rogerthecat
Dirt Disciple
Stick Legs, I am with you all the way.
As I own and run 2 businesses does that make me a capitalist to be abhorred by the moral left wing? I have provided jobs for 10 people who contribute to society, we all pay taxes as individuals, also as a company. I want to recruit more but the barriers to offering either an apprentice ship or taking on a graduate are so onerous I really cannot afford the time and associated expense, the employment legislation in place now makes it almost impossible for small companies to recruit quickly and easily. So we will revert to freelancers.
Another issue we face is the attitude of young people we have interviewed - they appear to know all of their "rights" as an employee, they know how much they believe that they are worth and unless this is substantially better than their benefits they see no point in working, even though their position would improve with positive performance and results.
Silverclaws - I have worked in a QUANGO in Plymouth and as a supplier to a huge welfare to work organisation and was staggered by the vast sums invested in those without work. Easily equivalent to the bankers bail out and it has been going on quietly in the background for decades. The latter business owner now owns a stately home and is reputed to have a personal worth of over £20m all funded by the public purse and this person is not the only one.
The processes in place that allowed this pillaging of the state purses was the New Deal programme which was an exercise in removing the politically problematic figure of the long term unemployed - yes it did get some people back into work, but in large it was designed to massage the statistics.
The idiot on BBC news last night blaming immigrant labour for his plight needs to be taken on one side and shown just what the immigrant labour is prepared to do for the money. We have an office in LA and the situation is the same - predominantly lazy white workers refusing to take up a job that they believe beneath them, then complaining that the immigrant Hispanics are everywhere taking all the jobs.
Non-market capitalism is the only way we will dig ourselves out of this mess, allow businesses to start, grow and employ. Keep them owner managed to retain focus on people and services rather than share value. Relax the enormous burden of red tape surrounding businesses. We need to get some of these rioters to realise that setting up a business is a route to personal wealth and self respect not something to be reviled and attacked.
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As I own and run 2 businesses does that make me a capitalist to be abhorred by the moral left wing? I have provided jobs for 10 people who contribute to society, we all pay taxes as individuals, also as a company. I want to recruit more but the barriers to offering either an apprentice ship or taking on a graduate are so onerous I really cannot afford the time and associated expense, the employment legislation in place now makes it almost impossible for small companies to recruit quickly and easily. So we will revert to freelancers.
Another issue we face is the attitude of young people we have interviewed - they appear to know all of their "rights" as an employee, they know how much they believe that they are worth and unless this is substantially better than their benefits they see no point in working, even though their position would improve with positive performance and results.
Silverclaws - I have worked in a QUANGO in Plymouth and as a supplier to a huge welfare to work organisation and was staggered by the vast sums invested in those without work. Easily equivalent to the bankers bail out and it has been going on quietly in the background for decades. The latter business owner now owns a stately home and is reputed to have a personal worth of over £20m all funded by the public purse and this person is not the only one.
The processes in place that allowed this pillaging of the state purses was the New Deal programme which was an exercise in removing the politically problematic figure of the long term unemployed - yes it did get some people back into work, but in large it was designed to massage the statistics.
The idiot on BBC news last night blaming immigrant labour for his plight needs to be taken on one side and shown just what the immigrant labour is prepared to do for the money. We have an office in LA and the situation is the same - predominantly lazy white workers refusing to take up a job that they believe beneath them, then complaining that the immigrant Hispanics are everywhere taking all the jobs.
Non-market capitalism is the only way we will dig ourselves out of this mess, allow businesses to start, grow and employ. Keep them owner managed to retain focus on people and services rather than share value. Relax the enormous burden of red tape surrounding businesses. We need to get some of these rioters to realise that setting up a business is a route to personal wealth and self respect not something to be reviled and attacked.
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