Social Welfare an oxymoron for the state part I

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Thursday January 26, 2006 18:47 by Seán Ryan

A conspiracy tale?

A look into the stupidity of our system, and those who run it.

This article was previously published as three separate articles but has now been consolidated as one in line with editorial policy

Part I.

Off the top of my head social welfare means the well being of members of society. Of course the real description defies any notion of what these words mean. In a sense it does mean a social welfare but only if you belong to the upper echelons of society. It is a tool for their use. It is a process by which they humiliate and punish those of society that they see as not contributing or as having ceased to contribute to them, when criminalizing is not an immediate option.

Look at the man with two kids and a wife. He’s contributing his back off to the state whilst giving his thirty-seven and a half hours a week.

For what?

Does he own anything?

Surely one of our deepest urges is to provide for and protect ones family? This poor bastard will take something like forty years of this shit, and by the time he owns his own house, his children will have families of their own and be dealing with the same narrow options themselves. To work to live is the natural order, but to live to work is slavery.

Anyhow when the government hasn’t managed to encapsulate certain individuals in the manner of the gentleman with two kids and a wife, or at least before he becomes infirm, they must be marginalized and not waste the valuable resources that they have worked so hard to screw out of the gentleman and his family. Yet they even fuck this up.

First of all everybody is supposed to be entitled to medical care. How do we spend as little as possible doing fuck all whilst at the same time we can still say we provide care?

Waiting lists.

Brilliant.

Guess who goes straight to the bottom of the list?

Even better, guess who isn’t on the list? Isn‘t it funny that those who could afford to go elsewhere should need arise, don‘t even have to go on the lists? If ya have money you have more rights to life, this is the hypocritic oath.

Isn’t it true that the only useful purpose that waiting lists serve other than saving wads of hard earned cash, is the study of mortality rates over time with little or no treatment?

Come to think of it if everyone is entitled to medical care, why spend a fortune on red tape, bureaucracy and lots of chimps swinging through the branches of the medical card tree? It is hard to rationalise anyone, short of those having psychiatric disorders, seeking medical attention when not warranted, and I may further add that these people too, are also in need of medical attention. I mean most hospitals can figure out if you have a few bob in a few minutes clicking on the old computer terminal, should you or they know your R.S.I. number of the beast and let met tell you, that is the least of the information they have on you and mostly this is rightly so. Why the need for a medical card, if not to marginalise, stigmatise and ostracize?

This is kind of swimming in the deep end and is starting to look like a conspiracy theory, lets look at some of the obvious stuff. I stated earlier that the social welfare was there to humiliate and punish people. Lets go through some of the examples of this.