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Originally Posted by peanut
So at the moment it's okay for the likes of the Philpotts to breed like rabbits and be left untouched to empty to pot, but if you're sick or disabled it's okay to have your money stopped and then have to be supported by a partner who could be on minimum wage? Which in turn forces the partner to give up work because it wouldn't be a viable option to live on.
That is one reason why I and others have moaned in this thread, the reform isn't thought out and they won't listen to anyone either.
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Some interesting thoughts on the issue from Dan Hannan in the Telegraph:
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Let's start with an obvious, though rarely admitted, truth. Under any welfare system as large as ours, there will be hard cases, unintended consequences, anomalies at both ends of the scale. There will be deserving people who lose out; there will be undeserving people who benefit. It could hardly be otherwise in our imperfect, sublunary world.
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It's worth reading the whole thing.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...ng-people-win/