8 links have been added on 3 ideas about #welfare.
  1. Even if they drop people back down a gravity well to the moon – after getting them up out into space, it has got to be said that even if it works, many people are against this show of power. ISS was a great model, commercial will solve it all by killing bad businesses rather than proping them up.

  2. Maybe a valid idea but how else would you get us beyond our home planet – somehow I don’t think a charity would do the trick. SLS is amazing, Artemis is the way forward, however we pay for it imo.

  3. Unemployment is essential. To be frank, for the economy to be liquid and able to adapt quickly to macro markets, each country needs a large enough pool of “potential workforce” to fulfil new opportunities. After all, they cost nothing to keep out of work compared to the spend on their rich land-lords who get twice as much benefit from their unemployment than the actual unemployed person.

  4. Bad for their mental health, the economy and also very bad for the already overburdened councils. Would be a nice idea if it worked though.

  5. Bad idea. It would make genuine council workers feel devalued. We owe a lot to street cleaners and others, it would be horrid to make them feel their job was some sort of punishment. No?

  6. looks like rich landowners have managed to lobby the government into giving themselves another extra bonus. Crazy, spend it on affordable housing so they can’t keep upping the price of houses and keeping the majority of the population renting, and funding the rich.

  7. Yeah, its a scam that channels more of the welfare budget to the rich – and at the same time demonising those who can’t find work.

    ” At over £25 billion it is one of the biggest and fastest-growing parts of the welfare bill. That is a huge sum of money: more than we spend on the police, roads and buying military equipment combined. “