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The economists of the time, such as Reverend Malthus,
argued that to give them poor relief destroyed their incentive and
demoralized those who were working. Malthus and others believed
that capitalism would eventually find work for all
It seems to me that the unemployment stats that most governments
issue are patently false. They don't count people on "training programs"
or those who have simply given up trying to find work because
they know none is available.
In 1978, unemployment in the UK was about 1 million. Now it is
2.4
The key to the whole issue is that only 40-50 percent of the
electorate in the U.S. bothers to vote on election day. In the last
elections barely 40 percent voted. The pollsters and the party
strategeists know that these are the people that count. Most
of these are upper middle class
