Council Could Be a Major New Employer ; Letters

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Following Patrick Nicholls's discussion on October 7 about the deserving and undeserving poor, I don't believe the undeserving poor are as undeserving as all that. It is not their fault that people at the top of our society changed the way the nation made its living so radically that perhaps a majority lack the necessary genes to succeed in this casino commercial environment, which still hasn't gone away. We imprison our labouring classes in rundown estates, like a cook who ordered too much meat puts the excess in a freezer to be thawed out who knows when. We don't care how many live and die having enjoyed only a fraction of the self-fulfilment that was their birthright. To add insult to injury, we import apparently more suitable people from abroad, to find their sons and daughters on the same scrap heap as the Brits whose jobs they pinched. If our society benefits from market traders "selling short" shares they don't even own, it must provide employment for those made redundant as a result. Paying people not to work is not good enough because the self-respect from working is more important for our immortal souls, even, than making a living. And since we have an established church, caring for Her Majesty's subjects' immortal souls must be a constitutional requirement.

The public sector does most things worse than the private sector but, even so, every council could do a lot more to help their own economies by employing every genuine local person without a job on the same wage as unemployment benefit, which could then be scrapped. It wouldn't matter if working weeks were not completely filled if everyone did something useful every week. They could turn recycling into a profitable enterprise, instead of rubbish collection being an expense to tax payers because every bit of waste has value if it isn't mixed with other waste.

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