Families Unable To Cope With Cost Of Living Crisis

[lankeela]

yet they have a houseful of kids - one on the BBC news had seven! This morning interviewed on Trussell Trust segment one woman had four and they had bags of food ready for a family of ten. I find myself screaming at the tv then don't have so many ***** kids.

[Untitled]

"It seems many over-50s have recently decided that work is no longer for them so they now join those who are "economically inactive." "

i don't see the problem with people who can afford to retire early doing so...

work is not something you do for the sake of other people (or the national economy) it is a means to an end.

[Untitled]

"It doesn’t make me uncomfortable. It makes me sick."

erm same thing...

perhaps think about why it makes you sick. if you really thought i was an idiot who didn't know anything then i doubt you'd feel anything at all

[davebro]

//i don't see the problem with people who can afford to retire early doing so...//

Retire - yes, if you've earned & saved enough to do so.
Give up work & expect to live on benefits due to feigned illness/unemployability? Not OK.

[naomi24]

I know why it makes me sick, untitled. I’ve told you. By your reasoning anyone who hasn’t done well in life is simply unlucky - and it follows that your assessment includes those who make no special effort. Even you must acknowledge that’s abject nonsense.

[Untitled]

how many over 50s are doing that?

[cashier]

Whilst there are some people who are struggling at the moment and for whom food banks are a necessity, the people you are reading about wherever you read about them, or hear on the radio or television are not. They would still rather send out for cooked food than buy the raw ingredients and cook them. They probably don't include the delivery charge as a extra cost. They use food banks because they are there, not because they need to. A single mother/father with four children gets enough in child benefits to feed the whole family for a week. They choose not to.

[Untitled]

i think you'll find most of this country's poor are quite hard working naomi... the couch potato on benefits is something of a myth.

[Untitled]

"it follows that your assessment includes those who make no special effort. Even you must acknowledge that’s abject nonsense."

i don't actually...

person a makes no effort and lives in squalour

person b makes no effort and lives grandly off daddy's money / investments

both of these are quite rare... but what's the difference between the two? naught but luck.

[naomi24]

Untitled, I assure you there’s nothing whatsoever you can tell me about the poor. You just need to acquire the ability to distinguish between those who take responsibility for themselves and try and those who don’t. Anything less is an insult to those who do work hard for a pittance.

[vulcan42]

\\the couch potato on benefits is something of a myth.//
I could, without moving more than half a mile in any direction, take you to quite a few of these myths.

[burlyshirley1]

Did anybody read about the family with seven kids and 35 dogs all crammed into a three bedroomed house recently ? One of the kids, a seven year old, was lying on a filthy blanket wearing a nappy next to a dead dog !! The parents were in receipt of £7,000 per month in benefits and yet they still neglected the children and dogs, most of whom were locked in one room. Scum of the earth who know how to play the system and you can bet your life they won't be the only ones !

[Untitled]

"those who take responsibility for themselves and try and those who don’t."

not everybody is equipped to do that... for all kinds of reasons that nobody really controls (mental health, abuse, sometimes low intellect or low confidence, deprived community, addiction etc.).. i would suggest people who aren't able to "take responsibility" deserve to be helped rather than dismissed. i know that's boring and doesn't feel as good as looking down one's nose at people but i reckon it's a more useful attitude...

[naomi24]

Untitled, if you think looking down your nose at people is wrong, stop doing it.

[youngmafbog]

More cobblers untitled.

And rather condescending to those with a low intellect as you put it. I know a fair few who were not blessed in the cerebral department but still work hard and take responsibility.

No one is looking down their nose at anyone, just get off your high horse mate.

[Untitled]

i didn't say everyone with a low intellect is incapable... if you look very very carefully i included the word "sometimes" for that reason.

"No one is looking down their nose at anyone"

and yet...

"I bet they've all got the latest Iphone, big screen TV, games console, fags, booze, wacky baccy, take away every night! Savages!"

"Or maybe there are two parents who don't want to work and expect the rest of us to keep them. Lots of possible scenarios"

"and very lazy and very entitled, very expectant that they are owed a living by the world."

"They are not unlucky, they are not genuinely ill, they are not victims of a chaotic world. They are simply feckless."

[naomi24]

And your problem with any of that is what exactly? Some people ARE like that!

[Untitled]

i disagree with the idea that people who are poor are simply people who have failed to "take responsibility" when there are all kinds of reasons why someone can be incapable of doing that without assistance

[naomi24]

No one has said that.

[Untitled]

i thought that was your whole point

[webbo3]

There is no cost of living crisis, everyday I get a bus to work in the centre of Bristol, on the way home all the pubs, shops and restaurants are packed, the bus home is full of parents with numerous kid all eating McDonalds and other foods with half a dozen bags of shopping and the bus I normally get stinks of weed going into work at 6am and coming home at 5:30 pm.