I don't agree with that articles viewpoint that what the Government is doing is never the right option in the economic climate were in. Spending your way out of a recession should have never been the answer ever.
It should be encouraging people to spend less on everything and save more. People who have children must use that saved money from the birth of a child to fund that child's entire needs including their higher education costs. Welfare should only be for the very disabled who cannot work at all.
I've never voted Tory in my entire life but I truly believe all these measures are necessary. I want to se a Britain permanently changed to where A hard working, pay your own way, no debts, less materialistic, simple lifestyle is the norm and no one gets more pay for any job then the Prime Minister gets which still shouldn't be really more then £100,000 a year!
I think we might have to agree to differ on this one. Besides, I'm no economist and I don't know what the best way out of this fanancial crisis might be, but putting people out of work deliberately and closing down the economy doesn't seem to be the way to go about things to me, so it's interesting to hear tyhat whenever this tactic of severe cuts has been used in the past it's always been without success.
My business is in the arts and I can see that a lot of us are going to be very badly hit as people (and institutions) lose confidence in their ability to spend.
One example: One of my agency clients is an excellent team of Zulu cultural performers. http://www.zulutradition.com Normally at this time of year - especially for October which is Black history Month - we'd be fighting off engagements for schools and colleges. This year my guys are really struggling.
OK, fair enough, the world doesn't owe them a living, but it's not just them, it's reflected in performers right across the board. This is a hidden side of unemployment. Performers (musicians, actors, dancers) rarely show up on the unemployment figures because a lot of their out-of-work time is cinsidered 'resting' between gigs. But when the rests are longer than the gigs, then they cease to be self-sufficient.
The old joke is far too close to the truth: Q. What do you call a folk singer without a girlfriend? A. Homeless.
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2010 06:22 pm (UTC)It should be encouraging people to spend less on everything and save more. People who have children must use that saved money from the birth of a child to fund that child's entire needs including their higher education costs. Welfare should only be for the very disabled who cannot work at all.
I've never voted Tory in my entire life but I truly believe all these measures are necessary. I want to se a Britain permanently changed to where A hard working, pay your own way, no debts, less materialistic, simple lifestyle is the norm and no one gets more pay for any job then the Prime Minister gets which still shouldn't be really more then £100,000 a year!
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Date: Oct. 25th, 2010 08:07 pm (UTC)My business is in the arts and I can see that a lot of us are going to be very badly hit as people (and institutions) lose confidence in their ability to spend.
One example: One of my agency clients is an excellent team of Zulu cultural performers. http://www.zulutradition.com Normally at this time of year - especially for October which is Black history Month - we'd be fighting off engagements for schools and colleges. This year my guys are really struggling.
OK, fair enough, the world doesn't owe them a living, but it's not just them, it's reflected in performers right across the board. This is a hidden side of unemployment. Performers (musicians, actors, dancers) rarely show up on the unemployment figures because a lot of their out-of-work time is cinsidered 'resting' between gigs. But when the rests are longer than the gigs, then they cease to be self-sufficient.
The old joke is far too close to the truth: Q. What do you call a folk singer without a girlfriend? A. Homeless.