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  The 'Benefit Society(?)' goes hand-in-hand with the knee-jerk 'sack the workforce and see the benefit of rationalisation' business ploy. It may have taken two world wars and countless other minor scuffles for we as a Nation to come to terms with the idea of dealing with our population in terms other than 'expendable'.
  Yes, national and pan-national circumstances may require that an individual is working one minute and unemployed the next, but s/he is ever to be viewed as a National Asset. [something spoken about but seldom a reality]
  A business may well be right that their books are kept in the black by rationalisation now and higher employment sometime in the future, but we cannot, and the taxation take and spend cannot, abandon people as easily as business can. If viable employment cannot be found for a portion of the 'working' population then a benefit system should ensure that life goes on in a reasonable fashion for those without employment.
  This particular bullet is never to be bit while we , as a population, accept Political Dualism as the only way. More-so when both Political Partys, the one seen as the only possible successor to the other, share much the same view on all fronts.
  Businesses complain that the available workforce is ill-equipped for the (notional) job opportunities. How better can they hope to approach a day when the available workforce is ill-nourished/malnourished, homeless and hopeless to boot?
  
  That our lack of political options is matched by our lack of business acumen and drive among those charged with the task of 'creating' work and wealth bodes more ill for our future.

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