It might be that the country is in debt and if we don't do something about it we're going to leave a bad legacy to our great grand children but where, pray tell, are we going to find the millions of jobs, real jobs, that people are going to need? OK so there are those on here will say there are jobs out there. Well of course there are. There are part time low pay menial jobs aplenty (not decrying those people who do them whatsoever i hasten to add).
People are being forced out of jobs that have liveable wages into having to have two or three low paid shorter hours jobs creating more unsettled disjointed home environments. what are the answers? I have a few that i'll list at the end.
What we need is a radical thinking think tank to come up with ideas that at the outset might seem maybe absurd but could hold fresh ideas and ways of approaching, what is agreed, the difficult times ahead for the significant majority of people in the country/world.
My proposals are
1) On death that there should be a 100% death duty after an estate has been added up. This includeds all property and estates after the sole survivor has perished.
Revenue gained goes to ensure top class health care for all including looking after the elder;y and infirm at the end of their lives. any excess money to be entered into the public purse.
2) There should be a gradual implementation in the reduction of hours in the working week to a maximum of thirty hours.
Initially this would result in a lowering of living standards across the board but with the bonus that people have more leisure time with a possible benefit of increasing community socialising.
3) Tax laws should be sorted out that there are no claiming back from the state whatsoever with no 'expense' accounts no claw backs no tax reduction incentives etc. Get rid of accountancy in its present form there should be one rule and that is companies pay a % of your revenue. Sorting out off shore accounts and tax exiling so that they don't exist (doing this has to be done on a global scale)
Irrespective of whether because people rely on cars then you should have tax breaks on fuel etc or the whether your business relies on phones and you can claim back because of that etc etc . Quite quickly things will find there true value whether paying less or more and social economics would change to accommodate this.
4) Renationalisation of the basic utilities, gas, water, electricity, Waste collection.
all have the right to the basic human needs and these not be exploited for unnecessary profiteering by the private sector.
5) The army, navy, air-force & marine services to be amalgamated into one combined service.
We have a glorious history of the individual services and of course that should be celebrated but in the end that's what it is..history and in modern times unnecessary.
It doesn't stop there. That's just your starter for ten
our financial problems have been caused by large organisations. and the culture of greed and inflation within them.
so more self employment and smaller organisations within local areas and easy to reach
I will just say, if you were running for election and this was part of your manifesto, you would not get my X
the idea of global things sorting out other global things seems a bit unlikely. its only the ineternet and media which presents that view, and only wiewable from a developed country. it means nothing much to some peoples.
the idea is like trying to cure overweight people by turning them into the morbidly obese. you will get more frequent catastrophic world crashes.
jobs and employment can only come from an expansion of credit.
My way to increase employment comes in 2 stages:
Look at the steps that can get in the way of creating jobs (everything from planning permission to Health and Safety assessments to equipment provision and training requirements as well as setting up robust, sustainable small businesses) and simplify or get rid of as many as possible.
Then
Make Job Centres do their job. You go in, voluntarily or on receipt of JSA, and after a short assessment and discussion with a job advisor you choose/are presented with 3 or so job options (this could be done online or over the phone), you have the interview at the Job Centre and then (hopefully) get one of them. This is repeated until you do get a job. As it is, it is too easy to not bother and many jobs (most?) don't go through the Job Centre anyway and are found by word of mouth. People can get employees anyhow they like - but jobs should have to be put through the Job Centre as well.
The JC can offer guidance on interview skills, CV writing, courses that may be of positive benefit to the person looking for work and such like.
That should get more people into jobs quicker and therefore spending less time on benefits. Or maybe not even have to go on benefits in the first place.
That saving could go into creating even more employment via the councils.
It's not like stuff doesn't need doing in the 'public' arena. Even in my village, which would have to describe itself as comfortable although not affluent, I can see weeds growing along the pavements, signs that are damaged or need repainting. Teachers that I know have to repaint their own classrooms cos the caretaker hasn't got the resource to do it in time for term start.
The Government is (has been) investing in young people's training in the form of Modern Apprenticeships - via large comapnies like mine (I work for, not own LOL) - but councils themselves provide many services that could have their own apprenticeships. Even if these services are contracted out, the councils could ensure that they use companies that provide apprenticeships or even develop their own Apprentice scheme that places the young people with contractors for the actual learning.
In summary - make it easy for companies to offer jobs, spend some effort getting the people and the jobs connected, increase the availability of good, solid apprenticeships.
Greed is good.
The private sector will always deliver when an environment exists to allow the Entrepreneur to realise their dreams. Unfortunately all the nonsense in the OP stifles the entrprenurial spirit but fortunately all is not lost. There is greed and hunger in the world and these people that have it will always create wealth and from wealth comes jobs.
I thought that the kind of Socialist clap trap spouted on this Site died out when the iron curtain fell but, no, there are still people alive and kicking in this country living in cloud cuckoo land. This recession is biting and surviving it is not about closing tax loopholes and having a thirty hour working week. The strong, the willing and the hungry will adapt and make the most whilst the weak and and whingers will cry foul and feign self pity at how it is everybody else's fault.
When the going gets tough the tough get going and the global economy is so much bigger than the UK and its pandered work force. Why should jobs come to you? Get on your bike and make things happen yourself - if you don't someone else will.
greedy people are the consumers and abusers of productivity. they are not the people who make, do or produce they simply feed off other peoples work. so they won't actually come up with new or inventive ways to create work. they don't care.
The problem you guys don't comprehend is that the world is very different outside of the United Kingdom. Whatever your "civilised" attitudes may be to wealth distribution and a caring, sharing community the fact is that if everyone in the UK behaved in this way we would, as a nation, be walked over - economically and militarily.
We have a good record in the UK of forcing what we think is right on the rest of the world but we are not always right. The strong will always survive and there are millions hungry, greedy and motivated people in the world outside the UK to guarantee that capitalism will continue to flourish.
Just as a matter of interest why is it "just not good enough" that someone who has worked hard all their lives and paid the equivilant taxes of hundreds of "workers" has the choice to do whatever they want with their estate.
The problem with your socialist ideals is that they are motivated by envy.
what happened with this lastest economic crash was that the greedy people could see how to falsify wealth by credit. there was never anything to support that valuation. there still isn't a production upon which profit can be made. they fooled and cheated gullible people and left destruction. this is the kind of thing they are good at.
so its fortunate for the greedy to be in a well established economny and probably the best place to keep them otherwise they would wreak further havoc on the world.
thw world now has to go through a period of deprivation in order to pay off the excesses of the greedy. who will continue to live oblivious to the damage they have done. so in a few years there will be a recovery and enough to go round again.
so the new jobs won't be created by the greedy but the ideas will be exploited and perverted in order to achieve the maximum aim of profit, again by the greedy.
maybe this time round there might be a more balanced outcome. but the only thing the greedy will continue to do is demand what they want. they won't know how to produce it.
but i lost the sodding lot !
