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Originally Posted by martyh
How so ?
I think that this thread has proven that some people think that all disabled people should be allowed to sit on benefits and be supported by the state regardless of the severity of their disability and any suggestion that some disabled people are capable of working and supporting themselves is met with out and out hostility
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Yet by the same token anyone who does manage to find work off their own bat despite disability is jumped on for also expecting state help to either continue in work or failing that find other work. If you are disabled you
may need no help from the state to work or you
may need help to get work and sustain the job. Neither scenario is wrong. The important issue is what is not perhaps the cheapest option but what is cost effective in the long term. Clearly parts of Remploy were not cost effective so the right decision has for once been made. However, this government seems to have no idea how cost effective it is to keep a disabled person in their own home with a little support rather than in highly expensive residential care. So the vast majority of genuine disabled folk are lumped together with the tiny minority of fakers.
