What about the “worth ethic?

Sounds like the government owes me a living.

I’m sure you remember “Dolittle” in “My Fair Lady.” And the country people?

Never seen it

Sociologists tells me that the “hill-billy ethic,” which Al Capp depicted in his comic strip “L’ll Abner,” where the women do the work and the men hunt and fish or drink and fight,
is an import from the British Isles.

Which sociologists tell you this? What hillbilly ethic got to do with anything? And I don’t read Al Capp. I don’t recognise this ethic in Britain except what’s now called the underclass – those who choose not to work – husbands and wives who live off the State but there isn’t any hunting or fishing going on.

The “work ethic” is pretty much a VIctorian thing confined to the middle classes and/nonconformists, or the working poor who try to send their kids to grammar school.

Irrespective who coined the term and when – such an ethic has been in place for lot longer when there was no or little state welfare. Most people had to work to survive let alone get ahead.

Anyone in their right mind will not work excrpt whern it suits him, witness the aristocracy in any age

And that’s why we have unemployment even when there are jobs with that attitude. So if you have no food or shelter would it then suit you to work? The aristocracy – those rich enough who few and far between – gained their wealth mainly by inheritance or marriage. Are you suggesting we get rid of that? And even some of the aristocracy worked.

The first impulse of American blacks after the end of slavery was to grab their fishing poles and head for the nearest creek.

Meaning? I thought a lot of them after the civil war heading north looking for jobs.

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GaFfaUK:

What about the “worth ethic? ” I’m sure you remember “Dolittle” in “My Fair Lady.” And the country people? Sociologists tells me that the “hill-billy ethic,” which Al Capp depicted in his comic strip “L’ll Abner,” where the women do the work and the men hunt and fish or drink and fight,
is an import from the British Isles. The “work ethic” is pretty much a VIctorian thing confined to the middle classes and/nonconformists, or the working poor who try to send their kids to grammar school. And the German unemployment rate was always high,even before the Ossies brought their dole mentality to the country. Anyone in their right mind will not work excrpt whern it suits him, witness the aristocracy in any age. The first impulse of American blacks after the end of slavery was to grab their fishing poles and head for the nearest creek.

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@Robby

Get used to 10% unemployment. It has been the norm in Britain and Europe forever,

UK unemployment has been significantly under 10% for 15 years now. It’s back going up under the current recession.

http://tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/a2-macro-unemployment_clip_image015.gif

The current unemployment % is 7.2% which is lower than the current US unemployment %

http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/jobmarket/unemployment.htm

Of course it depends on how you calculate unemployment – and as much as I admire the old Iron Lady she didn’t do any favours by cooking the books back in the 80s by putting millions off the unemployment records and onto Incapacity benefit.

I look for a repeat of the awful situation in England, where native Englishmen remain on the dole while the country is flooded by immigrant workers willing to work for less than the dole pays.

Yep – why work when you can live on the dole? Whilst immigration should be controlled – plenty of immigrant take jobs that native Englishmen and women refuse to do. What happened to the work ethic? Instead let’s blame immigrants! Let’s hope Cameron avoids shooting himself in the foot with such ideas like Michael Howard did. Why don’t we stop the dole after 3 months and then see how many jobs will get filled?

Obama will encourage Mexicans to ride out the recession rather than return home.

Wasn’t it Bush who legalised a lot of illegal Mexicans living and working in the US?

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are you all on crack? don’t remember john edwards? bo’s priest? clintons campaign contirbutions? quit whining! you guys are pathetic!

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Liam, sacrifice a can of Spam and it will be released and a future post MAY be spared.

It’s amazing that people look the other way when dems do dispicable things simply because they have no standards.

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think my post is caught in spam

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No one likes a hypocrite, thats for sure. But they at least walk on a road that most liberal democrats would dream of traversing. I’m not too worried about a dem controlled house. They will tear each other apart in their own corruption. Lets not even get started on the hypocrisy of the left. Can anyone say Eliot Spitzer? Based much of his campaign on anti-prostitution policy, only to end up cheating on his wife who had cancer, and … seriously, do I need to go down the line?

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The sex scandals that have tarnished Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) don’t appear to have much in common. Yet there is one thread that binds them together: Both Ensign and Sanford were members of the famed Republican House class of 1994, as well as its latest casualties.

They both (Ensign and Sanford) are members of “The Family” and lived together at the C Street “Family’s” church, convent. The Family is a Christian political organization. I think the problem is they wore their pious Christian religion on their sleeve and preached one thing and did another. In fact Stafford’s public statements following his bizarre disappearance have been incomplete at best.

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The attacks on Republicans are diversions from the bad stuff that is coming. Get used to 10% unemployment. It has been the norm in Britain and Europe forever, and it will stay at that level since our Fearless Leader wants to make the USA into a European-style social democracy. I look for a repeat of the awful situation in England, where native Englishmen remain on the dole while the country is flooded by immigrant workers willing to work for less than the dole pays. Obama will encourage Mexicans to ride out the recession rather than return home. Then when (if?) the economy comes back, the borders will effectively be erased, and poor blacks and whites–and hispanics–will remain un /under employed. The Labour Government of 1945-50 saddled the United Kingdom with an oppressive nanny state, and the people re gained a measure of independence only under Thatcher. Do WE also have to wait forty years for deliverance?

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