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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Well, Gareth you may think I was contradicting myself, but the point I wanted to make was that jobs should be real jobs....making the dole an unnecessary benefit.
One of the problems that we have with some unemployed people is that they want jobs with good wages and good prospects, but have limited marketable skills....no-one appears to want what are seen as 'menial' jobs.
We have a migrant population who will do the menial tasks and will do them for a cheap rate, so then the indigent unemployed bleat on about migrant workers taking jobs....but they appear to be jobs that our own population do not want to do.
The benefits system has been allowed to run out of control for too long....no political party has had the guts or the gumption to radically overhaul it, for fear of losing votes.
All the political parties have been guilty of just tinkering with it, hoping someone else would come along and do the real work on it.......and we all know that that never happens.
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My apologies, I understand with the clarification. I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. The "dole jobs" should be a purely temporary situation which would encourage people to see out a "real" job, or the skills necessary to eventually acquire a "real" job. Unfortunately, in our economy, we don't have the luxury of full employment that we had in the early 50s, caused in great part by the deaths of 300,000 abled bodied males, and 65,000 civilians during world war II.
As long as the UK remains part of the EU, migrant workers will continue to come and do unskilled work. We have a population that needs to either get skills or compete with migrant workers. If they weren't getting benefits to let them permanently sit on their behinds they would have to choose one or the other. I would think most people would go for the former than the latter.
As to the desire of some to want an easy job that pays a ton of cash, I quote Peter Sellers when asked about his job. He said he was helping the women at the Moulin Rouge into their costumes for 25 francs a week. When a friend said that's not very much - he said that's all I can afford. Typically, jobs aren't fun all the time, if they were, they would be called a hobby and so many people would want to do it that you wouldn't get paid.