uk benefit system needs to change, esp disability !!?
The benefit system is a total disgrace and needs to change. Don't get me wrong , i do believe that people who cant work or find work should be helped but they get loads. Both me and my husband work full time , have a mortgage to pay, council tax, school meals, childcare, etc .my friends both don't work and never had, they have 3 children, there youngest is 3, who's disabled , shes lovely, she has the opposite of diabetes but shes a normal 3 year old other than that. anyhow, now they receive more than £500 a week in benefits, got a free car and only has to pay for petrol, they've just been given a new house, 5 bed-roomed. rent £750 a month with a 2 grand deposit. they didn't have to pay any of it. they get a new fridge , cooker of there choice a year and a free holiday every year.It really annoys me how they get everything handed to them on a plate when they dont need all of it. one of them should be made to work, i said that to them but there response, why should i work for less? surely the government should cut down on this? no wonder the county is in recession. make one of them work or loose their benefits? if cant find a job , do voluntary . is it just me whos annoyed by this? We work so hard and my kids no the value of hard work and earning money, but some people have it far to easy. what do you think?
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In this day and age benefit breeders "earn" as much as teachers and policemen and what's worse is that they're creating offspring which puts a disproportionately heavy burden on all the public services.
People raised in the benefit environment are more likely to become alcoholics, druggies, burglars, car thieves or future benefit breeders than is the case with the general population.
No it's not just you. lt winds everybody up, apart from the benefit breeders themselves and silly naive idiots like Tony Benn
BTW l dunno why the old grumpy puts professional sroungers in speech marks .. that's exactly what they are!
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I agree that it's unfair for people who work hard to have a poorer quality of life than those who do not work. Obviously those who really cannot work should be supported, as should those who are trying to find work, or trying to get themselves a better education etc. I do think it is wrong, however, that people are allowed to spend the rest of their lives on disability benefits for having a bad back, especially when there are people out there paralysed from the neck down who want to work, and find a way to. I think it's wrong that those who could work but don't can sometimes get better housing and more comfortable lifestyles than those who do.
Unfortunately, I often think I am in the minority - we live in a country where the majority of people think that being born entitles them to an easy life on a plate (courtesy of the rest of us, it would appear), and while these people continue to vote for politicians who offer them everything on a plate, the hard-workers in this country will increasingly wonder why they bother, while the next generation decides not to bother at all.
They wont be claiming it much longer as benefits and Housing Benefit have been capped.
l don't know how they get that much as the benefits for disability aren't a lot, certainly not a cooker/fridge and free holiday a year. They wouldn't get all the rent paid on it as they don't need a five bed roomed house. How do you know all this, if they told you then l think they are telling a few porkies.
l am disabled but i don't get much, they give it me and then take it off me in other ways, it's not easy to get DLA now, you have to be quite seriously disabled to get anything, perhaps he is working and not telling anyone.
I think KIT FANG has just about got it right. Only today I read that a certain female has spent her entire life, since the age of 16 years, producing children like a production line. Her comment was " For me and many of my friends at School, it was the only way out and a few of us took it. What was the point of getting a crummy job on a minimum wage"
I think that about sums up the attitude of these people who have become "professional scroungers"
Needless to say, that she and her children have all the comforts that the benefit system offers at the expense of the hard pressed Taxpayers.
When people, decide for their own selfish reasons and lack of responsibility, to use children as a reason to scrounge, than we know we have failed to educate these from the start.
I have paid hundreds of thousands in tax and still paying. The bankers have ripped off billions - they still get huge bonuses for failure. politicians have ripped us off and now want a 32% pay rise - so I say - start with the aforesaid, stop their greed and fiddling then when that is sorted have a look at the ordinary person claiming benefits.