Its a wonderful life... Want to try.....?? A Single parents View.. !!xx!

sammyy

black-saturn wrote:

I was on benefit until about 6 months ago. I don't have any rent or mortgage to pay but to be honest I am only about £18 per week better off for working than I was on benefit.

Wow.Get a mortgage and pay it all off in only six months.Now I am impressed.:rolleyes:

larmy16

I think one of the girls in the programme last night shed a few tears, so aware was she of being looked down up and branded a scrounger. There are far less worthy benefit claimants than those two girls. For example grown men who avoid working by claiming back problems or anxiety state. Let's not focus on young kids with little self esteem, looking for love in the only way they know how.

They still have plenty of time to give back to society. The one with the two boys was mature beyond her years and I have a feeling she will make a great success of her life given time.

Lord knows they probably need those cigarettes and the odd night out to keep sane.

black-saturn

krisskross wrote:

Black Saturn you are the author of your own downfall. All of us regulars know that were were very definitely on benefits until a few months ago. In this thread you have said that you intend going back on benefits if you do not earn more in the next couple of months. Personally I take everything you say with about a ton of salt.

Yes because I'm not daft enough to cut off my nose to spite my face and be worse off than I am on benefit.

black-saturn

sammyy wrote:

Wow.Get a mortgage and pay it all off in only six months.Now I am impressed.:rolleyes:

Not 6 months, 5 years :rolleyes:

viktory

black-saturn wrote:

Can you please point out then where in your posts you said your life picked up BEFORE your OH came along?

Nope. I am not doing your research for you. After all with 7 A levels at A grade surely you must be able to do simple reading. Read all posts carefully, and you will see.

You have misconstrued many, many posts on here by a number of different people and appear to only respond to those that suit.

black-saturn

viktory wrote:

Nope. I am not doing your research for you. After all with 7 A levels at A grade surely you must be able to do simple reading. Read all posts carefully, and you will see.

You have misconstrued many, many posts on here by a number of different people and appear to only respond to those that suit.

So have you dear. I'm not about to reply to EVERY post in this thread :rolleyes:

viktory

Ah but I have read every post. Sweetheart.

Scarlett1

I think we are all getting bored with the single parent debate now so lets try something different for some people to get their claws into, what about the good for nothing lazy single guys on JSA sitting in their council flat smoking canabis and going out boozing every friday night

viktory

black-saturn wrote:

Yes because I'm not daft enough to cut off my nose to spite my face and be worse off than I am on benefit.

It is not supposed to be your choice. You clearly can and are working and should continue to do so. You should not have the choice to go back on benefits because you can't be bothered anymore. You are sooooooo educated, use that expensive education and continue to earn.

viktory

westernpromise wrote:

The trouble is that those on the take are apparently allowed to decide whether to stay on the take or not. In a fair system, this should not be the claimant's decision, it should be the taxpayer's.

If there are any vacancies at the local job centre, nobody in that area should be getting any dole at all unless they can prove they cannot do any of those jobs. Proof would be a letter from all those employers, rejecting their application.

If they cannot show that, and hence the vacancies remain, then the assumption should be that that claimant is not trying to get work, and they should have their payments reduced to somewhere below the level of the lowest-paid job advertised. This measure would provide them with the economic incentive they need to take any job at all rather than stay on the dole.

It is irrelevant whether taking those jobs would make the claimant economically worse off. If it does, too bad. Their not doing so makes all the rest of us economically worse off. Claimants should not be entitled to choose the dole as an alternative career. People with 7 A-levels most certainly should not be entitled to do so. The dole is a safety net for people who have fallen on hard times, not for people who have made foolish or selfish lifestyles choices.

It would be tough for some people initially having to get out of bed 5 days a week when they have been used to idleness for years. But it is a necessary first step if such people are to rejoin the human race.

Hear hear :T :T :T