[nb: strong views expressed - you've been warned!]
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[email protected]>, Mother
<"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> writes
>I see too much removal of liberty in one sense or another an all too
>little reward (and in this sense, 'reward' need not be directly
>tangible in any commonly accepted sense).
Kids have no concept of how hard they'll be hit by the real
world of work. We face global competition with a vengeance now,
India, China and Latin America too, and our current social
structure is wholly unsustainable.
The trouble is, every school wants to be a performing arts
college (I exaggerate, but you get the drift), and nobody's
telling the children just how tough it will be and how hard
they'll have to compete for even ordinary jobs in future.
Now this next bit looks like a complete switch of topic, bit it
isn't - bear with me as it's horribly relevant:
I'm incensed by the mass immigration we're seeing, not because
of race or creed, but because it operates to take low-end work
and thus dignity from people already here, and will eventually
cause the collapse of society.
We have a Normal distribution of intelligence, as with every
other society on the planet, but immigrants can reasonably be
expected to be on average brighter than those who don't move.
Thus, irrespective of background, you'd generally expect them
to out-compete the existing population for low-end jobs in the
first instance because they're better and far more motivated
(Maslow), and then rapidly move up the social scale.
This is indeed what the figures show - and good for them! They
have the humility and determination to do jobs our children
don't want. Unfortunately, that's creating a massive and
permanent imbalance in society.
The net economic benefit is less than nil, because all
immigrants are aspirants too. They want to progress, have
pensions, et mortgages, send their children to Oxford, etc.,
and why not? The second and subsequent generations are just
like my children. Neither they nor their parents want them to
do the menial jobs their parents did. Again this is quite
reasonable and understandable, BUT, if you fall for the
rhetoric, it also means we need more immigrants for those
unwanted jobs. Thus the cycle continues, with an ever-
increasing population and demand on social provision of all
kinds.
As for immigration counterbalancing an ageing population - this
argument is so stupid it just makes me angry: immigrants age
just as anyone else does. Shouldn't they have a right to
pension and health-care provision like the rest of us, or is
the government actually proposing a discriminatory two-tier
society?
It turns out that immigrant workers are far more expensive for
a society like ours in the long run, because to the normal
lifetime public-sector cost you have to add the considerable
expenses of the support and integration phases. Without double-
digit economic growth (and, thanks to 'Imprudence' the UK
economy is teetering on a precipice right now), the present
situation - never mind the immigration expected over the next
decade or more - is quite unsustainable economically, never
mind socially. It will eventually end in societal break down
and anarchy.
The only fix - and it's a sticking plaster - is cramming as
much education into our children as possible. There is no such
thing as a sustainable knowledge-based economy (because of the
bottom half of the normal distribution - they have to do
something!), but we can stave off societal collapse for a while
by ensuring our children are the best educated they can
possibly be, such that we can out-compete other places for
creative work (but we still do need to stop mass immigration
immediately).
Thus the discipline problem is crucial. Rude and intractable
children, indulged by their parents and the education sector's
child 'psychologists', are destroying their own futures and
those of the children they share classes with. It's not the
street crime rate we should be worrying about, it's the mass
unemployment of the next generation, caused by them being
rendered unemployable by poor education and social systems, and
a global economy that cares not where a job is done as long as
it happens. "Their" jobs will end up elsewhere on the planet,
done by well educated Chinese and Indians ('good for them!'
says I).
Forget whatever nasty racist rubbish you may hear from the BNP-
the real issues are economics, together with discipline and
quality in education. Nobody with children, of whatever
background, living in this country now can afford to let the
present situation obtain for much longer.
If the British population, _all_ of us, don't wake up and smell
the coffee soon, our kids will be making it with acorns. I
exaggerate, obviously, but the crisis remains real.
Regards,
Simonm.
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