Twin Towers WTC v Grenfell Tower

[TitoFan]

..... and it's entirely the government's fault. A bunch of lazy politicians, too lazy to actually write laws that work and make sense. Instead, putting a band-aid on everything just like they treat every other issue. People will take what's given to them. You give them something for free, they'll continue to hold out their hand.

Politicians and their half-baked ideas are the scourge of humanity, and have caused many of the societal problems we face today. It's most likely a universal problem, though, and not limited to the US.

Well it's politicians, it's human behavioral psychology, it's a lot of things and everyone suffers because of it. The impoverished are robbed of their dignity and their work ethic, they're punished if they attempt to improve their station in life (at least from the start they're punished by welfare benefits being taken away, it's not an insurmountable task but it's more difficult to do the whole pick yourself up by the boot straps deal because of that), tax payers flip the bill for this and there's much better things to spend money on (when we're talking about young, able bodied people who have resigned from attempting to work), you get higher crime, you get broken families, you get a perpetuation of the cycle of poverty, dreams get crushed, the will of someone to be somebody in this world is crushed.....and what do we as a society want to accomplish? We want people not to starve or be homeless, but as people we have more needs than just those things working doing a good job, helping out being a contributing member of society, that feels good, that makes a person feel proud.....but oh well the system hasn't worked for a while we'll just wait until it gets so bad that we HAVE to do something different. It's a shame.

This right here is the key element in why I insist the government is entirely to blame.

John Doe gets $1,000/month in welfare benefits. He wants to improve in life, so he gets a job which pays him $1,050/month. The government promptly rules that John is ineligible for any further help, so John is left with the same income, only now he has the related expenses in order to hold down his job. He then decides it's not worth it, and he's better off living off welfare.

It's a shitty system, baked up by lazy politicians who can't be bothered to tweak programs in such a way that they help people instead of hurting them.

[Beanz]

Seriously guys I don't want to unnecessarily offend you, but you are so missing the point. This is about a UK tragedy that happened precisely people were valued less than private companies making a huge profit. This is what happens when people are conditioned to think of people in different circumstances than them as being fundamentally different "a burden". The fact is that the biggest demographic in the UK that rely on some kind of welfare are THE WORKING POOR. This is exaggerated further in London, and then again in a borough like Kensington and Chelsea, where foreign billionaires, many of whom don't actually occupy the properties they have invested in, drive the prices up to such an unrealistic level that the people who clean their apartments, the plumbers who install their bathrooms, the bus drivers who ferry the tourists around etc can not afford to rent a property for £4000 a month and so live in social housing. They are working. The rent is partly subsidized by the Government to make it affordable.


Then consider against this that the Government has been pushing an austerity agenda that has seen huge cuts to public services so that people working as civil servants, probation officers, court admin, fire and hospital service personnel have had not only their wages cut year on year, but their ability to respond. So the government this week who found billions for the Queen and some former protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland allowed councils to cut fire safety regulations and use inflammable cladding. They cut fire fighters wages and the former Tory mayor of London laughed about cutting the amount of fire engine vehicles etc, and now it turns out the council had millions of pounds of tax payers money in the bank. On top of that virtually every single social housing high rise building they have tested around the country is turning out to have used dangerous cut price materials to save money, have no sprinklers and often blocked or unusable fire escapes.

It's enormous. It is the result of an ideology in which the Queen and the MPS get a pay rise and ordinary working people are told there is no money. No money for doctors or nurses or veterans or the disabled or teachers or schools or hospitals, but millions of pounds of tax payers money in private developers pockets and bank accounts who could not even be bothered to use materials for a few pounds extra that would resist fire.

It has nothing to do with Welfare and that is why being worried about the property rights of some rich bastard who does not want the working poor living NEXT DOOR is so offensive. In the grand scheme of things it matters little and they have no right to dictate such nonsense.

[El Kabong]

Seriously guys I don't want to unnecessarily offend you, but you are so missing the point. This is about a UK tragedy that happened precisely people were valued less than private companies making a huge profit. This is what happens when people are conditioned to think of people in different circumstances than them as being fundamentally different "a burden". The fact is that the biggest demographic in the UK that rely on some kind of welfare are THE WORKING POOR. This is exaggerated further in London, and then again in a borough like Kensington and Chelsea, where foreign billionaires, many of whom don't actually occupy the properties they have invested in, drive the prices up to such an unrealistic level that the people who clean their apartments, the plumbers who install their bathrooms, the bus drivers who ferry the tourists around etc can not afford to rent a property for £4000 a month and so live in social housing. They are working. The rent is partly subsidized by the Government to make it affordable.


Then consider against this that the Government has been pushing an austerity agenda that has seen huge cuts to public services so that people working as civil servants, probation officers, court admin, fire and hospital service personnel have had not only their wages cut year on year, but their ability to respond. So the government this week who found billions for the Queen and some former protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland allowed councils to cut fire safety regulations and use inflammable cladding. They cut fire fighters wages and the former Tory mayor of London laughed about cutting the amount of fire engine vehicles etc, and now it turns out the council had millions of pounds of tax payers money in the bank. On top of that virtually every single social housing high rise building they have tested around the country is turning out to have used dangerous cut price materials to save money, have no sprinklers and often blocked or unusable fire escapes.

It's enormous. It is the result of an ideology in which the Queen and the MPS get a pay rise and ordinary working people are told there is no money. No money for doctors or nurses or veterans or the disabled or teachers or schools or hospitals, but millions of pounds of tax payers money in private developers pockets and bank accounts who could not even be bothered to use materials for a few pounds extra that would resist fire.

It has nothing to do with Welfare and that is why being worried about the property rights of some rich bastard who does not want the working poor living NEXT DOOR is so offensive. In the grand scheme of things it matters little and they have no right to dictate such nonsense.

Well ACTUALLY the thread was started by smashup who compared 9/11 to Grenfell tower and pondered as to why one kept standing and the other collapsed, the other being the WTC.



But the thread was hijacked to talk only about the poor people in 1 event and not a comparison of the two events....IF we're being honest and not playing revisionist history about this, but I suppose I'll be lectured about this response as well.

[Beanz]

Seriously guys I don't want to unnecessarily offend you, but you are so missing the point. This is about a UK tragedy that happened precisely people were valued less than private companies making a huge profit. This is what happens when people are conditioned to think of people in different circumstances than them as being fundamentally different "a burden". The fact is that the biggest demographic in the UK that rely on some kind of welfare are THE WORKING POOR. This is exaggerated further in London, and then again in a borough like Kensington and Chelsea, where foreign billionaires, many of whom don't actually occupy the properties they have invested in, drive the prices up to such an unrealistic level that the people who clean their apartments, the plumbers who install their bathrooms, the bus drivers who ferry the tourists around etc can not afford to rent a property for £4000 a month and so live in social housing. They are working. The rent is partly subsidized by the Government to make it affordable.


Then consider against this that the Government has been pushing an austerity agenda that has seen huge cuts to public services so that people working as civil servants, probation officers, court admin, fire and hospital service personnel have had not only their wages cut year on year, but their ability to respond. So the government this week who found billions for the Queen and some former protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland allowed councils to cut fire safety regulations and use inflammable cladding. They cut fire fighters wages and the former Tory mayor of London laughed about cutting the amount of fire engine vehicles etc, and now it turns out the council had millions of pounds of tax payers money in the bank. On top of that virtually every single social housing high rise building they have tested around the country is turning out to have used dangerous cut price materials to save money, have no sprinklers and often blocked or unusable fire escapes.

It's enormous. It is the result of an ideology in which the Queen and the MPS get a pay rise and ordinary working people are told there is no money. No money for doctors or nurses or veterans or the disabled or teachers or schools or hospitals, but millions of pounds of tax payers money in private developers pockets and bank accounts who could not even be bothered to use materials for a few pounds extra that would resist fire.

It has nothing to do with Welfare and that is why being worried about the property rights of some rich bastard who does not want the working poor living NEXT DOOR is so offensive. In the grand scheme of things it matters little and they have no right to dictate such nonsense.

Well ACTUALLY the thread was started by smashup who compared 9/11 to Grenfell tower and pondered as to why one kept standing and the other collapsed, the other being the WTC.



But the thread was hijacked to talk only about the poor people in 1 event and not a comparison of the two events....IF we're being honest and not playing revisionist history about this, but I suppose I'll be lectured about this response as well.

Uh...Ok


Don't know what happened to the other Grenfell thread. Don't think there is a lot of mileage in comparing the WTC and Grenfell events though.

[brocktonblockbust]

What toss pot rubbish from a crumpet wanking sod.

[Beanz]

Actually I made an error in one of my previous posts. It turns out that it's not virtually every building tested that has failed the fire safety tests. It is actually EVERY building of the 65 checked so far

"Sixty high-rise buildings in 25 local authority areas have failed cladding fire tests, with every sample so far assessed falling short of the safety threshold.
Substandard cladding has been found on social housing across England, from Plymouth, Norwich and Manchester to Sunderland and Stockton-on-Tees.
Last week Theresa May promised an emergency assessment of up to 100 buildings a day, but the alarming results, and the 100 per cent failure rate of the high-priority samples so far, have prompted calls for the testing process to be accelerated....."


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e...test-2shpk0ddw

[brocktonblockbust]

What is your obsession with this? There are fires everyday in all urban and other areas? What has touched off your activism.so hotly with this? Ffs 79 people FUCK!!! 440.Chinese were.just.crushed by faulty construction in Fujian Province and NOT A FUCKING PEEP FROM YOUR ASS. #ChineseLivesMatter

[El Kabong]

I'M SO VERY VERY SORRY IF MY QUESTION OFFENDS YOU PLEASE DON'T BE ANGRY I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT IS OK TO DO THESE DAYS

So the "borough councils" they have money due to taxes or what?