Counter Productive

I have thought and mentioned before now certain, as I perceive, crazy ideas.
Firstly, increasing retirement age, great idea? I don't think so, and never did. The government obviously thought it was a great Tax benefit to them/the country. But all this has done has reduced the jobs available to our children leaving school, so, what did or do the government do to counter this, they increase the school leaving age to 18.
There again, not a good move. Many children who are considered as disruptive are, IMO, only disruptive because they are not particuarly 'academic' and want/need more practical skills. So to enforce these children to stay at school until they are 18 is just increasing the problem.What we should be doing is bringing back industry to this country, and in doing so we would be bringing back skilled tradesmen/women and therefore bringing value back to our workforce and country.
It seems these days that our nation is too proud to do the more 'menial' tasks, and far easier and simpler to 'farm out' these jobs.
As more and more work is farmed out by the BIG companies, service seems to go down, complaints rise about customer service, as in, we do not appear to get the service and we should, yet the cost of telephone, insurance etc etc continues to rise, yet the companies supplying these services are continually sourcing cheaper options, predominantly by outsourcing to places like India. Their (ie: BT) profits grow, our service goes down, but our costs go up?
Also council tax, it rises every year, and more than the rate of inflation! yet, we are expected to 'sort' our own rubbish, wheel our wheelie bins to a convenient location for collection, and expected to dump our recyclable rubbish ourselves! Ok, I have no problem doing this, but should it not be our choice?
Furthermore, do we really need so much packaging, what happend to the good old brown paper bag, so much easier to recycle than plastic.
The way I see it is, the government encourage so much packaging in order to TAX it/us, so the end result is bigger revenue for the government. It is all a government scam. As is, global warming, yes, these severe weather conditions are supposedly to do with global warming, yet, it's been approximately 120 since the last worst winter, so did global warming exist then, probably, but then there were NO cars around! so who or what was contributing then?