Welfare reform re-repeating

To Albert Einstein, an insane person was someone who repeated the same course of action over and over again while expecting a different result each time. He would have found it easy to spot the trait in the British politicians who have attempted to change the benefits system over the past thirty years. As we continue into the recession, the thousands of people who have lost their jobs and claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance (the count is now 1,459,840) are moving into a system that the Government claims will help them find work but will actually fail to do so. This means that many of them are at risk of moving from a short-term, perfectly reasonable need for help in a downturn to long-term dependency on the state. This is what happened in the recessions of 1980s and early 1990s. It ruined the lives of millions of people.