BOOMED - The Great Recession is Over!

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

In a kind of sad way it is a BOOMED. What happens when we come out of recessions is that the rich get richer, the middle get a bit better off and the poor stay where they are or get worse off.

[d000hg]

In a kind of sad way it is a BOOMED. What happens when we come out of recessions is that the rich get richer, the middle get a bit better off and the poor stay where they are or get worse off.

At least the rich and middle have more money to donate to Foodbanks though.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

At least the rich and middle have more money to donate to Foodbanks though.

And those who are not really poor can continue to get free handouts.

[d000hg]

And those who are not really poor can continue to get free handouts.

The ones you've made up? Or scummy journalists?

[vetran]

And those who are not really poor can continue to get free handouts.

Its slowly changing, the Benefits cap has bitten they need to let fiscal drag to reduce it, spare room subsidy is biting, we need to restrict council accommodation for the well off, deal forcefully with the ASBO winners and enforce workfare.

At the same time we need to sort the very rich & corporations paying a proper amount of tax.

[CheeseSlice]

What "Great Recession"? In the grand scheme of things the UK has had merely a bit of a rough patch.

Strangely the food bank usage graph I posted doesn't show any blip or wobble during the financial crisis. Its like it was going to keep rising exponentially anyway. Weird.

edit: so perhaps the "if you build it, they will come" comment isn't far wrong

[d000hg]

Or the financial crisis was overblown for column inches, in the same way that anyone wanting to keep costs down could use terms like credit crunch when employees asked for a raise.

[VectraMan]

Strangely the food bank usage graph I posted doesn't show any blip or wobble during the financial crisis. Its like it was going to keep rising exponentially anyway. Weird.

They have had a lot of publicity. I for one had no idea there was such a thing as a food back a year or so ago, but recently they've been all over the news. It's a wonder the usage has only doubled.

[Project Monkey]

The Trussell Trust | Foodbank Projects

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Trussell Trust Foodbank Statistics

Or they could just get a job... you can make £150 a day just for answering the phone and saying "have you tried turning it off 'n' on again", don't you know.

[Project Monkey]

Its slowly changing, the Benefits cap has bitten they need to let fiscal drag to reduce it, spare room subsidy is biting, we need to restrict council accommodation for the well off, deal forcefully with the ASBO winners and enforce workfare.

At the same time we need to sort the very rich & corporations paying a proper amount of tax.

Define that please. Legal, moral or just what you think it should be?