Do We Really Want Full Employment in This Country?

What appears to be the main problem with the older unemployed people today is the lack of assistance, encouragment or creation of activities that will give them a purpose to fulfil any potential that hey still have. So much energy – perhaps understandable to a point – is the energies and efforts put into helping the younger people who have left schools or colleges without any outstanding qualifications. Money has been spent for work creation, opportunities and educational systems for younger people in a vane attempt to prolong the time before the inevitability of many of our young citizens adding numbers to the dole queues which is not a good reflelction on the efforts of the ruling political parties at the time that happen to be in power.

In order to manage such situations properly attempts should bde made to rehabiliate older out of work people also. There is a noticed total lack of help for the rehabilitation of back to work creation for such older people or for new businesses or ventures which in themselves could create further employment. I have looked at home start courses etc for different possible ventures – even now at my age of 67 years old and I have been unemployed and later on disabled since 1987 and still because of age and disability people like myself are ‘put on the scrap heaps of non use or purpose to the state’. When younger people see older people who have got no assistance it is understandable to see why they show total apathy when they faced with a) coming from a poor and disadvantaged background with not a great deal of education and b) having little help or encouragment to seek out what abilities they have – and we all have abilities in sone manner somewhere – they find that they just cannot get any form of help in order to induce a successful goal and purpose and thinbk on lines of ‘just what is the point when faced with a forgone conclusion anyway’. Other than the night courses which are run perhaps one or two nights a week there is little else people can do or places to go to further what aims and abilities that they may have. Very little is offered (other than the odd advertisements for such alleged help) without genuine sound advice.

I have sought out writing courses and the minimum charges for such courses are no less that £250-00 and even to pay ’so much weekly or monthly’ for such courses or college training is an added pressure for people who are not so financially well off. Much talk is heard a bout work creation but when ideas are created or a possible created invention come to the forefront there is so much opposition and excuses made by the government to say ‘there are not the funds to help’ and rather than spend a little time in trying to help with work creation such potential entreupeners are ignored. I wrote three times to our famous Lord Alan Sugar with a request for some advice on how to start a brand new – what would be a most popular – new business venture idea but I just got ignored. Perhaps Lord Alan Sugar does not like poor people who want to seek advice with a new business idea and obviously will not risk being shown that there are others – given the chance – that can succeed in business too. Lord Sugar – with respect – obviously at present just likes to show off a good public image on television and show other people how successful and rich he is. This is NOT a clever, productive or helpful move for those who wish to improve people’s status, lives or want to encourage peole to become successful.