Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Welfare reforms due to be unveiled - including abolition of the incapacity benefit system - will "transform lives", says minister James Purnell.

Our government is so full of shit and these issues are due to the government's own policies: if you are on the dole (especially if you are vaguely qualified) they don't like you doing voluntary work (which just encourages people to spend all day drinking if they haven't got a job that day),it can be difficult to get free training and education? Forget it!

This will only force people into unsuitable jobs, and more than likely, into prison or enforced hospitalisation.

The division of labour in a post-industrial economy is such that most people can't have a proper, traditional 'job for life'.

This is gonna get pretty bad for people who have
been signing on for a while: they're gonna do you for fraud if you don't tell them you take drugs and you have to sign on everyday after two years. Obviously people need treatment, but as, this includes alcoholics and (presumably regular) cannabis users, what "treatment" that is available may be inappropriate for the user or doesn't deal sufficiently with any underlying problems. Again, it may be inappropriate to force people to deal with these problems, which will both increase their use of drugs and remove the addicts living support. The end result of this will be an increase in the prison population-concentration camps for a specific group (Muslims [15% at present] and junkies)-hell, if I was threatened with these punitive sanctions I doubt I'd have any moral compunction about threatening to murder someone just so I can get the guaraunteed support of prison/ some genuine help.


The medical assessment will only let you off if you have physical, not mental, health problems. They will expect you to do some work no matter how depressed you are or if you have learning difficulties (for these groups, supported employment or voluntary work is most appropriate). This will force people into working for basically the same, or less,money than they were getting before.

CUNTS!

Simple solution, but Capital/CBI won't like it (shoot them):
give students and voluntary workers 80 quid a week
while they are active.

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