Britain Faces Victorian Levels of Inequality, Says OxFam
14th June 2012
The poor in Britain face a “perfect storm” of benefit cuts, rising living costs and a lack of jobs that result in a return to Victorian levels of inequality, a charity has said.
Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.
Left as an unjustified assumption is that ‘inequality’, per se, is somehow a Serious Problem … which of course it is to the Levelers in OxFam — but for normal people? Not so much.
Benefit cuts? Well, if fifty years of socialist kleptocracy hadn’t raised two generations of slackers dependent on the government, that wouldn’t be a problem. Rising living costs? Try toting up the costs of silly government regulations layered on top of normal business costs. (Guess how much of the price of auto fuel is taxes. No wonder ‘living costs’ are rising.) Lack of jobs? Figure the costs of hiring a new worker under the Nanny State and see whether you can make a profit doing so.
So what’s the solution? According to OxFam, more government. ‘Let’s try adding more of what got us in this situation in the first place! Of course, what a wonderful idea!’
June 14th, 2012 at 11:07
So, what about all these wonderful ‘job creators’ that have been sucking up all the money for the last few decades?
Where are the jobs the ‘job creators’ were supposed to be creating?