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Originally Posted by Kizzy

All these private overseas companies are the key as it will be impossible to trace who they have involvements with, and I would bet that the elite in our government are well in there creaming offshore their share.
They don't care, they want the old, ill, disabled and mentally incapable to just die...
There's plenty of others to take their place when they shuffle off, there is no such thing as society.
Soon there will be no welfare state and it will be every man for himself once again, and the last 100yrs will have gone full circle as we are dangerously close to many many people living as they would during the depression.

The thing is, they can't afford to dismantle the welfare state without forcing their buddy private companies to dramatically increase wages. A huge chunk of the welfare state is in-work top ups paid to families in employment, and they are essential. If you remove them, you remove vast swathes of people from the consumer economy - they won't have any money to buy all of the frivolous tat that keeps the capitalist world ticking. And they won't be available as a low-priced workforce. The government knows this. That is why they repeatedly and viciously target the unemployed and the disabled. They are worth far less to the "system". And that's why it's pointless because the vast majority of benefits are in work benefits and pensions.