Well since your comments were all nice, here's another one a bit longer than before, I tried to incorporate some historical facts into this one and plagiarized a bit of an article by Owen Jones, who I quite enjoy reading, this is just a draft so any criticisms are welcome before I redo it

Tough on Poverty, Tough on the Causes of Poverty
Our Glorious Leader, PM David Cameron, has vowed to tackle the tough economic situation by being; “tough on Poverty; tough on the Causes of Poverty”, we applaud these words, but what exactly do they mean?
As any competent (private) health professional will tell you, “it's no use treating the symptoms, without addressing the root cause” of a disease.
In our case; poverty, the huge trade deficit, unemployment, and stagnant economic growth are among the serious symptoms manifest in our “body politic”.
We could throw money at these problems, invest in developing infrastructure, introduce progressive taxes on inflated salaries, but these would be mere stop gaps prolonging the inevitable suffering of our economy and avoiding the ever-present cause of poverty, plus why should hard working businessmen or entrepreneurs pay for the poor?
No, first we must address the root of the problem, the main cause that has given rise to and sustained poverty, swallowed the profits of the merchant classes and plagued every country over the course of history.
The fundamental cause, the aggravating factor in this poverty I speak of, the root of our economic difficulty, the cause of recession and all the shortcomings of the free market is, POOR PEOPLE!
Improving on the Past
Various responses to this problem have been developed over the years, from ancient China, India and the Near East we have perhaps the oldest traditions of dealing with poor people, primitive abandoned cultures where it seems the poor were glorified and personal wealth shunned. In the Judeo-Christian tradition we have the prominent concepts of Charity, likewise in the Islamic tradition emphasis is given to feeding the poor an endless stream of handouts.
“The Poor are Always With You”, said a zealous and charitably minded young Jew, we seek to improve on that, we are far more optimistic!
We can eradicate the Poor completely!
Modern Enlightenment
Our own forebears in Medieval and post-Feudal England had the fantastic idea of putting the poor to work, attempting to instil a proportion of pride in their existence, for they knew well that: “the Devil makes work for Idle hands”.
In the early 17th century the Workhouse was instituted to provide an alternative to lingering in poverty, begging for alms, thieving, prostitution and general mendicancy so prevalent in Europe at that time, the policy to isolate and confine those who could not or would not produce whether through degeneracy or deformity, saved the European economy from complete disaster at the time, and "normality" in terms of economic productivity attempted to reconstitute itself, minus much of the Poor's negative influence.
The 18th century brought greater advance still for the prosperity of England, between 1782 and 1794 Liverpool's workhouse accommodated 900–1200 indigent men, women and children.
“These workhouses were established, and mainly conducted, with a view to deriving profit from the labour of the residents.... The workhouse was in truth at that time a kind of manufactory, carried on at the risk and cost of the poor”. 1854 George Nicholls
With the “New Poor Law 1834” and “Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order 1844”, reformatory, character building workhouses became compulsory for able bodied idlers, unfortunately it was still very costly to house so many poor and outdoor relief remained, now we can go further!
In the late 19th century Arnold White a great British Statesman, who's expertise would be welcome in the current political climate – argued that only one in five jobless Britons were ‘genuinely unemployed’. Another 40 per cent were simply ‘feckless and incapable’, while the remaining 40 per cent were wholly degenerate.
With the decline in living standards ongoing surely it won't be long until we realise a radical approach to poverty is required, we cannot fail where our forefathers have failed before, lessons should be taken from the Continental approach to poverty circa 1940 and a solution found by Ian Duncan Smith to eradicate the Poor's nefarious influence on the economy forever.