Posted on 08/26/2009 9:37:09 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
The number of jobless households has risen at its fastest rate since Labour came to power with almost five million people now living in homes where no one works.
New figures reveal a massive 4.8million people of working age now live in a home where no one holds down a job.
The data for April to June this year shows an increase of 500,000 on a year ago before the recession took a crippling grip on Britain.
The percentage of households where no adults work is now 16.9 per cent, up 1.1 per cent on 2008, according to the data from the Office for National Statistics.
It is the highest rate since 1999 and the largest year-on-year increase since 1997 when Labour came to power.
The data will fuel fears that the Government has cultivated a 'Shameless' generation dependent on the state and comes after the Daily Mail revealed at least five million people of working age have not done a day's work since Labour came to power.
The figure does not include the 1.9million children who now live in workless homes, which is up 170,000 on 2008. Workless households now number 3.3million, up from 240,000, while working homes are at 10.7million - down 410,000.
A massive 40 per cent of single parent families are workless. The rate is highest in the north east at 23.2 per cent and lowest in the East of England at 12.2 per cent.
At the same time, an analysis of official data by the Tories shows that three million in England and Wales had no job between 1996 and 2001, while a further two million had never had a job.
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It would help A LOT if they just required people getting any benefits to do something. Pick up trash, paint people’s houses, whatever.
I saw a show on Animal Planet recently about a married couple from England. The show was focused on their pet dog, but they happened to mention that the woman had a nervous breakdown and has been on disability payments for 18 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!! Her husband was also on disability but they didn’t say for what. BOTH of them looked and acted perfectly healthy. Its that kind of welfare state that is causing more and more people to not want to work. The problem is that the gov’t will eventually run out of other peoples money, i.e California.
“with almost five million people now living in homes where no one works.”.....
Obama’s voting base.....
You must be meaning taking jobs off people who already have jobs.
Good Call (Sarcasm)
Why not take the work off lawyers or senators instead?
...well a good start would be for them to all get off the booze and get their teeth fixed...then they would look better on job interviews.
The liberals’ attitude of moral relavitism and removal of personal responsibility contributed to that couple’s sense of entitlement to permanent disability payments. But it started in the UK and Europe as far back as the late Fifties and Sixties with the rise of the Left in those countries. Sad to say, we’re already that way in the US thanks to libs and trial lawyers (sorry for being redundant).
I don’t care what they do. No one should get anything for nothing. And who exactly is picking up trash and painting poor people’s houses? There are volunteers who do that sort of things. Wait, maybe you LIKE people to sit around and just get a govt benefit.
But let them do YOUR line of work ( presuming you neither paint nor pick up trash for a living) before deciding whose jobs they terminate.
It’s always frustrating when someone decides to pick at something that has almost nothing to do with a post. As I said, I could care less what they do, but they should do something. You, btw, are offering nothing of value. Perhaps you should go back to bed and get up on the other side.
She is just so darned scary looking!
And btw, not only am I racist, but apparently I’m also suggesting throwing a lot of people out of work.... ;)
This is exactly right. This kind of situation is just not sustainable. If you make it possible for people to get by without working, and you make the differential of earnings between working and not working so small, a lot of people are going to stay at home. I know lots of folk for whom it literally does not pay to work - and I dont blame them at all. I think it’s the systems fault. Just check the interal monologue:
Hmm...if I stay on benefits I get enough to get by, and I can lounge around watching daytime television OR I can work hard for forty hours a week and get an extra £20. Hmm...what should I choose to do?
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