LETTER:Why we feel bad
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Michael Rubenstein
Sir: Much is rightly made of the continuing absence of a "feel-good factor" owing to lack of job security and to acute problems relating to house ownership. However, the sight of many beggars and of those sleeping in the city streets is itself depressing for those of us not notably affected or threatened by economic misfortune.
How can people "feel good" while dismayed by such evidence of an "us" and "them" society.
Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN
Benington,
Hertfordshire
17 March
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