This has to be a joke...

I am not familiar with the website, but this is crazy or a joke.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

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The Daily Mail is a Daily newspaper over here in the UK and sadly it's not a joke.

 

i am afraid it's all too true it's known as working the system, the benefit system in the UK is so easy too manipulate that people can get more money staying at home than working.

 

People do it here also. I have known people who were proud of their 'crazy check'. What angers me about the link is the people saying it is their right to get free money, and they would rather stay in bed rather than work.:mad

And for the record, I have nothing against people who get public assistance as long as they actually need it. It really angers me when able bodied people just lay around and think it is their 'right' to be housed and fed. Heck, they even have cable or sat TV

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All too common in this day and age, I fear. Some people use what is intended to be a safety-net as a hammock (to borrow an apt phrase I heard somewhere) . . . rolleyes

I worked two jobs to support my first wife while she was in school to be a nurse. She applied for what grants and such she qualified for, but we still went into debt with student loans to fund the lion's share of her education. Our income at that time was below the Federal poverty level.

I remember one day she came home mad as hell at a gal she car-pooled with. This person was on public assistance - getting her education paid for, her child care paid for (this woman had even been openly debating about having a second child with her unemployed boyfriend, if you can believe that), her food paid for, her transportation costs paid for, and her apartment paid for, all on public money. What finally threw my wife over the edge was this gal complaining that the apartment building where her free (to her) apartment was located didn't have a pool.

I kid you not - true story. I wasn't so much angry at the complaint . . . but at this woman's overall arrogant attitude that she was somehow entitled to this largess, and thus not required to appreciate it . . .

Gee, I didn't (and don't) have a pool either . . . nor did I enjoy working two jobs. I worked the evening shift, and would take care of our two sons during the day while she was in school. My mom would help out when my second job got in the way on days. I've no doubt we qualified for all kinds of public assistance - and I was not too proud to apply for such, if it turned out we actually needed it. We didn't - it was hard, but we got by. I don't recall sleeping a whole lot back then, but I was young and could get away with it.

I don't understand people who think the world at large owes them something . . .

 

This is NOT a slam against england. Maybe someday they may do the same thing the usa finally did about people that did not want to work. Now they have to do comunity service to recive there welfare check. While not perfect its a step in the right direction. Sure there are lazy people that get other benifets that don't deserve them.

In time england will do something about these type of people. Seeing that in the paper im sure got some to notice that was going on.

 

I have not heard of that here Tym, do you have any information on it? Quite the novel idea, you work so many yours a day, and you get food and a place to stay... I like it. Kinda like a job! Wow, if they did that here, we would not have companies not moving here because of a litter problem.

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