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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Bang on there its all been propoganda to manipulate the massess constant news reports about those on incapacity benefits and other reports saying all claimaints of any unemployment benefit has it too easy. When the real truth is the lowest paid jobs dont offer a liveable wage. They trying to give the impression peoples taxes are going to fund social welfare when in reality in 2008 alone its predicted over 100billion pound is going to be injected into the banking sector (seen any news reports on this?) making unemployments benefits seem like pennies.
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I am not making excuses for the goverment, or Northern Rock (who directly or indirectly caused their own problems), but the reason the government did that is that if they hadn't, and Northern Rock had collapsed, it could have caused the collapse of one (or more) of the larger banks (Barclays, Natwest or HSBC). If this had happened, in all likelyhood, our economy would have collapsed . Because, thanks to various factors including high property prices, far too many people are very heavily in debt.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
It is all to easy these days to use and apply the term "workshy" on people that you don't know and have no idea of their personal circumstance.
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I don't think anyone is stating all benefit claimants are workshy scroungers, but a *lot* of claimants are. When I was on benefits, I spent most of my days looking for work. Similarly, a friend of mine was a student at my Uni. Every day she came in, she'd spend the whole day working on her studies. He (apparently unaware I could see him from where I used to take a break) would wait until she was out of sight, then nip in to the local pub for the day. Yes, they were both on as many grants as a couple with no kids could get, but she worked hard. He didn't work, and when he did get a job, he normally lasted 2-3 days before getting fired.