OK we've had tantrums and rants over the career scroungers....

[R1Geezer]

So I ask a serious question, how do we get rid of this idea that it's a career choice to have kids and live on benefits? Would a harsh measure, install in the generation that endures it, a sense that it is not an easy life? Would that effectively end the culture over a generation?

[Bobbisox]

morning R1, I am afraid you will have too many 'do gooders' opposing harsh measures, even in the Government

[anotheoldgit]

I listened to George Galloway last night on TalkSport Radio.

He was saying that we should be encouraging people to produce as many children as possible.

He said that "the Government should put money on the table and increase the amount of cash that one gets for having a child".

He failed or did not want to explain how the infrastructure of the country would be able to cope with this huge increase in the population.

I fail to understand why this person is allowed to host his own Far-Left radio programme, when it would be unheard of for a Far-Right radio programme to go on air.

[Bobbisox]

why the hell woiuld he want this to happen..is he mad or what?
answer..YES!

[ummmm]

I really couldn't get my head around the fact that someone would have a baby to get benefits. I mean, looking after a person for 16+ years is not an easy job.

But...after just talking to someone who's not long had a baby with someone who now has 4 kids by 4 different Dads and her attitude...it's quite shocking to be honest.

[saxy_jag]

I don't think it's so much a case of having kids just to get benefits - there are easy ways of getting money than that. But there is an all-too-common attitude of 'it doesn't matter if I have any more kids because the state will take care of me'. Hear some people around here in conversation and you get the impression there is an expectation of benefits rather than seeing them as a fall back if the worst should happen.

I think the government is right to cut them, although maybe not in the cack-handed way they've gone about it. Once people begin to realise we're not automatically going to raise their kids for them, then maybe they'll think twice before dropping their trousers and knickers.