I do and always have felt like a sponger and i know that is purely down to me i am living a way i was never bought upto live i joined the army as soon as i was old enough starting off in the junior leaders (no comments needed from some of you
) and got wounded on deployment. It wasn't my fault but the fact is to me it doesn't feel right to not be working and earning the way i was bought up to believe a man should.
Now we live in a climate where people like me who have no chance of working normally if at all ever again are made to feel we are a burden on our country and others. We are and people like me always have been but in the past we had the dignity as a society to not make that clear and rub it in the faces of those like me. Yes there is fraud we all know there is i know better then any moron at the daily hate but the scale of it really isn't as big as some people like to believe and most of those doing it are repeat offenders allowed to carry on doing it by the system itself.
Trouble is it is always easier to play to the baying mob then try to educate them or tell them why they are wrong and when that baying mob holds enough votes we no longer have politicians of courage and decency to want to do it anyway. I have seen many times the quote of "a society is judged on how it treats it's prisoner's" or near enough but to me thats wrong the true mark of a society is how it treats and regards it's most vulnerable. I do worry now that i will have all my benefits taken off me because some numpty at atos declares me fit for work and although i will get any back on appeal you don't get back the months of worry and stress that is caused by losing your benefits for that time.
How i wish i could work because despite what some think if i could work i damn well wouldn't be anywhere near a benefit it isn't the holiday and good time that many think it is or that some of our less reputable media make it out to be.