The manufacture of everything is something we need to look at when we get into power.including solar panels. Too much stuff is made the wrong way, or packed with material that cannot be recycled, and that's just for starters.
As for ' screwing the poor' - well, we do advocate microcredit loans , government grants, a living wage, not the minimum that the present bunch think we all need to get by on.
in actual fact, we also want jobs to be shared more. I think ( this is me talking , not the Green Manifesto, BTW) that work should be linked to welfare. like, if you are ablebodied, then before you go sign on for your dole money, you have got to show that you did X number of hours on the Community Welfare Sceme. If you are unemployed, not suffering from any handicaps, and you want benefits, then what's wrong with going out with a properly supervised team and doing a bit of street cleaning , or clearing derelict ground? Or cleaning the windows and doing a bit of gardening flower beds of the local park? I am not saying we use the unemployed to go in and be a strikebreaking task force, or get used as cheap labour, but somehow, we have got to stop people slobbing about all day and badmouthing people like me who pay for their beer and fags.
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Date: 30/5/10 20:03 (UTC)As for ' screwing the poor' - well, we do advocate microcredit loans , government grants, a living wage, not the minimum that the present bunch think we all need to get by on.
in actual fact, we also want jobs to be shared more.
I think ( this is me talking , not the Green Manifesto, BTW) that work should be linked to welfare. like, if you are ablebodied, then before you go sign on for your dole money, you have got to show that you did X number of hours on the Community Welfare Sceme. If you are unemployed, not suffering from any handicaps, and you want benefits, then what's wrong with going out with a properly supervised team and doing a bit of street cleaning , or clearing derelict ground? Or cleaning the windows and doing a bit of gardening flower beds of the local park? I am not saying we use the unemployed to go in and be a strikebreaking task force, or get used as cheap labour, but somehow, we have got to stop people slobbing about all day and badmouthing people like me who pay for their beer and fags.