xenia Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Halve the payments to the unemployed. Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Halve the payments to the unemployed. Problem solved. Unemployment benefit is contractual and cannot be revoked without breach of contract,making your suggestion ridiculous,impracticable and counter-productive since the legal costs would further weigh down the economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Unemployment benefit is contractual and cannot be revoked without breach of contract,making your suggestion ridiculous,impracticable and counter-productive since the legal costs would further weigh down the economy. Yep, like Phil said the other day, Xenia has all the insight of a security guard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glamrocker Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Yep, like Phil said the other day, Xenia has all the insight of a security guard! Is Phil back ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Is Phil back ? He's never been away and is operating with more than one username at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 A refreshing view, from the Tory press. Time to start investing to get out of this mire http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9226293/George-Osborne-can-stop-the-rot-but-only-by-spending-as-he-slashes.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaFan Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 There’s plenty of stuff out there dangled in front of peoples nose, the trick is to ignore them if you can't afford them. Why blame the banks, you may as well blame every business that supplies stuff you can’t afford. Except that businesses that supply you with stuff generally have the actual stuff. Banks were lending money that they didn't actually have - when enough people couldn't repay* enough money to plug the hole left by lending non-existent money, it fell through. I think we have every right to blame them for doing that, particularly since we were then forced (by governments) to give the banks vast sums of our money to plug the holes they created. *'repay' isn't strictly correct. For people to repay it, real money would have had to have been paid to them in the first place. This was pretend money, and money isn't even real in the first place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaFan Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 But if it's a cycle then eventually a boom will follow the bust phase we're currently going through. This means that the government doesn't need to do anything different, just ride out this short term recession phase and we can look forward to good times ahead within a year or two. 4 years of negative or minimal growth doesn't seem much like a short term recession, and there are another 5 years at least of austerity coming. There will eventually be a boom, though, you're right. It will be fuelled by credit. Then we can do all this again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Xenia has all the insight of a security guard! You are a terrible snob. So much for your socialist credentials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 You are a terrible snob. So much for your socialist credentials. So you're saying the RW bullies are snobs, well, we knew that all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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