Then you have outrageous and silly things like two million lazy deadbeats living off other people's money needlessly.[/URL] An honest and shrunken government would force deadbeats to work...to an extent.
If only it were as easy at that.
Many of these people
are cheating the system. Many will be working for cash in hand (the Black economy) and claiming benefits at the same time. That is the Governments fault for not having a proper system in place to stop this fraud.
Others have no skill or qualifications; maybe because they never had a qualifications or maybe because they were made redundant and can't get a job that pays as well, and all they will get going back to work is a low paid job that will not pay enough to support them, so they will have to claim benefits to top their wage up anyway. And they find that after a weeks work their take home pay less working expenses are not much more that the benefits they are receiving.
The minimum wage in the Uk was introduced by this Government and is to low. If you take a job with just above the minimum wage, for example, work in a supermarket, it would be as a second income because your partner is the main breadwinner. That’s how Asda, Tesco, Walmart etc. get away with paying so little.
If you are the main breadwinner or a single person in the Uk working for a low wage you need benefits to survive. If you are a foreign worker here you don't claim benefits but our minimum wage per hour is equal to five times the amount you would earn in your own country.
The Government will not put these people back to work just to save benefit money, it's all rhetoric. All this would achieve is taking them off benefits and adding them to the unemployed register where they would claim unemployment benefit and add to the unemployed figures.......which the government don't want.
The answer................pay a proper wage for a proper days work and when people see that they would be much better off working they will work.
