tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post3186278129259600694..comments2024-03-26T07:51:43.186+00:00Comments on Mabinogogiblog: No to Workfare, yes to a Green Wage SubsidyDocRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-65199640454879928502010-11-12T11:06:26.312+00:002010-11-12T11:06:26.312+00:00Musgrave:
"Say a street cleaner gets made red...Musgrave:<br />"Say a street cleaner gets made redundant, cannot find another job, so he is unemployed so long he has to do the unpaid work thing. And he gets told to go sweep the street. There's something wrong there, no?<br /><br />Well what’s wrong there?"<br /><br />What's wrong there, Musgrave, is that a person who was being paid to do a job ends up with not being paid to do the same job. <br /><br />I sit here racking my brains, and cannot find an easier way to express the concept, but do come back if you think there is another angle to it.<br /><br />Also, if you had read my post and links with an open mind, you would see that I have a very positive evaluation to good work.<br /><br />Thanks for commenting.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-43784201134170198862010-11-12T00:27:44.316+00:002010-11-12T00:27:44.316+00:00-Musgrave-
Your theories may be excellent and pos...-Musgrave-<br /><br />Your theories may be excellent and possibly work in practice but to commence your thesis with "any old fool" and include "But I don’t expect Britain’s political left to rejoice or in any way appreciate someone getting a job." is rather very silly and probably turns people off reading what may or may not be an interesting comment.<br />It is one thing to have a good policy or idea - it is another to sell it, whether you be an old fool or not.robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-54988136660846863472010-11-11T18:41:02.720+00:002010-11-11T18:41:02.720+00:00Workfare is a complicated subject. Any old fool ca...Workfare is a complicated subject. Any old fool can ask awkward questions. Giving answers is the difficult bit. I’ll answer just one of the above questions. The author asks “And a fourth thing. Say a street cleaner gets made redundant, cannot find another job, so he is unemployed so long he has to do the unpaid work thing. And he gets told to go sweep the street. There's something wrong there, no?<br /><br />Well what’s wrong there? Someone was unemployed, and then they get a job in their normal trade or profession. That is better than being unemployed, is it not? GDP goes up, does it not? But I don’t expect Britain’s political left to rejoice or in any way appreciate someone getting a job. <br /><br />As to the possibility that the workfare street sweeper might get a lower hourly rate than existing street sweepers, this problem can be solved by having the workfare streetsweeper work a number of hours a week such that the hourly rate equals that of normal street sweepers.<br /><br />But that was an easy question to answer. I answer some far more cerebral questions relating to workfare in a paper here: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19094/<br /><br />I actually deal with the above anomaly, namely some street sweepers being workfare and others not, in this paper.Ralph Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443857766263185665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-40718498040426266552010-11-08T13:02:38.616+00:002010-11-08T13:02:38.616+00:00My goodness! First you withdraw from the general e...My goodness! First you withdraw from the general election to assist the Libdems whose leader, several months previously, advised "savage cuts". And then you lend credibility to the Tories' attack on the welfare state through participation in a bogus 'consultation'.<br />What next... helping the BNP with their repatriation policy?!howard ex-gpnsnoreply@blogger.com