"Summer of Rage"

Broken_hearted

Yawn same old same old..Nasty disabled people and their rights to help. Lets have them all put down save a fortune.

1echidna

donaldtramp wrote: »

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As for all these stories I hear about (dyslexia and the likes) it drives me insane. ...........
Sickening, absolutely sickening.

Oh well go to your GP he will arrange the appropriate treatment. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: You clearly aren't fit to work. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

bendix

Broken_hearted wrote: »

Yawn same old same old..Nasty disabled people and their rights to help. Lets have them all put down save a fortune.

Oh please. That's not what anyone is saying. Try reading the threads again.

Surely even you can't believe that 1 in 4 people in Glasgow and Everton are genuinely incapacitated to such an extent they can't work. It's a disgrace. Is there something in the water there that makes people sicker than the national average - of course not.

This is not a medical issue; it's a cultural issue and it needs to be addressed immediately. It makes me ashamed to be English.

It's also a disgrace that people on this forum - whose very existence is to promote financial prudence and responsibiity - don't think it's a disgrace.

1echidna

Of course it would be nice if Glasgow and Everton were centres of healthy, hard working and prosperous communities. This is hard to achieve and certainly would not happen just by the state saving a bit of money on converting some people's incapacity benefit to the typically slightly lower supplementary benefit and making the wealth of already very deprived areas slightly less. Or do you have something more constructive in mind?

mewbie_2

I suspect that after a few months of being out of work, surviving on the breadline, that I would be finding life pretty tough, stressful and depressing. I suspect there are indeed a lot of mental health issues and stress - invisible diseases - but none less the real for that.

Jennifer_Jane

bendix wrote: »

I dont suppose I'm the only one also to spot the irony that this usual bunch of motley 'rent a cause' professional protesters are likely the ONLY people in society not affected by the recession, on the basis that they don't work, have no assets, no financial discipline and no economic stake in society accept for the walk they make to the Post Office to cash their giro . . . . .

Ohhhhh . . . . . NOW I get it!

Absolutely - looked at this site. They want to overthrow Capitalism - a terrible idea:

http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2009032528.php

Very dangerous bunch, in my view.

Jen
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shewhoguards

donaldtramp wrote: »

As for all these stories I hear about (dyslexia and the likes) it drives me insane. At a place I used to work a guy turned up every day and did a full 40 hour week. He was crippled after having polio when he was younger. He could not walk one step. HE was truly "entitled" to use disabled bays. I have a funny feeling that the general public take a dim view of the "incapacitated" and their disabled priority spaces and shiny new disability cars.

What world are you living in where some of those people using the disabled priority spaces aren't also working?

And coming from the poorer part of the country, I've got no problem with the disabled, or with anyone who struggles to get by. There but for the grace of God and all that. Snippy well-off folk who begrudge every penny coming out of their pocket and look down on anyone who can't get by completely independently on the other hand, I would just as happily see move abroad. I would be far happier scraping my own pockets to give tuppence to someone who needed it than see it coming from someone who could afford it, but who would spit on the person it went to.

mewbie_2

shewhoguards wrote: »

What world are you living in where some of those people using the disabled priority spaces aren't also working?

I'm sure that a good proportion of the disabled places at the supermarket are occupied by perfectly fit non claiming people, who are too self-important or selfish to walk a few extra yards from a normal place.

donaldtramp

I too have no problem with the disabled claiming what they need. I do however strongly object to the fact that 10% of the population are on the incapacity gravy train.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/25761/The-shocking-number-on-Incapacity-Benefit-is-the-sickest-joke-of-all/

In 1995 about 20 per cent of claimants cited mental health problems – now 40 per cent do. The number of IB claimants has more than trebled since 1979. This cannot be right.

The overall health of the nation has substantially improved during this period so the number of people too ill to work should have substantially fallen. .

Trebled since 1979?? Someone (actually millions) are having a laugh! Where has all this illness suddenly appeared from?
You know what? My job is stressful but I manage to get out of my bed every day and turn up.

There are probably about 500,000 wholly genuine claimants out there and they must by now be heartily fed up with the stigma they are suffering because of the antics of the freeloading brigade

I feel for these genuine people. I really do.

lynzpower

I feel for you Donald as you clearly seem to be missing that Incapcity BENEFIT NO LONGER EXISTS