Sacking people

[IANTO]

Not on topic but why are we as a nation/world obsessed with replacing human staff with computers/robots?surely with an ever increasing population we can't afford to pay more than half the country to sit at home watching daytime tv?I'm not against progress but we can't pay for everyone to go and do a degree in media studies etc and then pay them to sit there doing nothing?

Just as off topic, can someone explain the logic in increasing the retirement age, which means employers have to continue employing people past their prime, and with less output, while there are thousands of school-leavers and under 25 unemployed.

World War 1 and World War 2, delayed the problem. God tried to redeem the balance with AIDS, but man is too clever for his own good.

For how long can we afford to fund an older and older population (A doctor last week, told me there was no reason why I could live to a Hundred, and when I told him I did wish to live to 85, by which time my parents and ancestors suffered from Dementia, he as taken aback. He was even more disturbed, when I told him I had a bottle of Strychnine inherited from my father for personal use, when the time came.)

Can anyone tell me, why it is in UK PLC's interested to fund drugs for terminally ill Cancer Patients which will only prolong their live for weeks, months or a few years at the most.

Non Productive, and a Drain on Resources.

Perhaps a fair way of assessing who qualifies and who does not would be to limit expenditure on an individual, to what they have contributed in taxes over the years (indexed linked of course). It would require refining, for those who actively sought work, and failed to secure employment, but would soon sort out the "professional" unemployed.

Traits are inherited, and are genetic. Stop treating those who are "inherently" lazy, and they would die out, and stop being a drain on those who pay Taxes.

With an increasingly older population, we cannot afford indefinitely to fund all and sundry.

A matter of time, before a UK Dictator decides on this course.

It cannot be a democratically elected leader, as none of them would to commit political suicide, when more and more of their voters, will be 65 or older.

 

[JP1]

This whole thread has it all. It starts with enough material for a normal young reader to question why it would ever be right to consider a career in agriculture and reaches new heights with the last post. thank goodness there was some positive balance in the BBC Harvest 2013 documentary

 

[Hilly]

Just as off topic, can someone explain the logic in increasing the retirement age, which means employers have to continue employing people past their prime, and with less output, while there are thousands of school-leavers and under 25 unemployed.

World War 1 and World War 2, delayed the problem. God tried to redeem the balance with AIDS, but man is too clever for his own good.

For how long can we afford to fund an older and older population (A doctor last week, told me there was no reason why I could live to a Hundred, and when I told him I did wish to live to 85, by which time my parents and ancestors suffered from Dementia, he as taken aback. He was even more disturbed, when I told him I had a bottle of Strychnine inherited from my father for personal use, when the time came.)

Can anyone tell me, why it is in UK PLC's interested to fund drugs for terminally ill Cancer Patients which will only prolong their live for weeks, months or a few years at the most.

Non Productive, and a Drain on Resources.

Perhaps a fair way of assessing who qualifies and who does not would be to limit expenditure on an individual, to what they have contributed in taxes over the years (indexed linked of course). It would require refining, for those who actively sought work, and failed to secure employment, but would soon sort out the "professional" unemployed.

Traits are inherited, and are genetic. Stop treating those who are "inherently" lazy, and they would die out, and stop being a drain on those who pay Taxes.

With an increasingly older population, we cannot afford indefinitely to fund all and sundry.

A matter of time, before a UK Dictator decides on this course.

It cannot be a democratically elected leader, as none of them would to commit political suicide, when more and more of their voters, will be 65 or older.

As akward as it is, its a subject that will need addressing in the near future, no current political party/person will have the balls to do it though and we will rumble on as we are, I recently put my dog to sleep I regarded him as lucky and think I will not be so luky when my time comes.

 

[roscoe erf]

the brits were the ones with the brains, all the soviets had was sheer numbers

No don't totally agree the Russians had guts and determination they stopped the Germans at stalingrad which up to now the Germans had pretty well meet with no real resistance I know the Germans cocked up with supplies and the weather turned but still don't right them off

 

[brynseiri]

You say it was a good result Ianto, the employer sacked, for want of another word, the man who had performed his duties as a husband for him, because he probably couldn't perform in bed, and the same boss, showed himself to be even more of a pussy by concocting some farce redundancy with standard terms to get rid of him. And the woman was too ashamed to accept that she was, or could still be a bed hopping lady, and through some "I still feel something between us" shyte persuaded the employee to accept those terms- what a bunch of lovely people, proper quality employers. And a couple who have whole heartedly stood by the vows made when they entered marriage. The three of them deserve each other, scum. The boss should have had it out with him over the shagging of his wife, and the lad out of shame should have handed in his notice. And she should have accepted her unfaithful actions as being mortally wrong, instead of brushing it under the carpet.