Ive just heard we are now on amber alert for a shortage of blood supplies. We have a shortage of anything here that is human based. Even supermarkets cant run their cafe's properly because of a lack of workers. There are vacancy signs everywhere. One could be forgiven for thinking a lot of people have " disappeared ".
According to national statistics this phenomenon has been caused by middle aged people taking permanent sick leave, and younger people are staying in education longer. Also the availability of a " tax credit " system that you can claim after a means test only requires you to work 25 hours a week. If you work anymore than that its deducted from your monthly payment, so people just do those hours.
Ive banged on for years about this country, but it really is about to collapse. We have a clown of a government that has spooked the stock market due to their botched up projections. Still they carry on in arrogance and like the media they talk and talk and talk.
Same here. The true unemployment number is 24%. Every one out of four working age people are unemployed. Someone working 10 hours a week doesn't really count as you can't live off of that. Anyone working around 20 hours here in the USA would have to share an apartment with someone else to pay the rent. Recently in Portland, there was a protest or something because of the rising rent rates. The governments are doing and allowing all of this to happen on their watch during a time when inflation is very high. It's being done purposefully and they want people to be homeless. Yes, I agree with you that they carry on very arrogantly and it's disgusting.
ReplyDeleteIts hard to imagine otherwise at the moment. I mean borrowing for tax cuts, releasing a surprise audited plan for doing so, thus causing a stock market panic seems just to dumb a mistake.
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