Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's more than just one quarter | |
Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
Date/Time: | 26/04/12 20:10:00 |
"Once people have tasted the good life - cheap foreign holidays, trainers on demand, eating out regularly, acess to expensive mobile phones..." You can include 'a job' in there for a lot of people. It's not about 'the good life', it's about why a few people at the top are still living the good life while the rest of us apparently have to put up with the worst squeeze on living standards since the 1970s. I can see what a FTSE100 boss gets out of it, but what's in it for me, then? "But some benefit claimants object to the idea of having to move away from friends and family. If they were offered a job 50 or more miles away would they still refuse to move?" This is a misdirection, I'm afraid - there's a pretty well documented phenomenon at present of massive overapplication for jobs that do turn up - my company is hiring 20 or so graduates and got 1000 applications, for instance, which is great for us as we're hoping to get some really good people in. The problem isn't so much jobs going spare while people sit on their arses but people who want to work (or want to increase their hours, an often overlooked category that's become extremely urgent now the government has effectively punished people by removing working tax credits for part time workers under 16 hours a week) not being able to. Also if you've got no money and no pay coming in for a month and your benefits stopped the day you get a job offer you try finding somewhere to live 50 miles away (or find a way of paying to travel 100 miles per day, alternatively). Again, that |