There’s something particularly cruel about continuing to push this tough on beneficiaries line at a time when:
- we’re already at or near record employment
- the reserve bank is hiking the ocr in a deliberate attempt to increase unemployment to bring down inflation
Employers could raise wages, train people or offer other things to attract workers. Instead we just make life on a benefit so hard people are forced to take whatever, and those in work know not to rock the boat too much. All this does is put downward pressure on wages at the benefit of employers.
The proponents of these things this think we live in a meritocracy: they’re successful on their own merit.
Therefore unsuccessful people do not merit assistance because they just made the wrong choices in life.
Like:
- Having poor parents
- Having a solo parent
- Being disabled
- Suffering a mental illness
Directing cruelty to these “wastrules” is the point: stop making wrong choices.
She said “benefit dependency” had grown “substantially” under the Labour government.
Yes, because record low unemployment is a sign of benefit dependency.
Please don’t let these clowns into government. They actively want to make life worse for everyone who isn’t wealthy.
Unfortunately people don’t vote in parties that align with their views, they vote out parties they are sick of.
