The benefits system

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 14 Feb 2010, 17:50

J. R. Ewing wrote:well surely Teachers, Police, Council employees are only doing community work maybe they should only receieve minimal pay, whilst the real workers miners (what's left of them), oil rig workers, farmers, farm hands, etc. recieve proper wages as these are the real support to modern society.

err . . . Without teachers, nobody would know how to drill for oil, without police nobody would be able to sell it and without council workers the streets would be full of bits of crap made out of it.

So who is it who is really holding society together?

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 14 Feb 2010, 21:41

That will be Bankers, on whom all of society and government depend, to provide carefully considered loans, or entrust our savings to. They hold everything together, surely worth all their hard earned bonus billions.

Certainly not your lumpen proles, be they private or public sector.

Quintus · Post by **Quintus** » 14 Feb 2010, 22:15

Keela wrote:Is there an answer? Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an answer that is socially acceptable. So we all let the situation continue while it still "works".

I agree. Nothing will be done, until doing nothing is no longer an option.

If either Labour or the Tories proposed a radical change along the lines described above, the other side would scream and scaremonger hysterically - "taxes will go through the roof!", "millions will be left to starve on the streets!". Under our FPTP electoral system radical change is only possible after a major crisis, e.g. establishment of the welfare state after WW2 – and Thatcherism after the late 70s near bankrupcy.