The Government has announced plans to make huge cuts to the amount of benefits being claimed by the long term unemployed.
There was a certain amount of people in the Poll Tax riots who were long term unemployed, the type who haven't worked for years and have no intention in working. Are they going to kick off over this?
My personal feelings are this is about 10years too late, a large percentage of these people are getting paid for doing nothing when they are capable of work.
There will always be a small percentage who cannot work for various reasons, maybe full time carers for example.
I would and HAVE worked for minimun wage before, i think a lot of these people should be made to give up time working on the enviroment for example, clearing river banks, helping charities, just anything to justify the fact WE, the working of this country are paying for these people.
Don't get me wrong, i'm talking here about long term real hard core here, maybe 5 years or more.
2006-12-17
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