The Unconditional (non-meanstested) Basic Income system.

It is the cheapest way to end absolute poverty *and* save all the expenses of running the *welfare bureaucracy machine*.

The welfare bill (money paid out) was over £164 billion in 2010 (according to the Daily Telegraph).

Add to that the cost of running and maintaining the machine itself.

A third cost is the resources (buildings, equipment, manpower, medium and top level managerial competencies) locked up so unproductively in the existence of the machine.

This gives an idea of the level of waste to be ended (figures need to be put to this) that would go a fair way towards financing this *genuine reform* of welfare.

Our school curriculum at the moment teaches not helpful life skills, which it should, but short term memory tricks to pass exams. I have recently passed my A levels at a high grade but i look back and think about how much I actually remember from GCSE level and the percentage is tiny (about 12%). Anything that i haven't needed to practice, I have almost completely forgotten. It is sad that 5 years of my life were wasted. Exams only test what you can keep in your short term memory and once that grade is achieved it can be forgotten. This needs to change. The focus at GCSE level needs to be on life skills such as human interaction, how to formulate an argument and how to express ideas constructively. there are schools out there that are doing a great job already and i applaud them, but this needs to be a government sanctioned change of focus for Secondary schools and our educational system.

mothers of children between the ages of 6 and 15 to be given priority for petrol, i spent ages waiting in line while men just filled up, two of them even jumped the queue overtaking me to get the petrol and by the time my turn came i only had enough to fill two of my three jerry cans before the pumps ran dry, thank god i had already filled my car earlier or i would have been in real trouble. why do these men need so much petrol? i think we need to make a new lane outside petrol stations for mothers and that lane gets priority. petrol stations should close to the public earlier and keep enough in reserve for mothers to go on tbhe school run, activities etc

Modern man is brought up to believe that secularism is a good thing for society as it generates peace and harmony among religious groups and so a politically correct stance to adopt. This however delays the emancipation of humanity and generates economic activities that are non-productive and a waste of resources, quite apart from enabling vested interests to exploit people through the churches, mosques and temples. Theism is such a waste of humanity's time and energy quite aside from causing conflicts across the world that prolonging secularism through state laws and constitution is no longer tolerable in the 21st century.

Different kinds of theism are so entrenched in the psyche of humans from childhood brainwashing and upbringing that societies need to take a stand by promoting the concept of atheistic states but one within which people are free to adopt whatever religion they choose at a personal level. State laws must be atheistic and atheism must be taught in the schools as part of the curriculum but none of the established religions. Citizenship lessons in school should focus on teaching children scientific facts along with critical thinking of the merits and demerits of theism in general. Thus the United Kingdom for example with its Anglican Church being part of the state would need to be dismantled and restructured.

Theists in general have no reason to critically examine their God-beliefs if they perceive their faith-based existence to be leading to pleasant or satisfactory lives. The negative aspects of theism are so great for mankind that society has a responsibility to challenge theists into examining their God-belief by mockery based on the presentation of scientific evidence.

These issues are a matter of morality in that the morals of religion choice affect human development and society.

Hence, secularism is short-term political correctness that delays the emancipation of humanity and needs to be done away with, the sooner the better.