Claimant count rises across Wales

“sochat you say we are in a global recession and Neathboy234 says we are all in it together yet most of the middle and far east and many other countries are not in recession to include China, India, Iran, Korea, Australia etc. Not all of Europe is in recession either http://tinyurl.com/cy7glmn so don`t listen to the politicians that want you to think that they are not the only ones who have managed their countries badly.”

“PJL1967 you are right we do need millions of new homes. some might not like it that our population will soon hit 70 million plus,but the fact is it is going to happen and we need to plan for it now”

“We could of course renationalise the railways and the utility companies to create jobs, stimulate the economy, make people happier and improve quality of life. It would also reduce the welfare bill, rail fares and gas/electricity prices AND help to narrow the ever expanding gap between the rich and poor, both in terms of finances and life expectancy.

But, even though the much needed growth in the economy could then be used to finance the building of millions of homes to meet the housing crisis (which in-turn creates even more jobs...), I fear it's unlikely to happen anytime soon - unless Labour grow a pair, be bold and do what's needed for the benefit of society, rather than just obediently serving the interests of big business and the failed experiment that was free-market neo-liberalism!

I live in hope but I would be holding my breath.”

“sochat well it's true we live in a global economy. You might say we're all in it together all 7 billion plus of us.”

“There's a global recession, and the Welsh economy isn't insulated in any way from what's happening in the rest of the world. We've been hit pretty hard"
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Jeff Cuthbert

Deputy skills minister”

“Working
"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest."
"The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors."
"The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." - Buckminster Fuller

The trouble is that the bloated miserable over-rich don't want people relaxing.
The mega-plutocrats can't relax because they're too busy trying to own everything so, they want us to suffer with them.
Also, who lick their backsides if all of us realised that they are superfluous?”

“The notion of us ever having full employment is totally outdated, it only ever existed for a short while when it was uncommon for married women to work. 2 million plus unemployed get use to it”

“siarad2 can you tell us who these companies are and what wage they were offering for what job title please, Im sure you can do that as you saw the program ?”

“@weslangdon
Retail jobs! is that the best they can do, then our education system is a disgrace letting scholars down.
Only today on TV a company complained it was 30 employees short & a couple of days ago another company said it could double in size only, likewise, it couldn't find employees.
Week after week this complaint goes on.
People want life to be too easy so we don't have the scientists, engineers & technicians industry needs.
Go to night school 4 nights of the week for 10 years as did I, this was because I left school at 15 years of age but now people stay on to 17, soon to be 18, so just what are they learning.
Retail can't keep this country running as, similar to, the law of entropy means money will dissipate unless energy from elsewhere enters to keep it running such as farming or manufacturing.”

“immigrant1 they cant, its not a question af labelling us as lazy, employers are employing foreign workers through agencies, in some cases laying off British workers to do so, they do this because they have no responsibility to them, that responsibility lies with the agency, they are also paid a lower wage so the employer makes more money.
British workers need proper full time jobs, we are not here to make a quick buck for a year or so, we have mortgages families etc and employers are putting us at an unfair disadvantage.
How can there be enough jobs for everyone when the amount of people coming here is on the scale it is. Other countries (those not sold out to Europe) protect their workforces and way of life, just like everyone that wants to come here can, I can`t go to the countries that I would like to go to because they only accept people for jobs that need to be covered (points based), nobody thinks what they are doing is wrong so why is it here ?”