Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "The reality of British children in poverty: no beds to sleep in or clean clothes to wear" video.

Well done! Like you, despite being from a very poor family, all 5 of us got off our backsides and now live very comfortably with no mortgages, two of us have two houses, and three of us either quite posh motor homes or in my case a serious sailing yacht.
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@thomasscharnott6236 People can do a lot to improve their luck in life, the problem is that too many people have become used to not having to help themselves. I blame the wrong sort of "help" being given in the past, much like many foreign countries that have had money poured into for years but are still poor.
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@clairemcmahon9392 I totally agree we should help the vulnerable, but you can only go so far in helping the poor. Some people would be poor if you gave them £1000 a week while others would be on their way to being millionaires in the first year.
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In the next town along from where I live there is a town with apparently high levels of poverty. A short walk from the supposed worst area, I have never seen so many black berries growing. There is also a good amount of other wild foods just for the taking. Why don't these people pick it? The other point that comes across is the big families- I am from a big family, brought up in a council house in what would now be considered poverty but never went hungry and always went on at least 2 holidays a year. When I was young, big families were the norm but nowadays there is no reason for them.
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@casualbrowser407 You should have added not feeling entitled to the list of things that made society better.
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@Sam-oo1uo Why do you think so many charities exist? They are money making businesses that con well meaning people.
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@craighobbs3708 Well said!
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What you say certainly seems to be the case often. The big problem is that the wrong type of "help" has been given for too long. It always seemed to be that people in power thought giving people more money the more children they had would help stop poverty, but in too many cases it had the complete opposite effect. Education (of the correct type) is about the only way to break this cycle. Teach people how to look after themselves and to give them a useful skill and things will start to get better. Sadly to many do-gooders don't think this way.
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@Zizzy616 I think you are mistaking having a reasonable standard of living and poverty. Like my siblings, I went to a very ordinary school in a village. I ended up with a pretty ordinary job (albeit in a fairly specialized industry) I followed my older brother into the company where my father worked. Neither of my younger sisters went to university either. As I have indicated elsewhere, we have all done pretty well for ourselves.
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@Zizzy616 It sounds like what you consider to be a good job is so far from most people as to be a fantasy.
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@oldishandwoke-ish1181 It is funny that some people have instantly blame "the Tories " when both parties have been in power around the same length of time for most of my life. As I indicate elsewhere, much of the problem is due to the wrong type of help being given, albeit with the best intentions. You will never be able to "buy" some people out of poverty and often you will end up making things worse for them.
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@oldishandwoke-ish1181 What amazes me is the amount you of free food out there for the taking that goes to waste. Round here, there are orchards where the fruit rots on the ground because no one seems interested in picking it.
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@heliotropezzz333 Very true but their whole way of thinking is very different from that in the UK. Sadly, their way of life is being ruined by people who do not share their mindset. Much like the French are finding out.
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@heliotropezzz333 To me, a good example of the different mindset is illustrated by a friend who worked in Denmark for a while. When he first went there he was surprised to find that the train fairs were collected almost on an honesty box principle. When he asked a colleague "What happens if someone didn't pay?" It was almost as if they could not understand why anyone would not.
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