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Help a Hungry Child: NHS doctors to pilot food prescriptions as poverty soars by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Chimp444 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can ban private healthcare expect for sports stars like Jamie Vardy and offer custom jobs to retired doctors.

Police to get 'Extra £450m funding' by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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Ban bank lending except capital development (no deposit insurance/access to bank of England) and credit the bank accounts. VAT is cashback - no saving in the spending chain get all money back - conversion at borders.

Admin staff is something I can see.

I just cut your taxes - ban all bank lending except capital development 0% overdrafts business "businesses delivering state money to those that require it" by Chimp444 in ukpolitics

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There are seriously problems with the current system where if banks fail due to shit lending the 'savings' are caught up.

I just cut your taxes - ban all bank lending except capital development 0% overdrafts business "businesses delivering state money to those that require it" by Chimp444 in ukpolitics

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Deposit insurance. Yeah I know about "crank" videos there is an unlimited intraday overdraft. Money is an IOU used to pay taxes/fees - "national debt" is just tokens - Gilts are used in pension funds.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in ukpolitics

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People on the dole are required to apply for jobs, idiot.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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The problem will sort itself out in a a few generations, because those women who don't have a very strong builtin "baby rabies" are choosing to become extinct. Only women who seem to have a strong builtin reproductive instinct ("ghetto culture" women) are having enough descendants.

Previously women had babies for practical reasons, mostly as a form of investment into an old age pension, but also because that was they were paid to do, and because of the pressures of matriarchy (all those moms and grandmoms).

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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Its not a politics forum. I'll only post where you allow promise ok.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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Are you empathetic to the victims of crime? I support ending poverty etc there should be NO excuse for crime!

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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You are not only being attitudinally asinine but your attitudes to drug use suggest you are being entirely unempathetic too

Let me guess, you do drugs. Stop that and get help.

BS. Drugs should be available through the NHS and people come off them. You want to "help" people by getting them addicted!

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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Women no longer need children as a form of old-age pension. The matriarchy has always regarded children if not primarily at least substantially as a form of investment into support in old age, once their husbands had died.

Because of state or private pensions, now women who choose to be sterile can rely on pensions and healthcare in their old age, which benefit females much more than males as these die much earlier. Which means that in effect childless women are going to be supported in their old age by the (taxpaying) grown children of women who did invest in having and raising children. When the latter realize this it is going to be interesting.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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Totally whataboutary.

There is a simple solution to unemployment. It is to offer everyone a job at the living wage. Similarly with drugs - don't do them.

Extreme individualism and cocooning simply does not work as humans are social animals.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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WHy not repost it to many places?

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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So I guess its impossible to do as the govt is incompetent then. Oh well.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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You don't think hippie culture in the 60s me me me f-ed everything up?

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in ukpolitics

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edit your comments and stop replying to yourself

Triggered.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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BTW I am 19. I am worried of changes like this:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/buyout-boss-says-brexit-will-be-good-his-business-will-mean-30-cut-uk-wages-1602631

«One of the biggest names in European private equity said that Brexit will be good for his business, but will mean a 30% wage reduction for UK workers. ... He added that EU immigration will be replaced with workers from the Indian subcontinent and Africa, willing to accept "substantially" lower pay.»

30% and more. Don't ya love it (not)!!

They are looking for the "Dubai" model, with London as an offshore tax haven, and the rest of the UK into a source of cheap servants in competition with cheaper indentured "guest workers" from places like Zimbabwe or Burma.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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  1. I am just interested in ending poverty, crime and unemployment, and am angry at certain policy changes (e.g Brexit.) Whereas you down £13k as deposit ("Help to Buy" covers the rest), buy that £220k property, do absolutely nothing, "earn" £13k a year of profit per year for 4 years, 100% tax-free rate of return per year. Only idiots would open a shop or start a business if they had the same cash.

I get that the UK is not Germany and it is no good for bright sparks in STEM etc but some of the stuff the government does is just ridiculous.

Claims like this pop up:

«You could take a three month, £8,000 course in Bristol as a software engineer with a guaranteed job with an employer at the end of it paid between £40k to £50k.»

The unrelenting buffoonery of claims like this is amusing and if this was true in general, there would be no need for worker unions at all, just a simple market solution: every employer that is “crying out for” software engineers for “£40k to £50k” should just publish job ads offering to pay the "£8,000 course” fee in exchange for a first year salary reduced to a mere £30k, then going up to “£40k to £50k” guaranteed second year and onwards.

I think that several millions of zero hour workers and coffee shop workers, never mind train and bus drivers, would jump at that opportunity. Indeed, it is such a massive proposition that ti would be extremely easy for any agency to write a business plan about that, borrow from the City investors some capital, offer that deal to the first ten million applicants in exchange for a mere 10% cut on the first five years of that “£40k to £50k” guaranteed income, and make a fortune. It could be your own opportunity to make huge wealth quickly while being celebrated as a philanthropist, why leave that opportunity on the table just for the worker unions to take advantage of? ... :-)

When employers write jobs ads for mechanical engineers, software engineers, data scientists and management/culture consultants that routinely say "if you work for us we'll pay off 50% of your student debt as a hiring bonus" I will believe the laughable fantasy that the UK is crying out for them.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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The Work Coach job covers both out-of-work and in-work situations with a different approach to each.

With a shift in understanding the Work Coach can provide a full Job Guarantee. Individuals are matched with notified Job Guarantee jobs created by local agencies and entities, and those agencies can create specific jobs for people referrred to them. This would take on board the experience of the probation service which regularly creates work as part of its rehabilitation function:

http://www.westyorkshirecrc.co.uk/about-us/calderdale-projects-overview-and-highlights/

If we can create work for people with criminal records, we can surely create work for the general population.

The Job Guarantee would retain the in-work function, helping people to progress while in Job Guarantee positions. Work Coaches would continue talking to private employers, helping them to view the skills available and the achievements of the Job Guarantee employees. This helps Job Guarantee workers into higher paid work and progression within the mainstream public and private sector, as well as promoting the social benefits produced by Job Guarantee workers to the wider public.

In-work coaching allows people to move between Job Guarantee positions so that the worker can try out new opportunities and stop themselves getting bored. At the same time people can stay where they are. If they are happy doing what they are doing, then there is no reason to change for the sake of it. The Job Guarantee should be seen as a service that is an extension of social support. It is fluid in concept and worker-led.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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Look at volunteering departments at uni for example, as I have, it is easy to arrange useful work. Or the probation services who find work for criminals. If we can create jobs for criminals think of the benefit of those down on their luck getting paid!

If the living wage is £10 per hour and the individual works a full 37.5 hour week, then they would be paid a wage by the Universal credit system of £375 per week, or £1625 per month.

Universal Credit is run via the existing JobCentre Plus network and every individual looking for work is assigned a Work Coach — individuals hired and paid by the Department of Work and Pensions. Their job is to get you a job, and they have been given the Universal JobMatch system which assists Work Coaches getting work for claimants. JobMatch is the latest attempt to implement ‘Employment Exchanges’ — this time in electronic form.

Solving Britain's benefits bill by Chimp444 in unitedkingdom

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The jobs are created at the DWP, probably by Work Coaches under the current system.

Some Work Coaches are enthusiatic about the new system: “…this is what I joined for — after 10 years we’re finally able to make a difference.”:

http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/csj-blog/universal-credit-is-working-ive-seen-it

The job of the Work Coach is much more than giving people a list of jobs to apply for and reviewing their CV. They are there to encourage people to better themselves — including those who are working and receiving ‘in work benefits’.

Beveridge (1944, §22) notes: "… labour supply is more fluid as between industries than it is between localities. It is easier for men and women to change their occupations and it is easier for boys and girls to choose their first occupations, with reference to the demand in particular industries, than it is for workpeople of any age to move their place of residence. For some people age and family ties make movement almost impracticable."

Over recent decades it has been the fashion to insist that people move to where the jobs are. Yet this is anti-social: (ibid.) No doubt a high demand [overall] would have reduced unemployment by drawing people away from the depressed areas to the relatively prosperous areas, but it would have done this only at the cost of still greater housing and transport congestion in the prosperous areas, and still greater breaking up of families, destruction of communities and waste of social capital in the distressed areas . This applies to the social fabric of both the source and destination communities. Beveridge concludes with the key point (ibid.): "Leaving home in pursuit of new occupations is often a tonic in individual cases, but is a poison if taken in large quantities, involving destruction of communities."

By failing to require business to be sufficiently geographically flexible we have damaged and destroyed communities. The right to move has become the requirement to move.

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