Riots

Now that the riots have calmed, and the papers and newscasters have left the subject behind, I have some questions about it all.

I have listened to the Prime Minister and various Politicians all talking about the fact that this was just gang culture, it is robbery, and that is it.  I did hear a couple of people asking what the causes are of what is going on.  But not a lot of comments were coming back on that score. Some have cited cuts and closures but I would like to ask some other questions and I think my questions just might touch on causes.

The last government spent a large amount of money on trying to cut down underage and very young age pregnancies.  They failed, the figures went up.

 Question one:  How many of our rioters come from very young mothers who really are possibly only children themselves?

We have terrible figures for marriage breakdowns, I note that the prime minister said, lots of the rioters have come from dysfunctional families, maybe, and if so…

 Question two: What make those families dysfunctional?

I noted that the Education Minister was saying that it isn’t education that is to blame.

Question Three:  If you are taught that you are just a machine, or a collection of genes that all arrived by accident, is there really any need to take responsibility for my actions?  Just asking.

Question Four:  Jim Wallis in his book  Why the American Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it - states that a budget is a moral document, is he right?