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LeftishBrit

(41,208 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 06:32 PM Jan 2013

Poor 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!

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Poor people still clinging on to life, says Duncan Smith (Original Post) LeftishBrit Jan 2013 OP
I see the Brits are way behind us on social policy once again. Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #1
You may be interested to know... LeftishBrit Jan 2013 #2
Now there's a marriage made in Heaven! non sociopath skin Jan 2013 #3
Apprently the DWP are to create 1000 new carpentry jobs...... T_i_B Jan 2013 #4

LeftishBrit

(41,208 posts)
2. You may be interested to know...
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 07:11 PM
Jan 2013

that in 2005, Duncan-Smith co-authored an article in the Wall Street Journal on 'compassionate conservativism' with the one and only Rick Santorum!

T_i_B

(14,740 posts)
4. Apprently the DWP are to create 1000 new carpentry jobs......
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 08:04 AM
Jan 2013

....narrowing the doors to job centres so that only thin people can get in!

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