NJ...in your last paragraph, at least, I think we are in agreement !
I have worked all my life and I am still working now, at age 63. I have no problem with my tax money going to the old, sick and disabled, but I am getting heartily fed up with these long-tern unemployed, that have never worked. The young mothers seem to be no better than baby machines and the young men simply sperm donors.
Gromit.......you are right. I live on a mixed estate, and most of the houses opposite are Council properties, except one of the retired, where they exercised their right-to-buy a few years ago.