Originally Posted by PrimarchofMars:
“Just want to say, I've said this for the last 10 years or so. The 'boom years' weren't a boom time for many:
This idea of 'economic growth' and 'boom' ignores outsourcing, automation and so on. People like Hartley-Brewer always bang on about 'efficiency' (usually in the private sector), well this is the outcome of efficiency: you need less people to do the work that was previously done by more people. Ergo, more people without work, especially as whole fields of employment have practically disappeared over the last couple of decades: rag trade, much heavy and light industrial work, mining &c.
She's saying go to where the work is. Here's a clue you stupid cow, even government's statistics show there's less jobs available at any one time than there are jobless. There's no work for people to go to in any way that will actually address this.
Also: work should always pay more? It will never be about raising bottom level wages, always cutting benefits. Cutting benefits at a time of council tax changes, bedroom tax, increase in utilities &c. Also, Tories are always running the idea of scrapping minimum wage up the flap-pole. So what is it? Scrapping welfare altogether.
Vile.”
I couldn't agree more. Couple this with the rhetoric of blame and you go beyond even 'vile' and into 'evil', I feel.
The only way to survive these kind of cuts, in a country where having money is the only possible way to live, is to return to Dickensian-style slums, over-crowding and possbily a life of crime. So I predict we will see a big rise in this kind of thing in the not-too-distant future, as parts of the UK start to look more like the 3rd-World.
The evil, criminal aspect of all this is that it is unnecessary. There's no need for this massive disparity in what people have. Yet it suits the criminal, tax-avoiding, white-collared a-holes to keep us under the thumb. I wonder how far people will allow themselves to be pushed...?