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Britain's poorest are likely to get another hit from the Treasury chief, who's trying to rein in spending. Millionaire George Osborne wants to freeze welfare payments for 2 years.
Originally posted by Jetman44
It might just force people to find work at the low paying per hour jobs. It's either, work to live, or die by not.
How much profit did UK businesses manage to make from the Olympics, considering it was big non-UK companies that were dictating who could sell what in the local vicinity. Would like to know how much money is going out to these decision makers and why they are not capping the humungus profits energy companies and the like are making. They cripple us with outrageous road tax costs, yet the roads have so many pot-holes it then costs extra to fix the damage to our cars when the MOT is up.
Originally posted by Tardacus
I guess this isn`t such a bad idea as long as ALL other government spending is also frozen for the next 2 years,but we know that they will never agree to do that
If balancing the budget is so important that they feel the need to take away from the poorest people then it should also be important enough to freeze ALL spending for the next 2 years.
It`s immoral to try to balance the budget by taking from the poor while everyone else continue to be unaffected.
In other words the politicians need to put their money where their mouth is and freeze ALL spending including their own salary raises.
and if you believe the stories about the Queen taking homeless children for a day and they never come back, then this is horrible.
Originally posted by jude11
Originally posted by Jetman44
It might just force people to find work at the low paying per hour jobs. It's either, work to live, or die by not.
Sure.
And guess who will be supplying those low paying jobs?
The millionaire who wants the welfare cut.
Peace
Originally posted by antar
reply to post by jude11
If this fear mongering or a real possibility? Have there been preparations such as the US Fema camps put in place in the UK? Are there other things happening to make you think it could be done?