Survival or development? The infant policymaker
Babies haven’t changed much for millennia.
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Our welfare reforms will help create a sustainable, fairer system
Sigmund Freud's great-grandson is now ex-banker Lord David Freud who, on the basis of three week's 'research', is now an 'authority' on welfare, having been tasked by New Labour and the coalition with the big crackdown on benefit 'scroungers' ...
From the word go, Lord Freud - like the rest of the coalition - fails to face up to the fact that for every vacancy, there are at least five unemployed, and in the case of graduates - for example - The Independent reported that some jobs were getting as many as 83 applicants.
Claims that the war on benefit 'scroungers' is based on a tender-hearted concern about poverty fail to stand up to examination.
It's the bipartisan mantra that "costs have spiralled out of control" that's at the heart of this matter.
In a situation where the very rich can avoid taxation, there is now a war between the 'squeezed middle' and those on benefits, fomented by the corporate capitalist media, who revel in every benefit 'cheat' story, but fail to mention the growth of the Trussell Trust's food banks. [CMMC]
The deeper reality is that the existance of a 'reserve army' is integral to globalised corporate capital's 'success' - ie profit.
Full employment, as it was known in the fities and sixties, is not coming back.
It's not coming back because it handed power to unions to get working people a share of proceeds, whereas now wage rates are flat, and there is a growing gap between 'haves' and 'have nots'.
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, most politicians have bought into the globalised corporate capital model of the economy, but are not courageous enough to spell out its essentially Darwinian nature.
To camouflage this reality, the third face of power is now integral to the political process. [TFoP]Gdn
Marginalised by Neoliberalism:
Children The Disabled The Elderly The Mentally Ill
'On the sick' - A History Social Darwinism Tax Dodgers The Myth of Full Employment
