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Breeding for Benefits
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Spartacus_Mills wrote: »Horse, what opinion, if any, do you hold of the fine people in this article ?
http://www.derbygripe.co.uk/scrounge.htm
they should be imprisoned for many years. never mind paying it back. examples need to be made of this filth.0 -
The benefits system in this country was designed as a "safety net" for the most needy in society.
It's certainly can't be described as that now.
Benefits should be reduced on a monthly basis thereby ensuring that those who claim that it would cost them too much to go out to work, can no longer trundle this out this shabby excuse.Nothing is foolproof, as fools are so ingenious!
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"The police even warned our kids they can't walk in more than two's. It means if my family wanted to walk to church on a Sunday, we couldn't, not that we go to church, mind."
I found that hilarious - I thought they might have been Methodists.
It does seem like plenty must almost be looking for one of there kids have some kind of disability to top up benefits with "carers allowance".
Its basics economics - people respond to incentives, and in this country the incentives are all wrong.
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kennyboy66 wrote: »"The police even warned our kids they can't walk in more than two's. It means if my family wanted to walk to church on a Sunday, we couldn't, not that we go to church, mind."
I found that hilarious - I thought they might have been Methodists.
It does seem like plenty must almost be looking for one of there kids have some kind of disability to top up benefits with "carers allowance".
Its basics economics - people respond to incentives, and in this country the incentives are all wrong.
Great post, Kenny - sums it all up.
If you incentivise people not to work and to breed for cash, then they will do that.
Remove the incentives and it will stop.0 -
kennyboy66 wrote: »"The police even warned our kids they can't walk in more than two's. It means if my family wanted to walk to church on a Sunday, we couldn't, not that we go to church, mind."
I found that hilarious - I thought they might have been Methodists.
It does seem like plenty must almost be looking for one of there kids have some kind of disability to top up benefits with "carers allowance".
Its basics economics - people respond to incentives, and in this country the incentives are all wrong.
Is it methodists that will not have sex standing up, in case it could be mistaken for dancing?0 -
The_White_Horse wrote: »they also need a database of benefit claimants (except child benefit as everyone gets that) and anyone on it should be refused a credit card.
why not child benefit? you're still "benefit scum" if you're claiming child benefitsMartin has asked me to tell you I'm about to cut the cheese, pull my finger.0 -
kennyboy66 wrote: »It does seem like plenty must almost be looking for one of there kids have some kind of disability to top up benefits with "carers allowance".
Its basics economics - people respond to incentives, and in this country the incentives are all wrong.
Can just imagine ante-natal appointments when a midwife says that might be something wrong and the parent says, "I hope so".I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
The great irony is how much these professional non-workers depend on working people - doctors, dentists, shop-workers, the postie, not to mention fire-fighters, the NHS, people working in banks, the dustmen. The list obviously goes on. It's not just the tax that we all pay to keep these people in their homes, they are dependent on huge numbers of workers to enable their lives to work smoothly.
Bah Humbug!0 -
Let me give you a clue as to why we are in hock to the far east-Thatcherism and its insane policies of de-industrializing the uk which were then continued by blair.The_White_Horse wrote: »these people are filth - I never saw the programme but look at that picture - all wearing nice clothes, on a nice sofa. sickening. they should be in rags and sitting on an old crate. why are they living the same life as me when I work and they are sub-human grasping filth? I'll tell you, because of the lefty cancer.
Lefty cancer is what will destroy the western world. In 200 years, we will all be subservient to the east and we will man the call centres. And when you ask why, look to the lefty who sold us out so the workshy scum could live like kings because they are entitled.
leftys - the biggest danger to society ever.
I would love to know how those people can get 45000 in benefits because my disabled dad and his wife get no where near that and his wife is a pensioner at that0
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