Families too large (From York Press)

Families too large

9:47am Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

IN SPITE of there being between 24 and 66 unemployed people for every retail vacancy, and only a one-in-44 chance of getting an office job in most areas, we persist with encouraging people to have large families through the welfare system.

I feel sorry for the children. There will be no jobs for millions more of them.

One machine had taken the jobs of three council workers who you paid council tax to.

The country is sitting on a time-bomb if radical action is not taken soon.

In the blink of an historical eye, these will become of pensionable age, needing health treatment and care.

We are up against unrelenting economic pressure from the East. For example, China’s economy is growing equivalent to the whole of Greece’s every three months.

Paul Costello, Whiteoak Avenue, Easingwold.