply to yourself I'm sure, so forgiveness begged etc., but
I couldn't resist posting a link to another article about the effects
of this equality kick:

The only poverty is in the head
JamieWhyte
Labour dishonestly claims to reduce numbers of 'the poor' when in fact
they don't exist
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1555203,00.html

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THERE IS NO POVERTY in Britain. Misery, futility, depravity, yes; but
no poverty.
The poorest in Britain are the unemployed. They receive free housing,
free medical care, free education for their children and small cash
sums to pay for food, clothing and transport. Most own televisions,
refrigerators, ovens, and stereos. Many even own cars. That isn't
poverty.

Why then does the Government have a target for reducing child poverty
in Britain by 25 per cent between 1997 and 2005? Why did it claim last
week that despite steady progress, 2.2 million British children
continue to live in poverty?

The answer is that they do not mean by "poverty" what most people
do. Labour does not think of poverty as being too poor to afford the
basic material requirements of a decent life. Instead, they have a
statistical definition: you live in poverty if your household's
income is less than 60 per cent of the national median.

This is a peculiar definition. It means, for example, that doubling
everyone's income would have no effect on the amount of poverty in
Britain.
......

Flexible labour markets have two obvious benefits. They minimise
unemployment and allocate labour resources efficiently across the
economy. They do this, in part, by allowing incomes to vary with the
supply of and demand for labour. A consequence is wide income
variation. Eliminate this income variation and you remove the "price
signals" required to make the labour market efficient.
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But its what a population conditioned to laud ancestoral 'human' values
more appropriate to small tribes in the african savannah still think
they want, until someone points out how many people will suffer if they
actually adhere to them.
A value system that helps combat envy would be a good place to start.
And that includes penis envy.



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