He has highlighted the dilemma we are in as a country. Completely out of alignment in terms of our income and our expenditure, we are like the family who need to go every week to the loan shark to get the money to buy the essentials. How we got here is history what we do from now on is critical !!
When the man in the street is severely overdrawn there is only one thing for him to do - go ask his boss for a rise ?? Just joking ?
The propensity for employers to pay as little as they can, especially in times of high unemployment ( the ball is well and truly in their hands), is made even easier as the state plugs the gap to subsidise, shockingly low wages.
No wonder we pay such a high benefit bill.
The traditional remedy used to be, to cut down on expenditure, and of course, that's the Governments case. Cutting expenditure on the Welfare State is in vogue.
We are continually being conditioned to believe,through the media, that many people in a section of society, who claim some sort of benefit, are in some way weak and debauched.
I am sure these self same outraged people would be equally outraged to have their,winter fuel allowance, the child benefit, the bus pass and so on, questioned in this way.
One man's benefit is another man's scrounging.
The middle-class and the wealthy have these benefits paid into their bank accounts probably without noticing, because these benefits are called, Universal Benefits and therefore the benefit is paid to everyone regardless of need !!!
This is plain stupid and should be stopped, why don't they do it ?
Could it be pressure from closer to home ?
Given the size of our borrowings, a ticking time bomb, has given this Government the opportunity for draconian cuts to the benefits for people who are already on the boarder line, (given that food is, 50% of their out going expenditure).
We are told that the Benefits mountain is our greatest problem.
Not the unpaid tax of our company proprietors, the Philip Greens of this world,Amazon and Starbucks who pay little or no tax at all !!!
The issue of paying tax,"income" (the other side of the Benefit account conundrum) is always down played by the establishment. In fact we, the public, are warned that if these people, and their companies, are made to pay the tax, they may leave us and then, - what a pickle we will be in !!!
Its the same with the huge bonus cheques the Bankers pay themselves, completely out of line with anything the man in the street can comprehend, especially in times of austerity - remember, we are, all in this together !!
No its easier to feed the public with this diet of "malingering benefit claimants", who must be hit hard.
The right wing media are part of the Establishments strategy to formulate and soften public opinion for even more stringent changes to come.
The issue of our police (now partly privatised), the issue of our schools (now partly privatised),{and I don't mean the oddly named Public Schools} the issue of selling off the fire engines in London for £2 to a private investor, the issue of the National Health Service, on route to have large segments of the service privatised.
Its a full scale assault, by the Conservatives on the root and branch of our society.
Who are the beneficiaries,
the faceless entrepreneurs, the money men, friends of friends.
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