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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
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Sometimes, just sometimes... you post something really relevant from a bona fide source. Just a pity you never expand and go for the 'kill shot'.
I particularly like the part where the myth of the feckless, workshy 2nd or 3rd generation dole dosser is blown out of the water and the evidence that 40% of benefit claimants are not Jeremy Kyle muppets but are pensioners who need help to keep warm, fed and safe, after a lifetime of paying into the system.
Also noticed that only 2% of households have never worked, half of these are under 25...(which of course would have nothing to do with colleges and universities offering mickey mouse courses in media studies, star trek and the history of the beatles, all with funded apprenticeships, bursaries and the promise of none existant jobs to go to on graduation...ok maybe I'm exaggerating a little here, but not by much)
When I was a whippersnapper, apprentices were people who were taken on to learn a trade..under this and the last two governments they were a way of massaging the unemployment figures and getting around the minimum wage....you can in effect employ a 64 year old on £2.65 an hour as long as you agree to train him and call him an apprentice, you don't have to guarantee him a job and, after twelve months, when his apprenticeship is over you can get shut and repeat. (This practice is scheduled to stop in August 2013..but they said that last year too, so I'll believe it when I see it)
I get young kids applying for jobs all the time, they knock on the door, ring up and post cv's..the other week when we had heavy snow, one young lad braved it and hand delivered his cv like he was the Avon Calling lady.....can't even give him a chance because of the constant cuts this damn government is imposing..so now he's one of the 'scroungers' that they are attacking, he'll probably end up being forced to attend a job club overseen by an automaton job centre worker and made to post applications for jobs as a brain surgeon in Lancaster or Leyland just to tick boxes for the government to show he's actively looking for work..and in a few years he'll think 'stuff it I give up' and become part of that % that have never worked.