Whingeing and Whining About Care

Parents looking after their grown-up disabled offspring will be among the parasites targeted by the Government's benefit cap, which is intended to make work pay. Hard-working families who work hard and put their taxes in offshore accounts should not have to march off in the morning surrounded by the closed blinds of people who are having a nice relaxing time coping with the commercial requirements of a disabled adult. "The ridiculous thing is that the cap came in to incentivise people to go to work," wheedled one indignant scrounger, "but I cannot go to work because I am looking after my son full-time, and I am, in the process, saving the government money." This would, of course, be true if the Government had much interest in spending money on looking after the disabled, as opposed to looking after the likes of Serco and Southern Cross. In fact, the cap will be an important component of the economic recovery: house prices will rise as social cleansing takes effect, and profits will rise as disability consumers flock to private care homes.