David Cameron and his glove puppet, George Osborne, have been making comments about the need for more spending cuts and the welfare budget seems certain to be attacked again, along with 'the rich'.
Neither Cameron nor Osborne ever identifies who is included in the nebulous realm of 'the rich' but it is much clearer whom they have in their sights regarding cuts in welfare spending. It is the scroungers who have never worked, young people who don't want to continue living with their parents but can't actually afford to move out without assistance, and those who are jobless but still produce hordes of children. I say "It's about time".
The benefits system, including the egregious 'tax credits' invented by that arch incompetent, Gordon Brown, positively encourages people to keep their working hours to a minimum or to avoid work altogether. My own investigations on behalf of friends has taught me, to my utter astonishment, that for anyone on a relatively low wage there is no point in working more than the minimum hours necessary to qualify for tax credits; working longer results in immediate reductions in housing and council tax benefits which take away almost all of the extra income, and the following year's tax credits are reduced in order to reduce the individual's total income to roughly what it was before all of the extra efforts were made. In consequence, my friends work only the hours needed to qualify for tax credits even though more hours are available; why work for the money if the state will give it to you for doing nothing ? The answer is simple - if the hours are available, you don't get the benefits.
For the rest, why should the country pay for many younger people to have a home of their own when there's no reason for them not to live with their parents as every past generation was obliged to do ? That it's inconvenient or restrictive is irrelevant; let them find a job, save some money rather than spending it on cigarettes, alcohol and generally having a good time, and then find a home of their own which they can pay for. Only then, once they are settled is it time for children; the whole notion of girls producing children whom they cannot support without massive state intervention should be anathma to any civilized society and yet it seems to be the norm in the United Kingdom of today.
That this lunacy exists is a shocking indictment of the system invented by the Labour government under Blair and Brown and it must be dismantled. Our society has become bloated and lazy, living on a vast range of state benefits that we cannot afford; it is time that things changed and Messrs Cameron and Osborne must change them if they are to have any chance of saving our nation from ultimate catastrophe.
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