Foreign benefit scroungers!

[petergriffin]

There are plenty of jobs for everyone.

Rubbish! The concept of "job" has died. I want to think that the genuine contractors on this board will agree.

Job creation in this country was fuelled in the 90s, early 2000's, by public spending.

[NickyBoy]

But benefits and pensions CAN be dropped. It's actually a virtuous cycle: you save money by not spending it on the poor, then the poor die and you save money on pensions.

Nope. The majority of welfare costs are spent on people who are on it temporarily.


You need a moderate sized pool of short/moderate term unemployed for a healthy economy. Its the bubbly froth at the sharp end of economic creative destruction and inflation control (no unemployed = no available employees to support new growth = rampant wage increases = rampant inflation). That money the real contractors have tucked away would need to be making double-digit returns each year to stop it being worthless.

Not to mention dead people don't go back to work and start paying taxes/ buying goods and services when they find another job.


Then, of course, you have to face the social/justice/order problem.

6 million unemployed with no income and hungry children, with nothing to loose.... I hope your home is well fortified.

[vetran]

these are quite interesting

Average duration of unemployment

you will note there is a hardcore of > 1 year.

Those need sorting.

I suppose the upshot of 'Benefit Street' is that at least two people got off long term unemployed.

[d000hg]

You associate with people on benefits? How very enlightened of you.

Only upper-middle class benefits claimants of course; recent graduates often end up on benefits and even professional white-collar types get laid off

[lilelvis2000]

Who cares? The vast majority of benefits is paid to pensioner who have seen their takings massively increased over the past couple of years. And the kicker is..most don't need it!

'Course the lot say they "paid their fair share". What a load. Eating the young is what is feeding them.