Iain Duncan Smith, our well heeled,
Works and Pensions Secretary, recently stated that poverty was the
result of “ worklessness and welfare dependency, addiction,
educational failure, debt or family breakdown” Strange that he
should put worklessness first, considering that recent figures show
that in this country we have more than 6 million working families
living in poverty. We also have approximately 5 million adults living
in poverty from homes where nobody works. So bang goes that theory
that if you are unemployed and you get a job, whizz-bang, you're out
of poverty. Another little fact about working gets you out of
poverty, almost one third of children living in poverty in this
country, come from working homes.
It is obvious to any ordinary
person that in-work poverty is as much a problem as is out of work
poverty, in this system of capitalism. Even the apoligists for
capitalism can't help but see that when you have one fifth of women
and one seventh of men working for less than £7 an hour, you are
goping to have working families in poverty. The situation is getting
worse by the month, as “austerity” bites, and incomes shrink,
more and more people are having to claim “tax credits”, (tax
payers subsides to employers who don't pay a living wage).
There is also the wild claim that our
country is riddled with families who have never worked, yet the true
figures state that only 2% of all working age households contain no
one who has never worked.
Of course their ideological
thinking to create a UK sweatshop economy, pushes them to say, get them off benefit and into work and
the poverty problem is solved, it would not cross their tiny twisted
minds to say that they are being paid too little. Nor do they open
their eyes to the fact that shouting about getting people into work,
when there are no jobs, doesn't fit rational thinking. Then again,
this is capitalism and those making the legislation are mainly
millionaires with bundles of shares in the corporate world and a
vested interest to keep wages down and profits up to fatten there
bank accounts and those of their shareholder friends.
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