tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post4495272360792942169..comments2024-01-08T10:10:48.074+00:00Comments on That The Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill: The Bigger IssueThe Boneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-44912317097614530672010-01-26T13:10:32.820+00:002010-01-26T13:10:32.820+00:00The Big Issue vendors in my area seem to be mostly...The Big Issue vendors in my area seem to be mostly Roma. There is one local guy who has been selling it for around ten years now. I find it hard to believe that he hasn't found a place to stay after all this time as there is plenty of vacant council housing.Crux Fidelishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949811845963570447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-58711659217182562702010-01-26T10:36:05.988+00:002010-01-26T10:36:05.988+00:00My main problem with it is ownership.My main problem with it is ownership.The Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-32236007280131813882010-01-26T10:09:58.043+00:002010-01-26T10:09:58.043+00:00I have never bought a copy of The Big Issue and ne...I have never bought a copy of The Big Issue and never will.<br />Some of the causes it supports are decidedly anti Christian and the concept of giving the poor a magazine to sell is, frankly, patronising.<br />Most Big Issue sellers have all the trappings of a moderately wealthy lifestyle (fat dog, mobile phone, cups of Starbucks coffee etc).<br />I do not begrudge them that but they should not be "begging" if they have these things.<br />I also dislike being accosted every few yards along the road.<br />Gosh....that hit a raw nerve this morning!Sorry Laurence.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-20778159965591337682010-01-25T20:25:46.882+00:002010-01-25T20:25:46.882+00:00Boring politically correct neo-Marxist twaddle wit...Boring politically correct neo-Marxist twaddle with a poor analysis of what is actually going in. I would never buy it.<br /><br />There is plenty of room for something better. Incidentally, how much one earns depends on where one chooses one's pitch. This is a perfect illustration of Ricardo's Law of Rent, so the average BI seller should know more about economics than most university professors who have never seen this work out in practice. Because if they had, they would give advice to the government that would have kept us out of the present mess.Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-2533357888773912852010-01-25T19:46:52.599+00:002010-01-25T19:46:52.599+00:00I haven't heard of this magazine before- not s...I haven't heard of this magazine before- not sure if it available in the US. But from what you are saying it doesn't sound like I am missing anything. It wouldn't surprise me either if they were linked with abortion somehow- more organizations and companies are these days. It's ashame the poor need to rely on this as a means of income. I like CWA's idea of helping them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15124468084334204166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-9355520144462255652010-01-25T18:09:10.015+00:002010-01-25T18:09:10.015+00:00It wouldn't surprise me, CWA. The magazine is ...It wouldn't surprise me, CWA. The magazine is stridenly left-wing, perhaps even Marxist, yet suffers the usual trappings of champagne Marxists - anti-life, anti-system and eventually anti-the poor.The Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389530333077823143.post-23968385245970225072010-01-25T17:43:24.893+00:002010-01-25T17:43:24.893+00:00I don't know whether it is true but I have bee...I don't know whether it is true but I have been led to believe that there is a connection between the Big Issue and Abortion. I don't know whether the Big Issue supports abortion but that is what I heard. I often give them money but decline to take a copy or I just buy them something to drink.Fr Joseph OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05509188380610230333noreply@blogger.com