tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post7630597575087299967..comments2024-03-28T09:16:33.241+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Back to the 30sSue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-34872218675399780272011-04-12T18:30:55.866+01:002011-04-12T18:30:55.866+01:00I agree with them about needing to reduce the defi...I agree with them about needing to reduce the deficit towards a financially more sustainable system, but what they're proposing is likely to cost more than it will save and has missed a massive opportunity to genuinely call on a "big society" in Britain. <br /><br />It would have taken every single section of the country whether working or on welfare to take the remedial actions that would have countered our massive personal and public indebtedness, followed shortly thereafter by the massive demographic stresses the economy is about to face due to the babyboom with a nice toxic topping of peak oil to finish. <br /><br />Instead the government has chosen to put wedge politics before wellbeing and dishonour the commitments made to its own citizens. We had a chance. The politicians blew it.DeusExMacintoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02728119585120029111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-81838927705359344242011-04-12T05:05:37.225+01:002011-04-12T05:05:37.225+01:00DeusExMacintosh
I think you raise a good point. I...DeusExMacintosh<br /><br />I think you raise a good point. If you take a step back from the situation, it should be obvious that the pace of the cuts - and the blunderbuss approach they are taking - are not good economics. It doesn't matter how big you think the state should be, whether you are worried about debt or so forth. From where we are now, this is not the right path.<br /><br />(I'm not sure if that was the point you were making)Cahalhttp://www.tmmblog.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-3384978775627728962011-04-11T16:11:58.688+01:002011-04-11T16:11:58.688+01:00As someone from the right politically, I'm fur...As someone from the right politically, I'm furious with the Tories for a completely different reason. They're supposed to be BETTER at economics than this!DeusExMacintoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02728119585120029111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-62749236482556694042011-04-10T23:43:38.020+01:002011-04-10T23:43:38.020+01:00I work in the business of getting people back to e...I work in the business of getting people back to employment (not with JC+, thank god). My first job was in Project Work, the last Tory government’s last ditch attempt to fiddle the figures and give people work experience. (If you take Long Term Unemployed [LTU] off the register for 13 weeks, they reregister at the end as new claimants, thus reducing the LTU count.)<br /><br />So, first no employers were able to take part because the unions said that if a job was there, it should be filled by someone earning a wage, not getting dole money. They threatened strike action if firms or councils...or anyone gave what would ahe been a paying job to a work experience person.<br /><br />So it was charities and churches that had to take the “trainees”. So, what did they do? The sexually harassed the people who were working wherever they went, the stole, they damaged (they were often doing decorating or gardening work, and it’s easy to sabotage that kind of thing... “ooooops, spilt the paint”; “oh dear, dug up that plant; thought it was a weed... what that you say, a rare plant worth £250, well I never....”<br /><br />What could you do? Well not a lot. As long as it was un-provable there was nothing much you could do.<br /><br />None of it will work. It’s another one of these things that they will end up having to U-turn on. And the first person who dies, as a result of being made to do something unsuitable (digging when you’ve not done it before and have high blood pressure and cholesterol) and the shit will really hit the fan.<br /><br />I don’t know why Cameron doesn’t just pack in now. He’s a useless clod who got the job because he went to Eton and Oxford and knows people at the palace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-22418550748158204782011-04-10T13:23:45.064+01:002011-04-10T13:23:45.064+01:00Throughout all of history in the UK their has been...Throughout all of history in the UK their has been a housing shortage and that in turn has left many not only poor but homeless if this had been addressed in the past a lot of what has happened with family life and poverty would never have happened <br /><br />This country has let it's people down year after year and even today the housing list gets bigger and bigger<br /><br />You would have thought and it's hard to believe that not one single mp or lord has come about and spoken up for the homeless or indeed the sick and disabled and put matters in order so that the wrongs that blights the UK are over <br /><br />Despite all of the knowledge gained over many many years by lords and mp's in the best universities we are still in 2011 no further forward in housing and poverty for the vulnerable <br /><br />This way of doing things by bad governments is endemic across the world and it's about time a new world order was established to put everything back in order so as to put the people first and everyone else in government second <br /><br />Of course this will never happen i hear you say and your right but there will come a time where a showdown will take place in the world it may even be in the UK and when that day comes and wherever it takes place a new beginning will be formed and the ill's of today will be a thing of the pastAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-60056211273970555762011-04-10T11:42:21.867+01:002011-04-10T11:42:21.867+01:00The one advantage over the 1930s is that we have m...The one advantage over the 1930s is that we have more ways to assault Zionists and capitalist wolves and their kind: more varieties of ways of groups and individuals, often with differing perspectives, to come together, disseminate ideas and take direct action where appropriate.His High Witness, the Prophet Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404624700686858866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-74580585833784703192011-04-10T10:30:23.839+01:002011-04-10T10:30:23.839+01:00Love the soundtrack. I'd like to see sources f...Love the soundtrack. I'd like to see sources for your quotes, but otherwise very well done on getting the message across...Annanoreply@blogger.com