Problem families. Fix the cause.

Frustrating listening to politicians do their public act on question time last night. Keeping the popular vote and turning the issue of problem families into 'how dare you stereotype' offensive.

I disagree that the main cause is fatherless homes. Boys without moralistic local heroes is a serious problem. And who around them can offer that? There is no solution available to the need for success and recognition for all. They have little hope of a living wage.

For many there is no hope of providing for a family working hard doing something truly productive. i.e. making something of value that was not there before the work was started. All well and good selling it, but the initial part, the manufacturing that will utilise the people volume to provide a role within society for the masses can not provide a living wage in the uk with globalisation as it is.

So we have an impoverished working class.

We naturally seek our success in the path of least resistance. These problem families have simply changed what they measure success against. Not their job, nor the talents they did not nurture as a child, sacrificed cheaply to unlimited entertaining TV and addictive computer games. Many now take pride in things like no fear, being the gangster, do as you like, theft, intimidation.

No one can provide the masses at the bottom with any guidance or opportunity that means working quite hard just for 8 hours 5 days a week will make them a bigger success, because it won't. Even though it should. Why live? What is all this growth supposed to achieve?

And the route problem is simply trade globalisation and over population managed by short sighted cronie capitalism.

Yes fatherless homes is a problem, mainly for the sons. But an immoral father is no better.

A father carrying the shame of his inability to provide suitably for his family and without hope may be as much of problem as none. Thanks to the rules created by the lawyers and bankers who profit globally from the environment in which he has become neutered locally, he has become knows fear and hopelessness. In the words of Yoda  "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. These are the path to the dark side."

In the mean time I believe we should try to alleviate these symptoms with both the carrot and the stick. I was a wilful child and it would appear that many of left don't see the need for discipline as well as reward. We need both. At the moment, thanks to social workers shouting 'emotional hardship' and 'liberty' in the presence of healthy discipline there is often no real stick to work in conjunction with a carrot which comes in the form of a social worker offering the family unrealistic hope for success as long as you work harder than everyone else.

The fix has to be an economically viable routine for people who sorely need it.

In our capital market the fix must lie with import duties or subsadies that take into account foreign labour rates or restrictions  on labour and welfare to foreign nationals. The other route would be some form of national work to earn the necessities, a form of communism if you will, this would drive all private sector wages above a living wage.

Either, gradually, the lower majority must adopt the working wages and welfare of the Chinese etc to compete, or we must protect our citizens, from hardship. A bigger problem than war in the internet age of the west.