Keith, I won't even bother commenting on Marek's reply, that is as much as it is worth!
Keeping to the particular point, if you believe anyone on £65 a week JSA can afford to spend all day in a pub, I feel somewhat sorry for you!
In Britain, official unemployment is 7,7%, however the real figure is no doubt much higher. But, the official figure that calculates 7,7% unemployment also calculates that among people aged between 16 and 24, the unemployment rate is over 20%.
I have an idea that some people making comments about young unemployed people receive a pension, they do not fear an essential deprivation of their own financial situation in the future, they feel themselves guaranteed.
When they were younger and working, they no doubt didn't have the same economic situation to deal with as we know it now. That were the days when unemployment was so much lower, and the State did not have sovereign debt anywhere near as high as it is now.
There were many things that needed sorting out then in the economy, but instead it got so much worse (unemployment, national debt).
I feel sorry for the society that has 20% youth unemployment, a work-market freely open to 27 countries, where 90% of the jobs fo to foreign workers.
But it really is not my fault, and on this note, I do not feel in any way guilty. There isn't really anything else to say about it all.
