VC, I simply cannot understand where you are coming from with some of your views. The abolishment of the minimum wage, for instance, is not going to help anyone bar those who want to abuse workers who are seen as a factor of production. In fact, I see no reason to even discuss such positions as I find them to be little more than reproduction of Chicago school points of views, which rational people have long seen as being scams which make the business community happy.

In America you have waiters earning 2 dollars 15 an hour as a basic wage, you have a minimum wage of something around 7 dollars an hour. Do you know how little that is? Why should you rely on the customer to tip? Why should you be earning a minimum wage half that of the UK? It is pure corporate greed and it doesn't take much for McDonald's to simply clean its act up and pay a fair wage. The catering industry is an exploitation industry and likewise, should be cleaned up. Let them go out of business. If you cannot pay the worker a wage without relying on my charity, then you deserve to go broke. You shouldn't have a business. You are a failed business.

In terms of a welfare state, I am quite in the middle. I have been in employment since the age of 14, I know the value of work and have always been in work. My first working wage almost 2 decades ago was more than double what an American waitress will recieve as a basic payment minus tips. I believe in the value of labour. That means paying the worker to do a job. It means closing your borders and it means paying the person who cleans your toilet a fair wage. He deserves it, and so do you, and so do I. Only open the borders for skilled jobs that local people just cannot do.

In the West, I think people have on the whole been sold out. My friend was talking about whenever he goes home to Scotland the taxi drivers are all Polish. There is a reason for that, it is because unchecked access to a labour market increases competition and drives down wages. I would quite like to be a taxi driver, but why would you do it for peanuts, just to make the owners happy? The dilution of markets is a problem and the lack of a meaningful minimum wage is a huge factor.

I don't think British people have any particular aversion to working for Scotish taxi firms. However, if wages are lower it would make a lot more sense to overseas workers who will happily work for less. I think it all leads to a serious problem. You could just blame the poor natives who will never do a days work, but at the same time, I think American and British societies have been seriously harmed by the policies set from above. They have clearly failed and I would like the opposite of much of what you argue.

People don't ask to be outsourced, they don't ask for borders to be unchecked, on the whole I don't think it is fair to blame most people who are struggling. I think Britain and America have been sold a Friedman based lie and the latest from Britain is that under 25's should not recieve benefits and that the mail service be privatised. I think the country has been sold out and viewpoints like yours are a problem.