55) Guardian Newspaper Discussion - Welfare Cuts

22nd April 2014

Guardian - Welfare cuts drive UK's poorest families deeper into poverty, says Oxfam

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/22/welfare-cuts-drive-uk-poorest-poverty-oxfam#comments

ObiDanKinobi:- In response to Jose Martinez

No one in their right mind chooses to live on benefits.
Close corporate tax loop-holes, raise the minimum wage to that of a living allowance.
Stand up for the people.
It would be good if we had a party which actually did that.


ObiDanKinobi:-

What is happening is a forcing of ideologies here. And its massively wrong. Basically there's the "get a job and don't think about the moral or long-term consequences" brigade. The "get a job, it doesn't matter who your working for, as long as your working" ideology. People with good hard working ethics are being capitalised upon here, this positive trait is being seized upon and exploited for the benefit of oneself, but usually to the detriment of ones society.

However this is a fundamentally flawed ideology, as a) there are not enough jobs for everyone to have meaningful employment and b) chances are if you do choose to work, that you are working for a large multinational that is avoiding tax and bleeding money from the local economy to overseas tax havens.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, many more times no doubt.

We need to take on and severely regulate large multi-national corporations, and instead encourage small businesses.

How do we go about this? For starters,

C181 private employment agencies convention 1997.

This piece of legislation allows the regulation of job recruitment agencies.

Set this to a maximum of 5% of the entire job market (not the currently rampantly abused labour market that is about 90% comprised of these entities).

This will have the effect of forcing corporate responsibility, in that agencies are no longer a cost-cutting/ corporate mobility option, and instead corporations are forced to employ people directly, this would be helped by increased rules and regulations with regard to zero hours contracts. Again perhaps 5% of labour market for any niche zero hours work.

Close tax-loopholes and increase penalties for those corporations who are not abiding by these new laws.

I believe that we need to enter an era of social responsibility and long term thinking, those who have tried to raise their heel against their fellow man in whatever crafty ways they thought they could, will be corrected, but i believe they will be corrected by their own children, for they will have a conscience and they will say, why do we have this, and yet our fellow man has nothing?

And they will rebel against their own parents, and realise that there is far more to life than the possessions of a man/woman. They will rebel, and will pick up the torch that has been carried by those who still care and who still love. Who value life more than anything else.

And they will lead the way.

Such is my faith in the next generation.

Edited for spelling 15/10/15