BBC NEWS | Politics | Tories spell out benefit cut plan
They seem to think they'll do this by slashing incapacity benefit. Will it work? According to the article, they seem to believe 2.6m people are genuinely incapacitated, and the rest ought to work and the Tory party will help them.
Labour have described this as "callous" - which as far as I'm concerned, goes to show how out of touch they are. Something needs to be done IMO. The questions we have to ask ourselves are a) is it really possibly to identify those in real need of the money for the right reasons and b) do you trust the Tories to *really* help get the "scroungers" back to work?
I'm sceptical - this is a problem that has stemmed from a culture of allowing the state to pick up the tab and certain people absolving themselves of responsibility. It seems to me that either you cut it completely or not at all. Half measures might be possible but they won't change the culture of no responsibility and they certainly won't produce any sort of real savings.
I believe that if any government wants to save money, they should pull the armed forces from Afghanistan and reduce the size. Difficult decisions need to be made I think; pandering to stereotypes in the form of pretending to nail benefit scroungers just won't cut it.
They seem to think they'll do this by slashing incapacity benefit. Will it work? According to the article, they seem to believe 2.6m people are genuinely incapacitated, and the rest ought to work and the Tory party will help them.
Labour have described this as "callous" - which as far as I'm concerned, goes to show how out of touch they are. Something needs to be done IMO. The questions we have to ask ourselves are a) is it really possibly to identify those in real need of the money for the right reasons and b) do you trust the Tories to *really* help get the "scroungers" back to work?
I'm sceptical - this is a problem that has stemmed from a culture of allowing the state to pick up the tab and certain people absolving themselves of responsibility. It seems to me that either you cut it completely or not at all. Half measures might be possible but they won't change the culture of no responsibility and they certainly won't produce any sort of real savings.
I believe that if any government wants to save money, they should pull the armed forces from Afghanistan and reduce the size. Difficult decisions need to be made I think; pandering to stereotypes in the form of pretending to nail benefit scroungers just won't cut it.