Slimebeast said:
Also, it's not only about unemplyment, it's about leechyness. There's many lazy parasites out there. |
A. I was laughing because it just seems like such an unbelieveably high figure.
B. Whilst I am wrong technically (16% - 17%, whatever), I am not wrong in my unbelief because 42% of those households only have one person eligible for employment and so it is a cherry picked statistic to make the situation sound *a lot* worse than it actually is. 17% of households makes you think *WOW WTF!!!* until you look at the figures behind it, then it becomes more reasonable.
Also, not all unemployed people are on the dole and the vast majority of the people who have recently become unemployed over the past year or two due to the economy are anything but lazy. Fair enough you get the 1-2% that is lazy but the vast majority of recent cases are people who are down on their luck.
In fact there is nothing more than they would like to do than get back into employment, the people who are currently losing their jobs due to the economy are not lazy and leeching of society at all, they hate the fact they're unemployed, trust me. In fact it's made me a little upset that you are trying to bring laziness into a debate about recent rises in unemployment figures.
