So Ian Duncan Smith thinks it is not fair that
benefits have increased more than wages, and believes that benefit
increases should be capped below the rate of inflation. Of course,
in his drive for fairness, the fact that wages have increased less than the rate of inflation
doesn't mean that he will call for an increase in wage settlements.
What fair minded Ian Duncan Smith fails to mention, is that those on
benefit, as a rule, tend to be living near, at, or below the poverty
level, and any increase below the rate of inflation will most
certainly push them further down that depressing pit. Bearing in mind
that a large proportion of those who are working are also at, near,
or below the poverty level, any wage increase that is below the rate
of inflation is in fact a wage cut, adding more pressure to the endless struggle just to get by. Which is the situation that the
ordinary working population of this country have been suffering for
more than two years. Will our righteous Mr Smith, in his crusade for
fairness, call on employers to make all wage increase at least equal
to or greater than inflation. Most certainly not, that is not the
direction to go if your are trying to create a UK sweatshop economy.
Make no mistake about it, that is the grand plan, not just for the
UK, but for the whole of Europe. Bit by bit we are being squeezed,
bit by bit our standard of living is being lower. We are not at the
level of the people of Greece, yet, but we are going in that
direction, it is just a matter of time. Unless of course we decide
that we have had enough of being screwed by millionaires, for the
benefit of millionaires, and start to take control and change the
system to one that sees to the needs of all our people.
