31-12-2021, 01:57 PM
"Unemployment
The govt wants the public to believe that the cause of our recession was not the gluttony of the financial sector or corporations refusing to pay their fair share of tax, but the fault of the lowly benefit seeker. This is why the govt has made it harder for the newly unemployed to collect welfare, Now they’ll have to wait 7 days before they can sign up to their job-seeker benefits.
It is a punitive measure that is intended to humble the unemployed.
For the unemployed these are dark, grim days, especially in the economically ravaged north. The cause is not, as some politicians have reported, that the British born job seekers are too demanding when it comes to employment. It has nothing to do with lack of initiative or sloth; it is that the job market has become so competitive that employers are not compelled to offer living wages with decent benefits.
We must develop a plan to provide affordable & decent housing for the 21st century, because what we have now is only benefiting the speculators. If the govt doesn’t get a grip on this crisis, the younger generation will naturally lose faith in our current political & economic process.
Foodbanks, loan sharke
When I hear of payday loan sharks, of food banks, of housing shortages, of medicine as something you pay for or go without & of a decent education as something only for a certain sort, it is not shock I feel but a sense of recognition.
Nothing ever changes."
Harry’s last stand; how the world my generation built is falling down & what we can do to save it, Harry Leslie Smith.
" A child in a tantrum who destroys something irreplaceable & suddenly realises he has gone too far. In the past he has been indulged or perhaps only overlooked. But what he has done now cannot be overlooked. What he has done cannot be explained away. What he has done has damned him utterly."
Sheri Tepper, Raising the stones.
The govt wants the public to believe that the cause of our recession was not the gluttony of the financial sector or corporations refusing to pay their fair share of tax, but the fault of the lowly benefit seeker. This is why the govt has made it harder for the newly unemployed to collect welfare, Now they’ll have to wait 7 days before they can sign up to their job-seeker benefits.
It is a punitive measure that is intended to humble the unemployed.
For the unemployed these are dark, grim days, especially in the economically ravaged north. The cause is not, as some politicians have reported, that the British born job seekers are too demanding when it comes to employment. It has nothing to do with lack of initiative or sloth; it is that the job market has become so competitive that employers are not compelled to offer living wages with decent benefits.
We must develop a plan to provide affordable & decent housing for the 21st century, because what we have now is only benefiting the speculators. If the govt doesn’t get a grip on this crisis, the younger generation will naturally lose faith in our current political & economic process.
Foodbanks, loan sharke
When I hear of payday loan sharks, of food banks, of housing shortages, of medicine as something you pay for or go without & of a decent education as something only for a certain sort, it is not shock I feel but a sense of recognition.
Nothing ever changes."
Harry’s last stand; how the world my generation built is falling down & what we can do to save it, Harry Leslie Smith.
" A child in a tantrum who destroys something irreplaceable & suddenly realises he has gone too far. In the past he has been indulged or perhaps only overlooked. But what he has done now cannot be overlooked. What he has done cannot be explained away. What he has done has damned him utterly."
Sheri Tepper, Raising the stones.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)