first, (like I said) I base all the information on what I read, especially on what the former ministry of finance accountant general (2003-2007) said in a lecture he gave about a week ago.
(I can explain why I trust him).
hopefully I understood well what he explained and the blame falls on him if there's any false information
Having had a look at your links I would assume you are one of these activists and I cannot condone or condemn your outlook, taking over an empty building is also illegal in my country and you would be removed smartly
no, unfortunately I live far from where the center of big things happen.
I was born in Tel Aviv and have lived there in the southern side, today I live in a town in north Israel.
I guess if I was closer I would have take a bigger part in the protest. I still might do something in the future.
no complaint on the police at all, they are doing their job. sometimes few people try to resist the evacuation and get arrested, but most people leave the building quitely.
can I ask what skills you have achieved that should place you in regular work ?
you mean educational? I don't have college or university degree. I'm not there yet.
I must say that there are plenty of people with BA and MA who struggle to find a job or finish the month without a minus (there's a special section in one of the news websites dedicated to this kind of stories).
the situation in Israel is a bit different because most of people being sent to the army after highschool and spent a few years there. after they release, not everyone can rely on their parents to pay the tuition.
the ones who study usually work in 1-3 odd jobs at the same time, but they can't handle the rent.. so it's the same problem again.
I can feel your frustration and as the man said “There has to be a better way” perhaps more uprisings?? only joking
what usually pisses me off regard to the protests is the masses of people who walk blindly after the goverment in a suit of patriotism and unliberalism; it affects me too.
I tried to translate a saying by Adam Smith from Hebrew (I didn't find it in English):
If you let all the players to compete freely without the government to intervene - you will get minimum poverty and maximum welfare, provided that all players are equal in their power.
And if they do not equal it would make a maximum poverty and minimum welfare.
that's what happens here, the players are not equal.
the government encourage this to happen with several ways:
1. by laws. they dismiss laws that should limit the market concentration and encourage equality.
2. by policy. if for example the government decided to privatize lands. instead of selling small land plots they sell several compounds together (that only rich people can afford buying).
so basically it's an oligarchy.
in my country which embraced the “Market” ideology in 1984 this certainly was not the case, we have seen our best manufactures move overseas to take advantage of the cheap labour (as I mentioned in my previous post) Now our unemployment is approx 5% and this is made up of those leaving school with no work qualifications, those that have no intention of ever working and a few genuine cases of those that are actively looking for work but without success
I'm not fully understand, you mean that even though the manufactures left to China there are still enough jobs for everyone?
You cannot limit the Market or stop one company buying out another company unless you introduce state control also the method you are advocating will not lower prices every one wants to make a profit but the ability to produce on a large scale (only available to large companies) gives the opportunity to lower prices
Yes but as I said they move to countries where there is cheap labour, would you work for $1 per Day? This labour cheap country is China at the moment so no local jobs are created. Now if you regulate the market by state control you will kill it.
why it will kill it?
I think that if instead of 3 companies in each sector there will be 10 - then the price competition between them should turn the prices lower.
you can't let one company to controll 33% of the entire sector. and you won't kill the company if you force them to sell some of what they have to others.
example:
if one company holds 50 supermarkets - force them to sell 30 supermarkets to other people. if they refuse to sell - impose high taxes on them until it won't be profitable.
it's impposible to concentrate so much power in one place, there should be a limit. let's say (just for example) that each company can reach to maximum of 10% of each sector market.
*(the tycoons here don't hold just one sector or two - they hold dozens of different companies from diffrent sectors).
you need to break the monopolies.
World unemployment figure taken from www
NZ 6.6
Aussie 4.9
Israel 5.8
UK 7.6
USA 9.2
China 4.1
4.1 from China it's a lot
I wrote in one of my previous posts here that the unemployment rate in Israel is 5.7% (wiki missed a bit :grin
. that's what the government trying to emphasis in the media.
this is the basic unemployment rate (I hope it's the same term in English).
but in addition to that, the accountant general mentioned that the number of workplaces in Israel is 53.5% of the working-age population.
it's something related to what he refered as "depth of unemployment".
If I understand well (and I'm not sure I do) the other 46.5% of the working-age population work in odd or part time jobs or rely on all kinds of other allowances (not dole).