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haha, just heard a reporter summarising the new benefit cuts
no housing benefit for the under 25s, that will make lots of babies and small children homeless, excellent stuff, they can set up shanty towns on the edge of cities near to the local tip so that the older kids can scavange for scrap metal to sell for food, because no housing benefit means they wonlt qualify for free school meals, excellent, love this country me.
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So we continue to let 18 year old girls get pregnant, refuse to say who the father is, give them a council flat, let them live off benefits (including housing benefit), and fund them and their child for the next 18 years or more.
Sounds like a recipe for bankruptsy in any country.
Of I forgot we are bankrupt.
Sounds like a recipe for bankruptsy in any country.
Of I forgot we are bankrupt.
Trouble is we have gone from a situation where benefits were a "safety net" for people without a job or money....to a situation where many people make "lifestyle" choices about claiming benefits.
They chose to live their life in a way that takes advantage of the benefit system but choosing never to take a job, have lots of children, be a single mother or father and so on.
I have worked all my life and have now retired. I have bought my house and worked hard to pay off the mortgate.
Just down my road are a couple of council houses (same style and size as mine) which were bought off the builders by the council about 40 years ago when the builders could not sell them.
One family of four (parents + 2 children) live in one of the houses, and in the 20 years I have lived in my house the man of the house has never had a job.
Why on earth should people like me work day in day out and take out a big mortage which took years to pay off when people like him can live in the same house as me not have one job and live off benefits.
THAT is why the benefit system needs a shake up, and not before time. We have had too many scroungers living off benefits for years.
They chose to live their life in a way that takes advantage of the benefit system but choosing never to take a job, have lots of children, be a single mother or father and so on.
I have worked all my life and have now retired. I have bought my house and worked hard to pay off the mortgate.
Just down my road are a couple of council houses (same style and size as mine) which were bought off the builders by the council about 40 years ago when the builders could not sell them.
One family of four (parents + 2 children) live in one of the houses, and in the 20 years I have lived in my house the man of the house has never had a job.
Why on earth should people like me work day in day out and take out a big mortage which took years to pay off when people like him can live in the same house as me not have one job and live off benefits.
THAT is why the benefit system needs a shake up, and not before time. We have had too many scroungers living off benefits for years.
As some know-I work for a charity for the homeless and vulnerable. While I do not deal with this aspect of their care,I know from my co-workers that this is going to make any current problems far worse. We expect to see a rise also in 'working poor'...those who may not qualify for benefits,yet are unable to manage on limited incomes. The whole benefit system is being revamped drastically-with an end to cash hand outs from what I've gathered.
My sister was made redundant from her job as a care worker, they have closed three homes in her area. My nephew is a year old. The father is chronically unwell and has just undergone surgery meaning that even if there was a job to be had, (there isn't, she'd been looking) my sister can't actually leave my nephew with his dad at the moment as he's not actually able to physically lift his son. I'm just glad she's 26.
While I'm all for reviewing the benefits system, it's rare that one cap will fit all. And you can't punish babies because their parents are tits in the cases where it is a lifestyle choice, (if there is such a thing, life on benefits for the average person isn't much fun in my expereince).
While I'm all for reviewing the benefits system, it's rare that one cap will fit all. And you can't punish babies because their parents are tits in the cases where it is a lifestyle choice, (if there is such a thing, life on benefits for the average person isn't much fun in my expereince).
From a blog on this topic when the idea was first floated ...
" a returning 22 year old soldier from Afghanistan – it’s ok to put your life on the line for your country, get a wondrous reception at Royal Wootton Bassett but get a job you lazy bastard as you’re not getting any HB. In fact even if Johnny Soldier comes marching home straight into a full time job, such is the state of Britain’s low wage economy; he would still qualify for Housing Benefit."
Amazingly a large proportion of Housing Benefit claimants are actually in work.
" a returning 22 year old soldier from Afghanistan – it’s ok to put your life on the line for your country, get a wondrous reception at Royal Wootton Bassett but get a job you lazy bastard as you’re not getting any HB. In fact even if Johnny Soldier comes marching home straight into a full time job, such is the state of Britain’s low wage economy; he would still qualify for Housing Benefit."
Amazingly a large proportion of Housing Benefit claimants are actually in work.
A life on benefits is a life of scrimping and going without. Papers like the Mail can occassionally find an Old Mother Hubbard with 15 kids and a 50" plasma tele but they're the exception.
Benefit cuts are always trumpeted as going to be harsher then they eventually are. Then, when the time comes for them the millionares in the cabinet doing the cutting can say, 'look it's not as bad as we feared'.
Benefit cuts are always trumpeted as going to be harsher then they eventually are. Then, when the time comes for them the millionares in the cabinet doing the cutting can say, 'look it's not as bad as we feared'.
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