Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
I think most people would agree that there needs to but cuts San, but its the poorest in society carrying the burden, whilst the top 10 percent were handed a tax cut The bedroom tax is a farce, it's not going to save a penny, just push more into poverty. Most of the welfare bill goes towards working people on low wages, not the disabled or unemployed.
The aim of these welfare cuts are to turn the low paid against anyone on benefits by branding them as scroungers. The majority of the low paid are being seduced into believing that this will in turn free up more money for them. Wrong! Many sick and disabled people are being denied this new ESA on the most spurious of reasons. That puts them in the work force trying to get jobs - the same jobs as low paid people until they die and solve one problem for the ConDems. Benefits are perceived to be going up all the time but these low paid workers are too short-sighted to see that benefits rise very slowly but their wages are stagnant or are being cut. That's not the fault of people who receive benefits, that's the fault of employers who either can't pay decent wages or won't pay above minimum wage.
What do they think will happen when everyone sick or well are all vying for the same jobs? If they can't get a job, they will need benefits and will in turn become one of the benefit scroungers this government have led them to despise. Meanwhile those middle income earners will turn on the low paid workers and those higher bracketed earners will sit back and laugh while the rest of society pulls itself apart and our government will go off with their gold plated pensions to a European job, laughing all the way as they've screwed so much money out of everyone. Doubt they'll put their savings in a bank though - it'll be in an offshore account