Recession? We are Also Entering a Depression

I read the newspapers and watch TV and hear the radio every day and everyone is talking about the recession. With these headlines and interviews it is rapidly becoming a depression as I thought it would over a year ago.

In the Daily Express today (13th August 2009) they wrote about one in five people under 25 years of age out of work and a total running at 2.4 million unemployed. This is a false reading for a start, because this government is encouraging many to get into debt with student loans and go to University. Many of these courses would not guarantee employment after graduation because there would not be enough vacancies to go around.

The government are also talking about increasing the age of retirement because of the pension’s shortfall. That may suit more who want to work on but that would mean cutting vacancies for those younger workers; so that doesn’t work out anyway, especially if the younger generation have families and live off the state, will work out cheaper to bring the pension age down not up.

But we shouldn’t be talking about people not working or having a career. We should be manufacturing again as leaders in engineering and construction. We should be inventing and exporting as much if not more than importing. We appear to be promoting more for leisure for those who do not want to work than those who do.

Peter Mandleson wants the Banks to lend more money to businesses, but you can’t just give out money if there is no guarantee they will get it back. That is why the Country is as good as bankrupt now; taxpayers are running out because many have lost their jobs.

He is encouraging more immigrants into this country with the excuse to do jobs that he says our people do not want to. Well he is daft, many of them want to come to claim the state benefits with their families close behind and environmentally we haven’t enough room for them anyway. He is obviously encouraging them to live twenty to a room and for well under the minimum wage.

There are jobs many do not want to do, but if they want money they should work for it even if it is cleaning toilets, harvesting crops, cleaning streets. You make them work or they get no benefits.

I had to give up my job after an industrial accident, and as I lost confidence and couldn’t get another job where I wanted, (Some of which was due to my age but I couldn’t prove it) I went cleaning, even some personal care for a short time, but it brought me a wage and gave me time to sort myself out with a new career. No I didn’t like what I was doing but it gave me pride to work and not shirk.

I know many cannot do this and some are disabled to a point that they cannot work, they have my empathy. As I watch soldiers and other service men and women return home disabled if not in wooden boxes, those are people to be proud of, it is just a shame that they are not getting adequate protection from the government, but that is another story “History repeating itself”.

The only way we will get out of this mess is to kick out this Government and elect another even if it is a coalition with only honest MP’s whose hearts are for this country’s benefit and not for their pockets, who will pledge on oath to make manufacturing the key objective to make this country great, then we might get somewhere. Unfortunately I think it is too late and it won’t happen at least until next year when I would put some money on Gordon Brown resigning on health grounds and someone like Mandleson giving us empty promises and passing the buck on the events of the last fifteen years.