Re: Living in Abundance at Others' Expense
Date: July 31, 2010 04:44AM
The UK changes to disability living allowance are currently being considered, not yet implemented, so this guy's funding will not be changed for several months yet, if at all.
There is no way that any government of any political stripe in the UK will cut off benefits at a stroke leaving people to starve. We might grouch about our taxes and the benefits scroungers--of which there are many--but we love our welfare state.
British politicians are generally sufficiently aware enough of historical precedents to avoid inciting the kind of mass unrest that ushered in the French and Russian revolutions.
His email is basically a sales letter and I am cynical enough to draw comparisons with IM marketers who all have a sob story in their rags to riches tale. They were all living in trailers or basements before discovering the key to wealth and power--its a subtle way of suggesting that this dream can come true for the reader also and for our emailer it taps into the guilt some may feel at being cash rich while others are poor.
There is also an implied suggestion that donating to a worthy person (the emailer) is a noble and worthwhile use of any spare cash.
It seems to be standard practice for LGAT organisations to exhort their participants to get the money for the continuing programmes in any way they can, so he is probably getting a lot of pressure from above to raise the cash or to lose his shot at whatever is being dangled as bait: personal growth towards perfection? or at least the healing of whatever he believes ails him.
This chap may be a bit deluded and a victim himself but he has his act together enough to put out several of these emails. Marketers reckon that it takes seven consecutive teaser emails to hook in a prospect. Repetition works, and he is becoming a predator even if he didn't start out that way.
I'll save my sympathy for anyone who falls for this and sends the guy cash that they have worked hard for.