Whether it's Michael Gove blaming users of food banks for 'not managing their finances', or Iain Duncan Smith arguing that those on benefits have failed to take 'responsibility' for their lives, the rhetoric is the same.
Benefits have failed to keep pace with the make-up and expectations of today's workforce, according to a study by Cass Business School and commissioned by income protection specialists Unum.
But, since the WWII era, these benefits have failed to keep up with the increasing cost of higher education.
The small sugar elite in the Northeast has increased its power and protected itself against market instability by diversifying its activity, while the benefits have failed to trickle down to the poorest in the sugarcane zone in the Northeast coast.
Besides hard RSA tokens that cost $75 a piece, can break, get lost, be stolen, and run out of battery life, anti-virus software, for all their perceived benefits, have failed miserably.
A BBC investigation suggests the government's controversial changes to housing benefit have failed to achieve one of the main aims of the policy.
Claire Kober, leader of Haringey council, said: "This research shows that the benefit cap has failed in its main objectives.
The zealous ramping up of benefit sanctions has failed to starve people into work, but succeeded in swelling food bank queues to the point of a national shame.
And when you think about it from an ethical point of view, you can see why taking a patient off a treatment with a scientifically underpinned, known set of costs and benefits before it has failed, to put them on to a new unproven treatment – no matter how promising – would be questionable.
For years France has offered its people a Swedish-style social model of services, benefits and protection, but has failed to create enough wealth to pay for it.Today France continues to behave as if it enjoyed Sweden's or Germany's public finances, when in truth they are closer to those of Spain.
