And Welfare for All

Paul Mccartney has a free bus pass! He no doubt uses it to circle Penny Lane whenever he feels like  a magical nostalgia tour. He gets winter fuel allowance to warm his chilly mansion in Sussex or wherever, possibly. And a free tv license. So when his accountant is telling him how many tens of thousands of pounds he has paid in tax he can comfort himself round his freely heated fire while watching tv.. His children went to state schools so he sure has had his money's worth out of the tax system!

So we are all in it together Paulie. But my real point is this. The welfare system system is crazy. And the language it is couched in is fascinating, coy euphemisms are employed to conceal what's going on because if it were couched in plain english we could all see it for the fraud that it is.. It's not called welfare, it's called Tax Credits(?!)

'Mandy' -I conceal her real name of course has lots of kids,and works a bit so she gets 'working tax credits' which as far as I can gather means that whatever money she earns through her employer is matched by an equivalent welfare payment. (Correct me if I have got this wrong anybody). But she can only work about 23 hrs a week if she is to get that duplicate state payment. So we hear of employees who just work 23 hours while their other colleagues work full time and they get effectively 46 hours worth of pay for 23 hours work. (Again,please correct me if I have this wrong lady or gentleman).

How does such a system square with the gov assertion that it is 'making work pay'?

So even people who are working are on welfare. Left wing people say bizarely that this is not fair -the State is bailing out the employers who should be paying their staff enough so the State does not have to :wait for this: subsidise the wages the employers should be paying! Get your head round that pretzellogic if you can. So such welfare - hope you are following this - is really not welfare at all but a subsidy to the employer!

Meanwhile back in the real world we shall continue. That is only one of numerous benefits our fictional Mandy is getting.She has a live in lover but the state thinks she is a single parent living just with her kids. She gets child benefit -for spreading her legs to her 3 different male 'friends', child benefit, housing benefit, the list goes on.

Do not beleive you working lady and gentlman for one minute all the Duncan Smith type tory rhetoric about Universal Credit, making work pay yada yada yada the welfare gravy train is alive and well  -and kicking you in the teeth. Governments come and go but welfare endures.

Hence the reason why the Capitalist Part will end the welfare state and people will take out unemployment insurance like they do pet or fire insurance if they choose to. Endof.