UK spending cuts announced. How will this affect the Somalis?

[Ismalura]

Looks like all that people here can say ceydha ha la jaro" iyo shaqa ha raadsadaan dadkan. It is ironical that people from on of most disadvantaged communities can afford to speak like this. Anyways at the risk of sounding like a social justice lecturer here is a number of points to think about so as to see the bigger picture.

1) Uk is a welfare state which means that it has some extent of responsibility for its citizens especially the vulnerable ones. Look at countries like Sweden where the governemnt makes efforts to ensure all citizens get basic human needs like food and housing as a right of citizenship. On the other hand wadamahan waxeey lacagtooda dhan ku dhamaatay attacking other countries and other efforts to dominate the world.

 

2) The rich people in countries Like Uk, Canada and the US get more in programs like tax deductions than the poor people get. the Little social assistance eey dadkan masaakiinta helayaan is, and I quote, 'the tip of the iceberg'.

3) Shaqeysta oo walfare iska daaya weey fududahay in la dhaho lakiin there hasn't been full employment there since world war II so It is unreasonable to expect everyone to get a job. Meeshan waa competition and it is guaranteed that someone will be left behind even if everyone works hard. If the government has any concern for social justice there has to be redistribution programs that solve the consequences of capitalism.

[Taleexi]

Ismalura Smith’s publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, even though not a definitive illustration about the considered issue. Nevertheless, there is some truth therein; self reliance, and being competent are the most proven ways of someone pulling his bootstraps up out of poverty. In the case of ever widening gap between the rich and poor, it is highly unlikely that this exponential growth will slow down anytime soon. Because of globalization, as Freedman explains in his book “World is Flat”, globally, the FEW of each country are getting richer by the day and, unless progressive social programs are carried out concurrent and universally, no progress will be made on this front. However, individually one should commit to education and hard work in order one realizes his/her full potential.

[Ismalura]

Taleexi, how do you pull your self out of poverty when you are buried waits down in it? when your parents and their parents were borns and died poor? When you can't find a job because of who you are? When you can't afford tuition or child care? When Millionaires are thinking of more and more ways to take advantage of you?

Of course there is individual responsibility and one can work hard to go far but not everyone has what it takes (the intelligence, hard work or even simply the luck). Besides for every self made successful people there are millions of equally hard working people who are left behind to suffer under oppressive structures.

 

The theory that, free from state interference, the market will self regulate was the most popular one in Britain before the great depression in the 1930's, sadly we know how that turned out. Yes, the market does a lot great things but if it is left to its own means it is extremely, fragile and inequitable....check the poverty and homelessness rates In the US ( THE super power).

 

The Uk can afford to not only take care of these people but to also help them become self-reliant.

 

On a less serious note, Somalida 'ceydh aa' unbeey dhahaan ee yaa qaato horta bahasha?

[Taleexi]

"On a less serious note, Somalida 'ceydh aa' unbeey dhahaan ee yaa qaato horta bahasha? well put.

 

I concur horta yaa bahasha qaata, waa yaabe?

[Ismalura]

Taleexi, do you? Don't lie I can check some files ee

[Taleexi]

Ismaluray: I neither deny nor admit anything