Make them work for benefits
02-September-2010
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Amazing isn't it?  Someone has finally realised that there's pretty large number of lazy individuals in this country who are more than happy to sit on their backsides, do nothing and claim benefits.  It's just a shame that it's the Conservative opposition party that's finally woken up to this reality and not the present government.  For once in my life I'm considering voting Tory at the next election and my parents would probably turn in their grave if they knew.

We all know who these people are.  I'm willing to bet that each and every one of us could think of a couple of faces that fall into the "work shy" category.  A friend of a friend, someones son or brother.  They don't work, have never worked and have no intention of working.  They'll sit at home watching daytime telly, spending their benefits on fags and booze.  Maybe they are a bit younger and don't quite fall into that stereotype.  But they know the rules and they play the system just the same.

I'm not talking about people who are genuinely unemployed here.  A couple months between real jobs is one thing, but a couple of jobs in five or ten years is another matter all together.  This is seriously taking the proverbial by the way, and I for one don't like the thought that my (seriously inflated) taxes go towards keeping these benefit scroungers in a comfy lifestyle whilst other more deserving individuals struggle to make ends meet.

A job advert

Some people genuinely can't work for health reasons

The men and women who are genuinely unemployed have my sympathy and deserve help.  They will through their own merit find work and may well still struggle to survive (some employers should be locked up for taking advantage too!), but they'll take pride in themselves and earn a living for themselves.  Likewise some people genuinely can't work for health reasons and they too deserve assistance.  As for the fraudsters who claim incapacity benefit when they know damn well they can work, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I just can't understand the all take and no give attitude of these individuals.  How can you feel good about yourself knowing that you spend a large chunk of your life living off other people and giving nothing back?  It would be interesting to see how these leeches would fair if there were no benefits system.

So go ahead, let's get the long term unemployed out doing some useful community work and cut back their benefits.  It might look like a form of punishment for being lazy, but if the cap fits...

By: Working man


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Ah but Rob your time is running out sunshine. Mind you you might get something back when it does. Things like self respect and a sense of worth (instead of the opposite) If you look out of your box that you are in it must be awfully boring. Hols in Skeggy, Jeremy Kyle and cigs and lager and chips everyday (I bet you have a dog as well and your girlfriend has a tatoo on her shoulder or ankle??
. Maybe you will see the worth of life at some point and not the pointless life you are living whilst draining money from the decent folk...of which Rob, for the time being, you are not
*The Undertaker  22-Jul-2010 23:22

 
I admit to being lazy and claining benefits...so what!.....remember...only fools and horses work...lol
*Rob  20-Jul-2010 17:55

 
amazing isn,t it, we are prepared to abuse trades people who have no job by proposing food and clothing vouchers following Germany. yet we ignore the real reason for the state of the ecomomy, that reason is greedy landlords and money lenders, how much money was handed out in the last ten years in social security billions, but how much money was invented /printed for the rich , that money is called equity /rent and interest, in the last tens years that invented money could be measured in trillions, we need to open our eyes , instead of calling those people who belong to the surplus workforce , surplus because of government policy to keep wages down, landlords need to work for a living instead of using tenants to finance there pleasurable lifestyle,,
*the real athair_siochain,  20-Jul-2010 11:07

 
Germany has said today that they will be giving out food and clothing vouchers instead of cash to people who could work, but can't seem to find work,

At least then the workers know that on payday, the tax taken out of their paypackets and given to their bone idle neighbours, can't be used to buy cigarettes, booze and fund nights out on the town.
*Gainsborough lad.  15-Jul-2010 19:39

 
Sorry what are you trying to say. is it, that if we give these people some self respect and purpose then they will turn to crime? Easy answer to that is make prisons real prisons i.e no tv, hi fi just a bog and a bed. make it so they never want to go back again, then you will see a difference. Maybe I should write a book????
*Undertaker  25-Jun-2010 16:34

 
listen you fringe if people are made to work for benefits then yes you shall save some money, but not nearly as much as you will lose due to increase in crime, police utilsation etc

read the book Dark Heart, about Britain
*jonny  24-Jun-2010 06:59

 
Sorry Roxy this is a better site to look at http://crusader.synthasite.com/
*crusader  24-May-2010 15:17

 
Simon Cowell is making a new tv programme soon, it's going to be called bone idol
*Hard working taxpayer  23-May-2010 22:17

 
Hi Roxy. It's a shame that people can't tell the difference between a needy cause for benefits and the sctoungers. I feel for you as you obviously are struggling and I do know where you are coming from so the word scrounger does not apply in your case. I have enclosed a web site that I have created which I hope will help you. You should not visit these sites as they are directed at the lazy not the poorly. Good luck and you are not alone
http://livingwithfear.lifeyo.com
*crusader  22-May-2010 14:48

 
I've been diagnosed with BPD. I have a very hard time keeping a job. For some reason I can't take much stress (been like that since a was a teenager) and under stress develop insomnia, depression and go suicidal. I've already attempted suicide but people (i.e: doctors etc.) don't take me seriously and don't have a cure for my chronic condition (no drugs will work + they offer no therapy). I am also scared of worksfare of not being able to cut it. I'm just so scared. In fact I don't think I'll be alive much longer. People saying that everyone on benefits is a lazy scounger doesn't help. When I'm gone I hope that will save you some of your tax dollars. Just pray that none of your children ever gets mental illness and is made to feel like the toerag of society.
*Roxy  19-May-2010 10:51

 
Breaking News, Labour's out, Tory's are in. Public sector jobs- chop chop chop chop chop chop chop.
Public sector pensions, chop chop chop chop chop chop chop. Oh how I have longed for this day.
*Jethro  11-May-2010 20:22

 
Angela, if your benefits were suddenly stopped, I bet you would find a job within two weeks. unfourtunatly for us workers they won't, so we will get taxed more out of our pay, it's us as well that now can't afford haircuts, holidays or even the dentist, the latter is even free for you, I have to pay for that, even though I can't afford it myself.
*Hard working taxpayer  09-May-2010 19:48


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