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Originally Posted by GEaston
I know the forum well enough to know that most folk here get a form of empowerment from the mix of collective whining / pack dog mentality / criticism of anyone under 50. You can call that a "community" if you like but I see it more like a substitute for the Samaritans helpline and corresponding reduction in the burden on social services.
My question to the pack dogs is this - what have any of you done to improve Accrington town? I am genuinely interested to hear it. I'm thinking here about those of you who may have started a youth club, or a counselling service. Less at least was upfront enough to say he couldn't be bothered to do anything about the town - fair enough. What of the rest of you?
Yes Arndale is a dump, but it won't magically fix itself.
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The people on this forum - you know nothing about......absolutely ZERO.
You only think you know them.
We ARE a community. We help one another in times of need.
I am one of those people who would(and do) go out of my way to help people...but I am not about to trumpet my charitable/community/helpful deeds on here.
That isn't what you do......it is offensive, big headed and totally wrong.
Many of the evils of this town stem from situations beyond the control of us...the little people(in terms of influence that is).
Maundy is a charity...and I guess you would applaud what goes on there....but in reality it has brought harm to the town centre......being charitable doesn't bring in the rich people...in brings in more people with very little in the way of influence.
Local politics has done for us too...especially the politics of Power - Think TESCO.
The people in politics sell us out for what they think they can get, without one thought for what there thirty peices of silver will ultimately do to the town.
The general financial situation...of which you have been an integral part, has not helped either.
There is much less money about...and what money there is doesn't come to the impoverished North.
You make very sweeping statements about the members of this forum without knowing anything at all about any one of us.
It must very good to sit in your ivory tower and pontificate about what you think of us.
YOUR opnion doesn't define
me.(or for that matter any one of us on here)
If you live to be 100, you will not give to this community what I have given in my 30 years of a career.