Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 27
th, 2014 at 4:58am:
GA wrote on Mar 25
th, 2014 at 1:04pm:
Now if they do take up the option of doing the same jobs, men by default become displaced. And ... what then should become of them?
Should we abandon 'society' for the sake of "Freedom".
Precisely.
I was there to witness what happens when women are put onto production machines that were once the province of husbands earning the wherewithal to pay off a mortgage while providing for their family.
Alas, no more.
Middle aged women on factory machines are ensuring a double-income for themselves and their husbands while their house is already paid off and their children have left home ... with meanwhile the displaced young husbands are standing in the dole queues no longer able to afford to service a mortgage repayment, and now live in rented premises with a pregnant young wife and government rental assistance.
An assets test should be applied to middle aged women applying for a job.
If their circumstance is one of already having achieved the purchase of a house and the raising of their children, then priorities should eliminate them from the workforce if young people are standing in the dole queues.
There's greed and plenty on the one hand, while others are unemployed, impoverished, and stuck in the rental trap.
Middle aged
ethnics going for their third or fourth property purchase ... while young ones are condemned to a lifetime of struggling between the dole and casual work.
Have to agree, Sir Herbert, but please - no ethnic slurs.
I've advocated a priority list for employment - those already in a family situation with an income above a certain level etc are set aside to allow employment of the unemployed first - then the under-employed and so forth.
Such a system could be and will be inevitably installed by a 'strong, centralised government' of one 'side' or the other - and of course , such a proposal will draw the inevitable screams of 'fascist/communist' etc.
Well it IS totally socio-fascist - but what options are left when those out there who handle the jobs market are as unruly and stupid and selfish as a bunch of kids?
You rightly see a growing social and economic divide - I just read an article elsewhere that said that 40% of kids in their twenties now would never marry - how then achieve the Nirvana required today of the MADIF?
ONLY by an unceasing demand for upward movement of INCOME for the individual - an inevitable step that will defeat the whole process and create more and more problems of 'cost of living' and 'excessive wages'.
So - as before - either the employers get their shlt together and start to employ the unemployed first and put on the back burner those who already have their basic life - totally socialist there!! - or the government will one day soon step in and 'make that hard decision' for them.
It's either that or a revolution.
ADDS:- For those gain-sayers - the inevitable result is a lowering of the cost of labour - also a reduction in the cost of homes etc due to a lowered investor market - and consequently a beginning - along with considerable angst - of the return to some form of sanity in our economic and social models, and the restoration of some hope for the young ones these days of a decent life and retirement.
I've done every hard yard and more - I can take it - but I did not do those things so my children and their children would do it hard.
And be advised - a society pays for its mistakes such as these in some way or other . Harken unto the ceaseless whining here about 'dole bludgers', who should ' get a job'... as if there are jobs out there waiting for them to step into.
when a society deliberately sets out to create a permanent underclass - as did this one starting in the 1980's - then it must be prepared to pay for the development of an 'underworld', a black market, and all that goes with it.
Put simply - people have to eat and prosper somehow - if they cannot do so by the sweat of their brows - they will do it off the fat of the oppressors.