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D Day for Benefits Claimants as "nastiest" party has it's way
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I am very average.... 45 years old and about 2 stone overweight! Cycling 10 miles each way to work with a little practice is acheivable pretty much by anyone. My 7 mile journey takes about 30 minutes. It would take about 20 to 25 in a car (city traffic!)
Actually, thinking about it I am office based and if you did a hard manual job and were on your feet all day it may be different....0 -
Cycling 10 miles to work and back each day is really not that big a deal once you get used to it (I do 7 each way but 10 really wouldn't make that big a difference). I have cycled through the winter apart from snow or when the roads are very icy and dangerous. If i was desperate for a job and needed the money rather being handed it on a plate I would do this without a shadow of a doubt. I actually enjoy my ride to work most days!
What about walking? like Conrad suggests the old boys used to do
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
One of my wife's uncles used to cycle 100 miles per day round trip. Sometimes he'd even crash at work overnight.
It's this can - do dignified approach to sorting ones own destiny.
Before going self employed one of the first rules is to save a large emmergency fund and also consider insurance.
The point is we never hear from the great silent responsible lot that do plan for adversity.
My own example was the mortgage crash from about mid 2007 - had we not saved and sacrificed over years I too would have been one holding thier hand out for money and expecting others to sort my life. All too easy for people to go that route and milk sympathy.
I meet S/E folk who've not planned properly, for example they buy expensive dogs but then cannot fix the van when it brakes down.
Welfare is a last resort net for the few that fall on hard times and not the vast entitlment lifestyle it's become which has terrible detriment on the lives of some 2 millkion kids that have thier horizons dimmed by bad role models.Surely society, in particular it's children are served better by a tone whereby we all have to strive and yes sometimes make sacrifices and tough it out in order to get by?
It's not as if we have to walk 40 miles in the heat for water each day !!!!!!!
How is the entitlment mindset I see everywhere, any good in the long run?
We will deffo fall away as a nation if we persist down the mass entitlment / irresponisbility / no need to strive and put yourself out road.
I am not disagreeing with your sentiment or the thrust of we should all be self reliant first and foremost.
Unfortunately life is not like that for everyone stuff happens for all sorts of reasons even if you start out well intentioned. me people don't have the choice whether to build a cushion before entering into self employment, perhaps that is why so many fail.
We have all become accustomed to much. If we don't have the disposable income to waste we feel disadvantaged at all levels. That it is a sad outcome of living in a developed nation.
Can I ask what your wife's uncle was doing when he was cycling 100 mile round trip?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
I am very average.... 45 years old and about 2 stone overweight! Cycling 10 miles each way to work with a little practice is acheivable pretty much by anyone. My 7 mile journey takes about 30 minutes. It would take about 20 to 25 in a car (city traffic!)
Sound like me, if a little younger.
Probably makes alot of sense given the city traffic especially if their is a £10+ a day car park fee at the end..
We are semi rural and the back routes to work are not cycle friendly. Potholes, missing rain grids, narrow and unlimited speed limit roads."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »
Can I ask what your wife's uncle was doing when he was cycling 100 mile round trip?
I bet it was training for Tour De France
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I bet it was training for Tour De France
danielanthony started it on t'other thread:-
4 yorkshire men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
It just makes sense doesn't it, the more we push the idea work=reward the better.
If you don't work, fair enough warm shelter and food is fine, you want more then work for it.
If we go back to that, then house prices and rents would tumble. Its the high benefits that are holding up property, but it is unsustainable.0 -
markharding557 wrote: »The 'unfairness' in the new council tax benefit system is this: it is 30% in some places and yet almost nothing in others.
The percentage should be the same everywhere, that would make it fair to all.
It's local accountability, rather than central diktat....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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