tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post3824170635526983109..comments2024-03-20T09:14:28.349+00:00Comments on The Moose: Women on the dole.Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-80286397903975241482011-11-21T14:47:34.452+00:002011-11-21T14:47:34.452+00:00True - I keep going back to that ideal world, but ...True - I keep going back to that ideal world, but I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime.<br /><br />Self publicise away. At least you're not selling viagra or penis extensions.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-10800621697690762732011-11-21T14:03:42.696+00:002011-11-21T14:03:42.696+00:00In an ideal world, maybe, but I think all hope of ...In an ideal world, maybe, but I think all hope of that one faded with joint mortgages and the abolition of MIRAS.<br /><br />The Spouse and I were, perhaps, among the last generation to be able to afford a mortgage on one salary - this meant our children had a full-time mother looking after them at home until they were settled in school; aside from the universal child benefit, the state was hardly involved at all.<br /><br />Now, of course, joint mortgages have pushed up house prices and vast numbers of mothers who can't afford or are afraid to give up work are laying their meagre earnings before the Tax Credit juggernaut - an unwieldy machine employed by the state to take with one hand and give back with the other in a perpetual Red Queen's race.<br /><br />Apologies for the rant - as you can probably tell, it's a subject I feel strongly about. If you'll forgive the blatant self-publicising, there's more at:<br />http://newgatenews.blogspot.com/2011/09/question-of-childcare.htmlMacheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-54370738962319248382011-11-21T13:28:39.293+00:002011-11-21T13:28:39.293+00:00Or..
Women (and men) could pay for their own chil...Or..<br /><br />Women (and men) could pay for their own children during the early years. And the rest.Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-55631258533042196932011-11-21T12:51:00.688+00:002011-11-21T12:51:00.688+00:00Michelle used to work [...] until she lost her own...<i>Michelle used to work [...] until she lost her own job six months ago.<br /><br />She is a single mother whose youngest son is five years old.</i><br /><br />So for years, she's been filling a public sector post while her children were in state-subsidised daycare; now they are all in full-time education and no longer need constant attention, she has no job and is being paid to sit at home alone.<br /><br />The childcare industry was a by-product of Labour's employment policies; I wonder if any government will now have the courage to suggest that we should cut out the middleman (or, more usually, -woman) and pay the subsidies directly to mothers to bring up their own children in the early years.<br /><br />Take the mothers of under-5's out of the local employment equation and Michelle might stand a better chance of finding a job.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.com