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This is everything that is wrong with the UK

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  • Blacklight wrote: »
    Regardless of what someone implied; posting pictures of dead children is a totally disproportionate and inappropriate response to just about anything.


    I thought adding a bit of reality to what the OP wishes & hopes for would improve the debate.

    After all it is very important that the OP clarifies his remarks about being OK about starving to death children.

    Perhaps I am wrong about the pictures.

    Personally I am aware that the end result (dead people) started a hate campaign similar to what the OP posted then progressed further including things like withdrawal of all means of financial support before the gas chambers were built.
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  • Still no answer on this....

    Come on, we're all waiting to find out who is stopping this family from working....


    I am still waiting for clarification on which one of my points 1-3 you are?
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  • Still no answer on this....

    Come on, we're all waiting to find out who is stopping this family from working....


    The government is. By making the option of staying at home and breeding like rabbits lucrative.

    I don't think there really is any other answer.
    LBM 10/08 £12510.74/
  • I am still waiting for clarification on which one of my points 1-3 you are?

    i told you - none, because they are all a load of rubbish.

    my question is valid - who is stopping this family from working?

    I am not advocating starving people on purpose, but if a family unit decides to to have 10 children when they can't afford 1, that should remain their problem and not the tax payers. If they can't afford to eat, then it is their problem. not mine. that is why i only have two children. I could have 15 children as well, but I don't.
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    I have to agree with this, there is a whole Chav generation, who do nothing and want everything, the problem is the kids they have to fund the lifestyle then grow up with the same intention.

    Me and my financee can't afford a house and can't afford to have children (we both work and get reasonable wages), yet if we both quit and play the system we will get a house, how is this right?

    Saying that my brother got mugged for a £15 mobile phone and £3.60 a few months ago, yet if he pulled a gun out and shot all 7 of them he would go to prison... but should he go to prison for making the world a better place?

    The government should have the power to sterilise these parasites.

    Ok, maybe a bit of a rant but the situation does make my blood boil slightly.
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • The government is. By making the option of staying at home and breeding like rabbits lucrative.

    I don't think there really is any other answer.

    EXACTLY - and the family themselves of course.
  • i told you - none, because they are all a load of rubbish.


    No.

    It is definitely one of them.
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  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    edited 13 April 2010 at 2:46PM
    the only reason they want another 7 children is that they've worked out that is how many they need, staggered over the next 15 years or so, to ensure they continue to get their benefits until the point at which they can have the state pension.

    to be honest, if the govt said to me that it would pay me £42k to sit at home and play xbox, i know where i'd be, and it would definitely involve the white horse's tax paying my xbox live subscription.

    perhaps capping benefits around the minimum wage level would result in fewer people being interested in this kind of lifestyle.

    although i would think quite strongly about staying at home on minimum wage benefits if someone could demonstrate that it was being completely and exclusively funded by very angry daily mail readers.

    i would consider receiving a stipend from the daily mail for doing this as well, on the agreement they could write horrible stories about me.
  • there should be no benefits except FOOD STAMPS for these people.
  • There are two schemes running at the moment. Free laptops for kids of parents on benefits and Free after school activities for kids of the same. On the surface of it it is a great scheme but why don't I qualify??? Because I work. I work, I pay my bills, I struggle on by. If I gave up work tomorrow I would be better off-especially as I would have all that time to do cash in hand, and wouldn't even have to get out of bed in the morning to make pack lunches as he would get free school meals.

    Believe me I have been sorely tempted over the years just to sell up and live off the state.....but something always stops me. Morality maybe?
    LBM 10/08 £12510.74/
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