Comments on: Unemployment figures: employment on a knife-edge http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/12/unemployment-figures-employment-on-a-knife-edge/ Policy news and comment from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Thu, 24 May 2012 17:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/12/unemployment-figures-employment-on-a-knife-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4988 Robert Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:53:08 +0000 http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/?p=5261#comment-4988 I'm disabled and before you say anything yes it's real, I'm classed as being dead from the waist down, some say that includes my brains, but hell I'm use to having real nice things said. I was down at the job center s few months ago before they kicked me out and told me to come back next year April in fact. But I had to go through the new medical for ESA and was told I cannot work but could do community work, so i would not then be listed as disabled. I now do an hour a week for my benefits, but as yet they have been unable to find me anything to do. My Nephew is now doing a training course in college, he does an hour a week because they have so many people they do not have the places so everyone does an hour, of course once your on these courses your not classed as being unemployed. fact is this has to be the lowest method of keeping the numbers down it's as bad as Thatcher and Blair using sickness and IB. what are the real number of unemployed in the UK, I bet it's not far off 5 million plus. I’m disabled and before you say anything yes it’s real, I’m classed as being dead from the waist down, some say that includes my brains, but hell I’m use to having real nice things said. I was down at the job center s few months ago before they kicked me out and told me to come back next year April in fact.

But I had to go through the new medical for ESA and was told I cannot work but could do community work, so i would not then be listed as disabled.

I now do an hour a week for my benefits, but as yet they have been unable to find me anything to do.

My Nephew is now doing a training course in college, he does an hour a week because they have so many people they do not have the places so everyone does an hour, of course once your on these courses your not classed as being unemployed.

fact is this has to be the lowest method of keeping the numbers down it’s as bad as Thatcher and Blair using sickness and IB.

what are the real number of unemployed in the UK, I bet it’s not far off 5 million plus.

]]> By: Dale B. Halling http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/12/unemployment-figures-employment-on-a-knife-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4803 Dale B. Halling Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:59:56 +0000 http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/?p=5261#comment-4803 Innovation is the only way to increase real per capita income and increase employment. The consumption side economic policies we are pursuing are just digging us a bigger hole. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. The incredible innovation of the 90s was based on technology start-up companies built on intellectual capital, financial capital, and human capital. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. If we want to create jobs, we need to have laws that encourage entrepreneurial start-ups. This issues are discussed in more detail in my book The Rise and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation – for more information see http://hallingblog.com/my-forthcoming-book-1209/ Innovation is the only way to increase real per capita income and increase employment. The consumption side economic policies we are pursuing are just digging us a bigger hole. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. The incredible innovation of the 90s was based on technology start-up companies built on intellectual capital, financial capital, and human capital. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. Our patent laws have been weakened reducing the value of intellectual capital. Sarbanes Oxley has made it impossible to go public reducing financial capital for start-ups and the FASB rules on stock options have made it harder to attract human capital to start-ups. If we want to create jobs, we need to have laws that encourage entrepreneurial start-ups.
This issues are discussed in more detail in my book The Rise and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation – for more information see http://hallingblog.com/my-forthcoming-book-1209/

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