Is it tick tock for the benefit pot?
Connor William James Davidson
October 05, 2009
Right now it seems that the world economy is depressed and the physiologist is out on vacation. Times are tough, the job market is about as inflated as a balloon about to burst and the unemployment tax burden is soaring to the point that birds are writing to the Prime Minister to complain about it disrupting their flight paths.
But grumbling and groaning will only lead to a stoning – we need action. This, it appears, the British Conservative party have realised. The Conservative party and their leader, David Cameron, are proposing a scheme to "get Britain working". To cut a long story short, his new policy would entail:
Personalised help to get unemployed back into work
An upfront cost of £600 million or $955,794,504.18
Paying people in the private sector to get people back into work
Changing treasury rules
Combating long term unemployment
In some respects the plan is fantastic. It is true that the government needs to take taxes from workers and paying out to unemployed people at the current rate of increase is unsustainable. It is also very true that not working is against the capital principals on which capitalism is founded. So, in this respect the plan is fantastic.
However, how does the new policy intend to create jobs? The job market is already a place of fierce competition with an abnormally high number of people ferociously fighting for a scarcity of available jobs. So, unless the new policy can be supported by an influx in the availability of jobs it will struggle to attain results.
Furthermore, many people who have been on benefits for a long period of time (i.e. ten or more years) are unlikely to get a job simply because the Conservative party say they should – who, it should be noted, are not even in power. The big question with the policy shift is will they be able back the policy with significant force? If Mr someone or other turned round and said that he refused to do as they say and was absolutely adamant that he was not ever going to work; would the powers that be strip the man of every penny of benefits to the point where the man is in so desperate poverty that he will desperately seek a job? I somewhat doubt it. And anyway what would the papers say?
Yet, it is clear that something must be done if we as a nation are not going to spiral into oblivion with a stupendous unemployment rate. We collectively need to do something as five million unemployed people is a matter of great concern.
The government must step in and try to avert this problem or else the future looks very bleak. I ask you is this the answer? Or do you see any better ideas kicking about?
Connor Davidson
Sunday the 12th of October 2009
But grumbling and groaning will only lead to a stoning – we need action. This, it appears, the British Conservative party have realised. The Conservative party and their leader, David Cameron, are proposing a scheme to "get Britain working". To cut a long story short, his new policy would entail:
Personalised help to get unemployed back into work
An upfront cost of £600 million or $955,794,504.18
Paying people in the private sector to get people back into work
Changing treasury rules
Combating long term unemployment
In some respects the plan is fantastic. It is true that the government needs to take taxes from workers and paying out to unemployed people at the current rate of increase is unsustainable. It is also very true that not working is against the capital principals on which capitalism is founded. So, in this respect the plan is fantastic.
However, how does the new policy intend to create jobs? The job market is already a place of fierce competition with an abnormally high number of people ferociously fighting for a scarcity of available jobs. So, unless the new policy can be supported by an influx in the availability of jobs it will struggle to attain results.
Furthermore, many people who have been on benefits for a long period of time (i.e. ten or more years) are unlikely to get a job simply because the Conservative party say they should – who, it should be noted, are not even in power. The big question with the policy shift is will they be able back the policy with significant force? If Mr someone or other turned round and said that he refused to do as they say and was absolutely adamant that he was not ever going to work; would the powers that be strip the man of every penny of benefits to the point where the man is in so desperate poverty that he will desperately seek a job? I somewhat doubt it. And anyway what would the papers say?
Yet, it is clear that something must be done if we as a nation are not going to spiral into oblivion with a stupendous unemployment rate. We collectively need to do something as five million unemployed people is a matter of great concern.
The government must step in and try to avert this problem or else the future looks very bleak. I ask you is this the answer? Or do you see any better ideas kicking about?
Connor Davidson
Sunday the 12th of October 2009
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