07-02-12, 07:34 PM
The problem is that most people on the minimum wage are on benefits.
Big wealthy companies, dodging billions in tax, paying big shareholder dividends and paying their board of directors millions upon millions of pounds in salaries, bonuses and pensions are shirking their responsibilites by paying large chunks of their hard working staff the minimun wage (or just over), rather than a living wage.
The result is that we the tax payer subsidise multi billion pound businesses and their greedy bosses.
Nor is this any help whatsoever to our economy.
Rich people hoard money, working people spend it.
As for people who cannot work I do not believe that they should be punished for this by being plunged into poverty.
Nor is it possible for 3 million unemployed people to pick up the few dozen jobs out there.
People need to wake up to why we are in this mess.
Is it those who are on benefits who have destroyed our industry, deregulated the banks, filled the pockets of the rich with billions, wrecked the economy and practically bankrupted the UK?
I don't think so.