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Related: About this forumPoor people still clinging on to life, says Duncan Smith
The work and pensions secretary has issued a stark warning that some poor people are stubbornly clinging to life despite his best efforts to remove them from the welfare system by killing them off.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Iain Duncan Smith said that people who are poor and alive are much more likely to claim benefits and tax credits than people who are dead.
...What we need is a fairer system that involves employers paying what they want, being able to sack people when they want and for whatever reason they want.
Employers are more likely to create jobs and take on more staff if they can sack them....
(And much more at link):
http://newsthump.com/2012/12/31/poor-people-still-clinging-to-life-warns-iain-duncan-smith/
The dreadful thing is that, where IDS is concerned, it's difficult for the likes of Newsthump to come up with anything worse or more twisted than the real thing!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)that in 2005, Duncan-Smith co-authored an article in the Wall Street Journal on 'compassionate conservativism' with the one and only Rick Santorum!
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)The Skin
T_i_B
(14,740 posts)....narrowing the doors to job centres so that only thin people can get in!