Question on unemployment?

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Regarding the economic downturn, unemployment.



I can’t work this out?



On the news today here

The government has to borrow let’s say £80 billion to pay the unemployed?

Ok my question? Where has the money gone that has been paid by the workers [insurance etc deductions]?

I have my doubts that it were/will be used for the correct reasons or am I wrong in assuming so?
 
Hmm... I expect a fair chunk is going into the Olympics sink hole :rolleyes: Okay, sorry sports fans, no offence meant, but in the current climate, I just wonder if it's such a good idea.

(Ducks beneath desk to avoid injury from sharp bits of flak :lol: )
 
Maybe my eyesight's failing but I couldn't see in that news story where it said the Goverment is having to borrow £80 billion to pay dole money. Got a link?

If that has been said it's either poor journalism or if the Goverment has confirmed it is so, then it's politics.

Is it meant to make employed people hostile towards unemployed people? If the Goverment has claimed this £80 bilion figure then perhaps they are hoping it will excuse them from the current financial mess.

I dunno. But I do know I'd like to see where that figure originated from.

As for The Olympics, all sport to me is as interesting as watching paint dry. Hosting the Olympics is costing the UK a helluva lot of money and there's also the security risk. Where I live will suffer traffic delays and disruption whilst the games are on. All in all the whole thing adds up, on paper, to a bad idea.

But.

there's this little thing called National Pride. Hosting the games means that in our lifetime we saw our homeland invite sports people from all over the world to celebrate a long tradition. The UK will be news for a few weeks all over the globe.

I like that, I really do.

There will always be critics and moaners but what the hell, this country and all it's different goverments waste enough money on other stupid things, why not introduce a feelgood factor for the population now and again?

A bit like the Dome really, so many critics but we done it didn't we? It was built - cost a fortune - but it's now a London landmark.

I like it when mankind makes his mark in a positive way and all those who would stop spending money on what they see as a waste wouldn't see anything beneficial as an alternative, it just doesn't work like that. To host the games in the Uk, I think, is a positive thing, something for all the population of this small isle to feel patriotic about.
 
floppybootstomp said:
Maybe my eyesight's failing but I couldn't see in that news story where it said the Goverment is having to borrow £80 billion to pay dole money. Got a link?

If that has been said it's either poor journalism or if the Goverment has confirmed it is so, then it's politics.
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It was said on the news at 1.00 BBC Today cant find any confirmation on it but I will keep looking.


I dunno. But I do know I'd like to see where that figure originated from.
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Me also "scaremongering" thats what they like to do:nod:
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I've just re-read the thread and it appears to me the figure of £80 billion would appear to be the thread author's estimate.

As such is doesn't really hold water does it?

I looked, took in the figure, and was quite horrified that the Goverment had announced it's having to borrow such a huge amount to pay almost two million unemployed.

For all you know, sir, they may have actually stowed away the contributions from working folks wages and are using that cash to pay unemployment benefit. But tbh I doubt it.

Just goes to show how a suggestion, no matter how false, can grab people's attention and make them sit up and take notice. A favourite ploy of our scumbag tabloids, that little ruse.

So, what we have here is nobody has actually said the Goverment is borrowing huge sums of cash to pay an army of unemployed eh? Naughty naughty...

I think that all those unemployed people are complete lazy layabouts and should all be forced to toil ten hours a day removing graffitti and bubble gum and if they refuse to do that then make them homeless and force them to sleep under railway bridges in cardboard boxes and sell their children to Arabs and if that doesn't teach them a lesson then march them into a muddy field, line them up and shoot them dead, damn parasites on society, never in my born days, it's so much worse these days, workshy, bring back conscription, no respect, send a gunboat......... rant rant fume fume, turning purple, steam coming out of ears, crikey, I've suffered a coronary :eek:

I blame it all on Bill Hailey myself, all those Teds slashing cinema seats, it's a disgrace :)
 
Just buy British and lets surround the country with water and get a cracking Navy...and even hold BBQ`s in winter...
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Then we can enjoy Flop`s summer time shoot out of "God forsaking illeterate t*spots"


Can i have a top of the range "machine" please :)
 
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