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jinglepupskye
You are still under the mistaken impression that there are jobs available for everyone who should be working. The reality is that there isn't. That's fact, like it or not.

There are hundreds of NHS students who have just completed their training and won't get jobs in the NHS. Why? Because the NHS won't fund those jobs. That's the reality. So all of those students who desperately want to use their skills are having to either sit on their backsides or do work which is not what they trained for.

I would refer you the blog in the Healthcare forum of a physio graduate who is trying to find work.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=601714

I also think that you are mistaken in your views of parents who are unemployed. I know that you may have read it in the paper but the reason that those people get into the paper is because they are so uncommon. If every unemployed parent starved their children then they wouldn't bother printing it as it would not be news.

I would also point out that for many children the worst thing that can happen to them is to be taken into care. Children in care tend to do less well in school, which makes it even more unlikely that they will be able to get a job.

According to the Department for Schools, Children & Families only 7% of looked after children achieved 5 or more GCSEs Grade A*-C which is really the minimum standard of entry for most jobs.

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000691/index.shtml

The average across the UK for the same attainment of children is 46.8%. That is a huge difference.

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/group_07.pl?Mode=Z&No=840&Base=b&Type=LA&Phase=1&Year=07

As to your point about MPs. If they set the example by sticking their noses in the trough and grabbing every penny they can, by fair means or foul, then why should the great unwashed not follow their example? We could also discuss the tax evasion and avoidance which many businesses devote themselves to.


I empathize with the people who want to work, and are struggling. But the NHS aren't given the funding needed to supply these jobs. The NHS need these people, they are understaffed. The government aren't using the money wisely, we are a wealthy country we shouldn't have this problem.
In that respect can you blame people for avoiding tax knowing where the money goes?

Also, if more money went into the education authority there would be more support for the children who need it.
It all comes down to the fact that the money is going to places that it shouldn't be going.

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