Youth Unemployment

I'm glad to surmise that media coverage on youth unemployment has been plenty. I fear that inevitably though, like all news cycles, something else scandalous will occur, causing this issue to be consigned to the bin (or at least recycling bin I hope). However, unless someone can tell me otherwise, I don't see the government doing much about it except for forcing us into unpaid employment with big chains stacking shelves. lest they cut us off from the whole £7 a day they give us (a one day travelcard for zones 1-2 is £8 a day).

• Are they simply happy to cut jobs therefore leaving the nation's lives in the hands of the free market? 
• The same free market that caused millions to suffer in the first place? 
• Is it a wonder why so many simply hope to win the lottery? 
• Is it laziness like the Conservatives maybe think it is or is it that having a pot of money is the only chance normal people have to get on in life? 

We are taught that money is all that matters so of course we would crave the thing that we do not have. Not only that but we live in Great Britain, a developed nation, and yet we have to either a) a lot of money or b) a lot of debt, just to access the most basic things such as education and housing.

We must not lose sight of the fact that the young are important, not limited to the following reasons;
Who else is going to pay for the baby boomers' pensions?!
In an increasingly globalised world, if the young are unable to compete with the youth of other nations, Britain's economy will die a rapid death.
In the Arab world, 50% are under 18, with their burgeoning democracies hopefully on the horizon, this is a region with massive potential, so this is another group we will have to compete with and/or work with.

While many will have blamed the England riots on 'pure criminality' it would be absurd to deny that the youth are disenfranchised. If something is not done is it undeniable that this generation has the potential to cause even worse havoc than previously seen. Or if you really are economically unconvinced, perhaps this will convince you; if nothing is done, the youth will achieve absolutely nothing, thereby burdening the welfare system and our economy will never reach the potential that the free market always promised.

See http://musingsfromaneet.blogspot.com/ and http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/ for solutions and more rants :)