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Newspapers Report "Disabled Car Plan Racket"

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  • happy_lass
    happy_lass Posts: 464 Forumite
    and before you open your mouth even wider and protest even more, me and hubby both work. Hubby works full time and i work part time. so stick that in your pipe, i am sorry to be rude, but you really do get on my t its.
    life is what you make it, make it fun !
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    beller wrote: »
    Quite literal!

    At least I AM contributing. My objection is to those that contribute NOTHING. The likes of the disabled/sick that don't work and pay tax, the unemployed that don't work and pay tax, the pensioners that don't work and pay tax.

    Obviously there are exceptions. But in the main the majority in the above categories do NOT contribute anything - yet take everything!!!

    Everyone who buys goods, pays for utilities etc, pays into the tax pot.

    How literal are we going?

    You despise those who take out more than they pay in. Someone mentions that you are taking out more then you pay in. The goalposts change again, it seems. Now it's someone who pays nothing in.
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • jetta_wales
    jetta_wales Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    pipkin71 wrote: »
    Everyone who buys goods, pays for utilities etc, pays into the tax pot.

    How literal are we going?

    You despise those who take out more than they pay in. Someone mentions that you are taking out more then you pay in. The goalposts change again, it seems. Now it's someone who pays nothing in.

    Even though his wife has paid nothing in. I guess that's because she chose "to live the life of a disabled person".
    "Life is what you make of it, whoever got anywhere without some passion and ambition?
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    STOCKWIRE wrote: »
    Not so long ago some one with a mobility car wanted to know what help she could get taking her children to school ~ as her partner was using the Mobility car to get to and from work every day.
    "And who is it that is actually taking the !!!! here?"

    Was it jetta_wales who started that thread?
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    That high horse of yours really isn't as high as you think after all is it?

    Agree.

    It is quite sad that someone will voice such negative opinions when they are not so different themselves.
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • jetta_wales
    jetta_wales Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    pipkin71 wrote: »
    Was it jetta_wales who started that thread?

    Yes it was me who asked if there was any help available to disabled parents having difficulties with getting their children to school by themselves because of their disability.
    "Life is what you make of it, whoever got anywhere without some passion and ambition?
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    beller wrote: »
    Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!

    If you have never had to experience what we have in our lives, then I would suggest you keep your comments to yourself.

    By the same token, you haven't experienced what many on here have to go through.

    Keeping comments to yourself works both ways, tbh.
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    Yes it was me who asked if there was any help available to disabled parents having difficulties with getting their children to school by themselves because of their disability.

    I thought so.

    Did the school offer any help in the end?
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • jetta_wales
    jetta_wales Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    edited 23 June 2011 at 7:00PM
    pipkin71 wrote: »
    I thought so.

    Did the school offer any help in the end?

    Not the school themselves but yes a solution was found.

    And I've been given cane training too which has been really good at giving a little more confidence too and increasing a little the length of time I can be out for as I can keep my eyes shut more.
    "Life is what you make of it, whoever got anywhere without some passion and ambition?
  • FleurDuLys
    FleurDuLys Posts: 227 Forumite
    So surely you can understand that plenty of people on disability benefits are simply too ill to work at all, because you have been in that position yourself?
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