Moral Hazard & Fairness - Housing

sjaypink

wheretheresawill wrote: »

plus council tax benefit, housing benefit, free prescriptions
Also dont need to pay for petrol to go to work (120 a month for me), professional fees, work clothes

Yes we've already considered the housing costs

As for the work clothes, we all need clothes to cover our !!!!!! 7 days per week (well 5 at least)

michaels

Yes - an added expense of having kids - you need PJs and clothes to wear at the weekends...

sjaypink wrote: »

Yes we've already considered the housing costs

As for the work clothes, we all need clothes to cover our !!!!!! 7 days per week (well 5 at least)

IveSeenTheLight

StevieJ wrote: »

Whoops, Upsy Daisy

You missed the next line "Here I come"

Wait a minute, is INTG the next Captain pugwash

LilacPixie

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

You missed the next line "Here I come"

Wait a minute, is INTG the next Captain pugwash

It could possibly be. That upsa daisy definatly flirts with iggle piggle and makka pakka has a weird fetish with washing others with his spong and soap.

IveSeenTheLight

LilacPixie wrote: »

It could possibly be. That upsa daisy definatly flirts with iggle piggle and makka pakka has a weird fetish with washing others with his spong and soap.

She definately does flirt, hugging and kissing IgglePiggle all the time.

Worse than that though, even though her bra doesn't ping when she pull her string, her skirt certainly inflates so she can show off her knickers and bend over.
Good job, my 18 month son has mooved on to other programs.

Maybe it should be after the 21:00 watershed

LilacPixie

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

She definately does flirt, hugging and kissing IgglePiggle all the time.

Worse than that though, even though her bra doesn't ping when she pull her string, her skirt certainly inflates so she can show off her knickers and bend over.
Good job, my 18 month son has mooved on to other programs.

Maybe it should be after the 21:00 watershed

Not to mention she is constantly followed around by her bed!

Current programs of choice here is 3rd and bird which I detest, handy manny and bizzarly fraggle rock which is on at 7am.

IveSeenTheLight

LilacPixie wrote: »

Not to mention she is constantly followed around by her bed!

Current programs of choice here is 3rd and bird which I detest, handy manny and bizzarly fraggle rock which is on at 7am.

3rd and bird is alright, never heard of handy manny but that too sounds a bit iffy

I think the son's current favourite is Roary.

That said we try to limit the tele and only use it when there's only the wife or I are on our own and need to get something done such as the cooking.

LilacPixie

the 7am fraggle rock is when I shower, handy manny/3rd and bird is tea time making/preping/cooking viewing.
Handy manny is on the disney playhouse channel. he is a mexican handyman with a box of talking tools with names like stretch, pat, rusty, flicker. He flirts quite alot with Kelly from the hardware store.

See that why everyone needs a 50 inch plasma. To watch kiddie tv and distract the pests while the parents do sharp/dangerous things. plus there is more drama than in eastenders

dlk

LilacPixie wrote: »

My not quite 4 year old announced last week she wants to be a vet, no doubt that will change about 100 times over the next few years. I cannot imagine her ambition to claim benefits.

No half decent parent could imagine their child growing up with those ambitions and thankfully your child, my child and most other children with decent parents who set a good example won't grow up with those ambitions.

Sadly however there is a large section of society where this isn't the case. My girlfriend is a primary school teacher at a school in a poor estate and when they talked about ambitions and what jobs the children wanted 7 out of the class actually said I don't want to work I'll just go on the dole! They are under 11 yet already they are set for the same lives as their parents and no doubt their children will follow on the family trade of beneift claiming.

Until benefits are set at a level that incentivises work (and tax personal allowances rise to help low paid workers) this will continue. The welfare state should be an emergency back up and not a comfortable standard.