The Question Why

Sir, - Why are people who do very important jobs - for example, in residential care centres or in schools for children with special…

Sir, - Why are people who do very important jobs - for example, in residential care centres or in schools for children with special needs - paid so little?

Why are so many old people denied any kind of respectful health care?

Why is it only the wealthy who get third-level education?

Why are some of the biggest social problems in areas of high unemployment and poverty?

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I have an answer: because the people with the money are desperately holding on to it in case anyone else should get some.

Paradoxically, money can make human beings greedier and more insecure. We have to change our attitudes for everyone's sake. - Yours, etc.,

Helen Jones, (Psychotherapist), Pakenham Road, Monkstown, Co Dublin.