How the dependency culture is here to stay - precisely because the Coalition says so

The benefits cap the government proposes is all in the news at the moment.  Left Foot Forward uncovers six myths you might be interested in finding out more about here.

Meanwhile, if the meme really is how we all need to work together to get the country out of the massive mess recent economic and political histories have engendered, why isn't the government also proposing a salary cap?  Why, in fact, every time it proposes a new policy, does it prefer to further impoverish the already impoverished in society?  Why doesn't it look to other methods of resourcing the country's wealth?

Why is it all so damnably one-sided?

A quotation attributed to Ralph Nader came my way this morning which made me think that perhaps the answer is to be found somewhere here.  It goes as follows:

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." — Ralph Nader #business #leadership

As far as I can see, Cameron & Co understand quite the contrary.  And it's absolutely clear that they don't want to remove the dependency culture at all.

Instead, what they really want to do is transfer our sense of dependency from the state to their private sector buddies.

Not change us at all, then - just rearrange the furniture for the benefit of their deep-pocketed sponsors and bosom business pals.

Leadership?  You gotta be joking.  The Coalition know as much about the true tenets of leadership as did the Pied Piper of Hamelin.  They don't want to amplify our initiative - they just want our docile consumer complicity.

And that's a really long way from encouraging independence of action.