How cynical. I used to work for a company here (the UK) that did IT
training for places like the Manchester Housing Authority (or whatever it's
called...) and I asked this guy, why did you build all those horrible tower
blocks (anyone who hasn't seen it, it looks like they hired a Soviet
apartment architect.
He said, "the more people we got in the least space... the more funding we
got."
Take Care,
Mark (expat American in Oswaldtwistle)
At 00:06 02/10/2003 +0100, Tony wrote:
>The reason _I_ say that is that in the UK, 'unemployed' is used to mean
>'unemployed and claiming benefit'. The government fiddle the unemployment
>figures by preventing people from claiming benefits for more than 6
>months or so. Thus they can claim few people are unemployed, even if a
>rather larger number don't actually have jobs.
>
>In any case, I am not unemployed. I do plenty of jobs (fixing old
>computers, old cameras, building hackish toys, etc). Pity I don't get
>paid for doing them, but...
>
>-tony
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