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New Unelected Pensions Minister Ros Altmann Wants Us To Work Till We Drop
by johnny void
David Cameron has rewarded former banker Ros Altmann for the report she wrote calling on us all to work longer by making her Minister for Pensions despite her never having never won an election in her pampered life.
Altmann, who said last year that “Encouraging and enabling those who want to work longer is an idea whose time has come”, will join comedy toff and another former banker Lord Fraud at the DWP where he will remain in his role as unelected Minister for Welfare Reform. That’s democracy yah.
Altmann is obessed with making people us work longer, even claiming it will be good for our health. She should fit right in at the DWP where forced work makes you free and poverty is good for you. In her report last year, commissioned by the DWP, Altmann even endorsed unpaid workfare style schemes for older workers, suggesting it was unfair that only the young are forced to work for no pay.
According to Altmann those who retire too soon will miss out on the “positive feelings that derive from work”. You can tell she’s never had a real job. Altmann assumes because posh people might benefit from a few hours well paid work when they are over pension age that means the rest of us want to be sweeping the streets or working in supermarkets into our seventies. She also says that if we all work longer then we can keep out the immigrants, as if building companies are all going to start recruiting brickies from pensioner’s night at the local Bingo.
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat
http://philosophers-stone.co.uk
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2015/05/new-unelected-pensions-minister-ros-altmann-wants-us-to-work-till-we-drop/
