Wednesday 16 February 2011

Unemployment.

It's huge. A massive problem facing todays society. But do we as a nation have a distinct lack of jobs or is it just that some people cannot be bothered to go out and earn a living? Well I believe it to be a combination of both. No doubt the education system has failed a number of people and therefore they are left in a state where employment seems a difficult and unachievable prospect. In these instances we need to be helping people, providing jobs and attempting to get people into work through a social development scheme or something similar.

However we as a society also have people who simply see unemployment benefit as a way out of working. Those who sit around playing video games and in essence not even bothering to consider employment simply because the benefits of being unemployed are greater than that of a low paid job. It is important to remember that while not only receiving unemployment benefit these people are also gaining from other implications which kick in when one enrolls or undertakes a term of unemployment, including have there council tax paid etc.

I've been criticised and sent comments in the past whereby people accuse me of hating the poor, however this is not what the Tories are about. They tax the rich at almost the same rate as labour, leaving many middle class families with crippling taxes and to an extent earning a lot but getting back very little. I truly believe that many (not all I must say) of their policies are progressive and in order to fully see the extent to which they benefit the poor critics need to read deeper and actually see the way in which they operate. What I mean by this is not just believing the media and for once looking into a policy and actually noticing its progressive nature, ,maybe not entirely agreeing with it but accepting it as a reality.

Enough. Rant over. I guess only time will tell how the unemployment rate develops but I believe more than six months are necessary in order to see the full extent to which the Tories cuts will affect society...

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