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UK Minister compares cutting disability benefits to force the disabled into work, to a parent cutting child's pocket money to encourage them to get a Saturday job. (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stop sending billions in tax cuts and subsidies to companies. Tell them to just pull themselves up from the bootstraps. Spend the money on disability care.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 month ago

Oh, we can dream!

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'Sorry I should have used a different analogy to explain why im committing social murder'

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

wait hold on, he's... not criticizing the government with that analogy????

(i'm not from the uk, sorry)

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Nope, its what he said and hes backtracking on it.

The backtracking not being 'sorry for saying that, we will not do this anymore'

just 'sorry I said that, I should have said it in a nicer way but we're still going to cut disabled peoples benefits'

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 month ago

The Starver regime is living up to its name.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sounds like something Rothbard would say.

[–] slakemoth@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

There are some MPs who wouldn't piss on if they were on fire