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Doozergirl wrote: »I appreciate that Generali, and it doesn't please me, but we're taking the michael out of a couple of people who need to use mobility scooters here and semi-accusing them of living the high life
I'll get flamed for being pc or whatever but it just doesn't seem right with what look like a genuinely vulnerable couple.
I'm not commenting on the couple directly. It's meant more as an observation on welfare in general. TBH, I don't blame the recipients either - I try to maximise my income, why shouldn't anyone else. It's more the well meaning halfwits that vote for welfare for the working/should-be-working poor that get my goat. Bl00dy socialists....etc.
Anyway, apologies all as I'm going massively OT (again). Been hitting the port and cheese as I find out about whether I've got my new job tomorrow. I was meant to find out last Thursday and I don't know if I can take much more...0 -
Anyway, apologies all as I'm going massively OT (again). Been hitting the port and cheese as I find out about whether I've got my new job tomorrow. I was meant to find out last Thursday and I don't know if I can take much more...
I've had an entire can of Bulmers and I feel much the same about whether the TV tomorrow is better than tonight. I don't know if I can take much more...
Good Luck with your job
Why didn't they tell you before? Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl wrote: »Good Luck with your job
ThanksDoozergirl wrote: »Why didn't they tell you before?
Because it's the sort of job that a lot of people want and so they keep getting applicants from some pretty big hitters. From what I understand, I'm quite a way below most of the others on paper but the bloke likes me from my interview.
As I'll be working for Titchy Hedge Fund (if I get it) and so there'll be just the 2 of us in the office for much of the time, it's important we get on.
It'll be a big change from Big Bank. 50% pay cut for a start.0 -
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I'm not commenting on the couple directly. It's meant more as an observation on welfare in general. TBH, I don't blame the recipients either - I try to maximise my income, why shouldn't anyone else. It's more the well meaning halfwits that vote for welfare for the working/should-be-working poor that get my goat. Bl00dy socialists....etc.
what i dont get is why im paying so much tax to support the charity of people that could be providing a service rather than siting on the couch watching telly.
i mean whats wrong with having them digging roads etc like the germans which ended up with the autobahns, how many people are going to pass up a call center job when the alternantive is a government work camp.
anyway i am away back to reading Atlas Shrugged0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »:eek: Why?!
Possibility of being very well off in a couple of years. Properly rich in 4 or 5.
It's a gamble. I'll earn enough to keep body and soul together in the meantime.0 -
anyway i am away back to reading Atlas Shrugged
Sounds like an interesting book. I like reading dystopian fiction (1984, Brave New World, 451(?) Farenheit etc.).
Anyway, off to bed to dream utopian dreams....0 -
Sounds like an interesting book. I like reading dystopian fiction (1984, Brave New World, 451(?) Farenheit etc.).
Anyway, off to bed to dream utopian dreams....
May I recommend "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, it is, I think, the first dystopian novel."Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
"I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »Anybody here actually fancy living off benefits
I'm considering living off tax credits. I have my own limited company where I pay myself minimum wage (about 11k) and take the rest as dividends. I once went to www.entitledto.co.uk to see what I'd get if I only earned 11k. I found that I'd be 'entitled to' a further £11k.
I need to pay off my mortgage first and only have savings up to 6k. However, when you take into account that I will hardly be paying any tax, and will be paying the minimum NI to get my state pension, we could live very nicely thank you on £22k with no mortgage. The remaining 100k of my income could then stay in my company. If I did this long enough I could become a millionaire!
All because Labour decided to use 'credits' instead of encouraging people to work by increasing the tax free allowance of people who have children and letting couples share their allowances so that one person can stay at home with the kids and one person work. I don't want tax credit thanks Mr Brown, I just want to keep more of my hard-earned so that I can take care of my family without labour's help.
Don't you just love the welfare state! We replacing the support of the family with the support of the state and wonder why families are falling apart. It wasn't like this in my Grandad's day, let me tell you.
Don't get me started on the welfare system! :mad:Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
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● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
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