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ian duncan smith giving up trying to cut benefits
daz378
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A bit tongue in cheek this... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9962079/Iain-Duncan-Smith-weve-given-up-trying-to-cut-benefits.html he basically arguing he has not cut welfare just the rate of increase of benefits . Is he giving up?
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A bit tongue in cheek this... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9962079/Iain-Duncan-Smith-weve-given-up-trying-to-cut-benefits.html he basically arguing he has not cut welfare just the rate of increase of benefits . Is he giving up?
Without a radiacl change in policy and philosophy I don't see how any government can really cut welfare. It is like squeezing a balloon, it just pops out somewhere else.
The only ways to reduce it (take the air out) are to get more people into real work, that pays at least a living wage allowing them to contribute to the state or reduce the actual benefits in a draconian way so that people suffer.
As the economy is unlikely to create the conditions for the former and heading up to an election I can't see the latter either.
With inflation on key essentials for survival outstripping RPI?CPI, for the foreseeable future, political choices about how to make real cuts, to welfare will become more difficult for any party.
They could of course admit we are more like Greece than Germany but I don't think they want to wear that egg on their face just yet."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
With £1 in £3 spent on welfare it will be very difficult to contain spending without reducing welfare.
It is looking like many tough choices will not be made before the next election. Indeed, public finances will be in a worse position.
What are the chances of Labour actually being able to deal decisively with the remaining deficit?0
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