You know, I'd have (slightly) more respect for you if your ire was raised by the fact that a western-hating Muslim cleric is allowed to spout his polemical diatribe and effectively goes free, at the taxpayer's expense, on the same day that four UK soldiers, one of them female, get whacked by the Taleban, due principally to the lack of adequate kit, because the same gobmint that's allowed that ****forbrains to stay here won't give the armed forces the money to protect themselves whilst doing the gobmint's bidding.
But no, for some reason, you keep on and on like a f*cking dog with a f*cking bone about what SEs charge. I couldn't give a flying f*ck if you think what my company charges me out at is not to your liking, so don't expect me to reduce it, to whatever levels you consider to be acceptable, any time soon.
No, those getting paid £100-200/day are not poor. Poor is living on the breadline, with barely enough to feed or clothe oneself - down at handouts level. I have a daughter like that. She's workshy, won't come off the "sosh", as it isn't to her financial benefit. She's not atypical: there are hundreds of thousands of them out there and I don't see why those kind of apparently poor people should be given more.
As for doing a job and not getting paid enough, go and do something else, find another one, if you want more money. Go to college, get some qualifications, there's plenty of opportunity to do them. Got a mortgage and kids, money's tight? Yeh, well so had I and so was mine when I did my quals, but I wanted it enough to get off my arse and work for it - and take six years of reduced pay to give me the time off to do my studying. So don't expect any sympathy from me, saying it's hard, there's too many distractions, calls on your time. It can be done, but it's you that has to do it, not wait for a handout from someone else.
I wanted more dosh, so I went and did something about it, rather than sitting there moaning that it was unfair that someone earned more than me, and pretending to dress up the percieved unfairness of it all from some supposedly philanthropic viewpoint, when the simple fact of the matter is, you can't bear the thought that I can and do, invoice for my time at £90/hr, notwithstanding that, if you take your car in for a service, you will find much the same rate, for some grease-monkey to play around with a laptop and adjust your engine management system.
