Discomfort Of Welfare

(This article has been published in the newspaper Ultima Hora, Palma de Mallorca, THE VOICE OF ALMER? A, Journal of Tarragona and a dozen other Spanish newspapers)

Before the triple murder of Birmingham, I had warned my daughter who works in London: "Those most affected by these riots are the poor Pakistanis who have invested their life work in the shops looted."

The riots these days are not, as a consequence of racial or social unrest, but the relief of marginal people who have neither employment nor seeking, preferring to live parasitically off social assistance without any consideration. They are, as David Cameron, the symptom of a serious collective disease.

Twenty years ago, when race riots in Los Angeles, I said black Democratic leader Jesse Jackson: "Do not get used to living outside the system, but to integrate and advance it."

The truth is that in Britain and other European countries the independence of the colonies produced half a century ago the first avalanche of immigrants eligible for citizenship. Since then, the phenomenon has not only increased, along the Western guilt for the outrages committed by the "wretched of the earth", saying the Algerian Frantz Fanon.

Financial assistance to individuals and groups and perpetuate their marginality nor serve them nor protect society from its episodic disturbances. Instead, harm them, to learn to live without stimuli and, above all damages to the real needy, pensioners, unemployed, disabled ...- who see their benefits decrease as you grow the greed of those who exploit the lack of solidarity system.