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Funny that! Claptrap is the word! They've always said similar things about labourers standing around holes leaning on their shovels etc...

Yes, and they are not invisible. Yep. Plenty to get going at. Not if you dig a little. Much of it is not, which is where you start of...

Most of them live in full view. Their assets too are usually in full view (land, property, other goods) and can be taxed easily. Their...

You need to read about him. He is not "the sort of person the Uk desperately needs" he was in general a big rip off, not training...

The biggest factor increasing average longevity in the last hundred or so years has been improved survival at or after birth of children...

Through the usual channels. Income tax, inheritance tax, property taxes (rates etc) an endless list possible! Taxes on businesses...

But it tends to be a large number of the lowest paid who work hardest and even try to hold down two jobs so that they can pay the rent...

If you aren't heavy labouring, digging, or otherwise thrashing them, then good quality walking boots are comfortable, warm, hard...

Yes in that we have more elderly people, but they are in turn healthier than elderly people from earlier periods. Having people die...

It isn't the sole criteria, obviously - but it is a good indicator of health. If the heart stops you die. This is regarded as an...

So it's sack cloth and ashes then? Poverty = near death? You've missed the point entirely. In a civilised world, the point of welfare...

Living longer is a pretty good indicator of better health.

Yes the poor shouldn't expect to live a normal life - it's all their own fault! Sack-cloth and ashes anybody?

By the standards of the 60’s they probably were. However standards keep rising and the cost of meeting those standards keeps rising...

It certainly has led to a much healthier and more long-lived population. Average age of death in UK has almost doubled in 100 years...