Post by cleefarqhuar on Jan 18, 2014 10:32:58 GMT
Food Banks
Food banks in the UK are a recent phenomenon that have raised concerns in some sectors of society. Some say that it is a disgrace that poor people must resort to such privately administered welfare, because it is the duty of the State to provide for and care for the poor, unemployed and incompetent
But we witness every day the appalling ineffectiveness of the State provision of welfare in Britain. It is frankly appalling in the way it strips people of their self-respect and makes them idle feckless dependants upon the State.
For people earning low wages, it is hardly worth their while taking a job, because the difference in income between working and staying at home on state handouts is marginal. Who in their right minds would want to take a job that brings in, perhaps £20 per week (even less!), when they can stay at home and receive almost the same money from the welfare system for doing nothing?
That is the utter disgrace of our welfare system that causes mass unemployment amongst our young people (and others) whilst foreigners flood in to take the low-paid jobs that our welfare system prevents our own people taking
I think it can fairly be proposed that our Welfare system is one of the worst things to have been inflicted upon the poor people of our country. State provision is blind, clumsy and produces exactly those conditions that it was designed to prevent
To me, the outcry over Food Banks is sheer unthinking emotionalism from people who profess to ‘care’ about the poor yet seem happy to see them chained to a feckless dependency on sate handouts
The State is self-evidently incompetent in welfare provision and the more that its provision is taken out of the hands of the State then the better it will be for the people of our country. Food banks are a wonderful innovation that place privately initiated local charity at the heart of welfare provision. It chips away at the ‘rights’ culture that so besmirches our welfare system (many people seem to think they have the ‘right’ not to work, and indeed they do with our noxious welfare system). It removes government irresponsibility in welfare provision and places that responsibility in the hands of local communities.
So we should all welcome Food Banks as an indication of the lessening of the power of central government
Of course Food Banks on their own will not reform our welfare system, but they augur well.
Iain Duncan Smith is the first Minister, ever, since the introduction of the welfare system at the end of the war, to address the iniquities that it causes. We have seen the ‘capping’ of benefits at £26k per year, and his introduction of Universal Credit will ensure that it is far more worthwhile for people to take low-paid jobs, and hopefully see an end to the state-dependant underclass. Food banks will assist this long overdue reform, and hopefully we will see will many other Privately initiated charities helping the poor struggling along on low-paid jobs
What a wonderful signpost to the future Food Banks are!
Food banks in the UK are a recent phenomenon that have raised concerns in some sectors of society. Some say that it is a disgrace that poor people must resort to such privately administered welfare, because it is the duty of the State to provide for and care for the poor, unemployed and incompetent
But we witness every day the appalling ineffectiveness of the State provision of welfare in Britain. It is frankly appalling in the way it strips people of their self-respect and makes them idle feckless dependants upon the State.
For people earning low wages, it is hardly worth their while taking a job, because the difference in income between working and staying at home on state handouts is marginal. Who in their right minds would want to take a job that brings in, perhaps £20 per week (even less!), when they can stay at home and receive almost the same money from the welfare system for doing nothing?
That is the utter disgrace of our welfare system that causes mass unemployment amongst our young people (and others) whilst foreigners flood in to take the low-paid jobs that our welfare system prevents our own people taking
I think it can fairly be proposed that our Welfare system is one of the worst things to have been inflicted upon the poor people of our country. State provision is blind, clumsy and produces exactly those conditions that it was designed to prevent
To me, the outcry over Food Banks is sheer unthinking emotionalism from people who profess to ‘care’ about the poor yet seem happy to see them chained to a feckless dependency on sate handouts
The State is self-evidently incompetent in welfare provision and the more that its provision is taken out of the hands of the State then the better it will be for the people of our country. Food banks are a wonderful innovation that place privately initiated local charity at the heart of welfare provision. It chips away at the ‘rights’ culture that so besmirches our welfare system (many people seem to think they have the ‘right’ not to work, and indeed they do with our noxious welfare system). It removes government irresponsibility in welfare provision and places that responsibility in the hands of local communities.
So we should all welcome Food Banks as an indication of the lessening of the power of central government
Of course Food Banks on their own will not reform our welfare system, but they augur well.
Iain Duncan Smith is the first Minister, ever, since the introduction of the welfare system at the end of the war, to address the iniquities that it causes. We have seen the ‘capping’ of benefits at £26k per year, and his introduction of Universal Credit will ensure that it is far more worthwhile for people to take low-paid jobs, and hopefully see an end to the state-dependant underclass. Food banks will assist this long overdue reform, and hopefully we will see will many other Privately initiated charities helping the poor struggling along on low-paid jobs
What a wonderful signpost to the future Food Banks are!