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"Surviving" on Benefits the real story
bryemycaz
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I love how the DM is painting the picture of benefit scroungers like the evil Philpotts as having all the latest gadgets and bucking the system. Which eneded in tragedy for the 6 children.
People like Philpott whilst yes they do live on benefits but come on they are getting money "elsewhere". That's why they can afford everything and live.
Of course not every one who bucks the system goes to the lenghts he did (thank god). However they do get their money some how and its either cash in hand or something else. These people do get caught however they stick together and don't shop one another.
Now the people who are surviving on benefits alone and doing everything by the book. They do not have Sky TV, Plasma's, Playstation's etc. Unless they are second hand or bought with high interest rates from places like Brighthouse. It really sickens me that people who have become unemployed and are now trying to get back on their feet are tarred with the same brush as the criminal element benefit scroungers.
I personally know of two people who on become unemployed have had to pawn most of their luxury goods as they needed the money to feed themselves and to afford heating for this year. One of them has 3 children, so is he now a "breader".
People like Philpott whilst yes they do live on benefits but come on they are getting money "elsewhere". That's why they can afford everything and live.
Of course not every one who bucks the system goes to the lenghts he did (thank god). However they do get their money some how and its either cash in hand or something else. These people do get caught however they stick together and don't shop one another.
Now the people who are surviving on benefits alone and doing everything by the book. They do not have Sky TV, Plasma's, Playstation's etc. Unless they are second hand or bought with high interest rates from places like Brighthouse. It really sickens me that people who have become unemployed and are now trying to get back on their feet are tarred with the same brush as the criminal element benefit scroungers.
I personally know of two people who on become unemployed have had to pawn most of their luxury goods as they needed the money to feed themselves and to afford heating for this year. One of them has 3 children, so is he now a "breader".
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Disgusting.
The media are just as guilty as anyone, a day does not go by without the red tops printing a story to wind up the taxpayer :rolleyes:
We only have normal bills no hp. And we still. Have to save for things we want. Our neighbours have 3 to 4 holidays a year when we struggle and have to save all year to have one.
I think a lot of people on benefits know how to work the system.
Then on the other hand I know a older gentleman who is on benefits who struggles to put food on his own table.
The system is so wrong.
What sort of holidays though ? When we were unemployed we had holidays, tents in fields in the middle of February, or we were invited to go with relatives who paid for us.
As for luxury goods someone else mentioned, we had a car, tv etc that we had worked for years to pay for and felt we would be daft to sell them when we could be back in work shortly. Also sky etc on contract as it isn't so easy to get out of contracts you have started in better times.
Just wondered what you meant by we started in better times.?
Not many caravan holidays are expensive - where I live the pitches are pretty cheap (in comparison to a hotel room or B&B). I could do a caravan holiday pretty cheap, especially going 'off season', take your own food, toiletries etc, cheap pitch for a weekend. Some caravan sites are pricey, but if you go for one which doesn't have many facilities then it's pretty cheap, boring, but cheap.
And the PP meant 'we started in better times' - you (the general you) take out Sky when you have money, it's not easy to cancel the contracts later without incurring extra costs sometimes.......not specifically talking about your situation. That's how I took it anyway.
They've played the system very well and have made it work for them.
We also know people who have been made redundant who are now on benefits, and because they haven't been in 'the system' from the start they are finding it a real struggle.
There's something broken when it pays to be a long term benefit claimant as opposed to working and paying into the system, where you get shafted if you lose your job.
I have a friend who's never worked and has a one year old car, and has a life of riley. He's now looking for a job because those 'bastards in goverment' (his words) are starting to make it harder for him.
It's a strange world we live in.
Yes I understand about contracts and having to carry on with them until they end.
Tbh I think most people will think, and also a lot of people on benefits will think that the whole system that is set in place is wrong. A lot of people like above person said don't want to work.
I don't blame them people its the system. If the goverment was paying us to cover what we earn I'm sure we would want to stay at home.
he did it because he wanted a bigger house at the taxpayers expense
time to stop paying people to keep having kids that wont amount to anything buy crime and sitting on the dole
we import enough dead legs to have even more
and by that do you mean you live in a cardboard box outside dixons
We were evicted from our cardboard box, we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
But it becomes our responsibility when they then do the exact same thing in 15 years time . Because they will just do what there parents have done before them.
I know a few people like that. None of them friends I might add. One has never worked a day in his life and he's about 40 years old. He spent his life on sickness benefits and is worried that his cushy life might end. Another enjoys his rounds of golf whilst on sickness benefits. Its a hard life!
Nice of you to have pre-judged the children like this. I guess you're happy that some of them won't now live to become adults? They would have been a drain on taxpayers after all.
I'm just glad the police didn't feel the same way.
Indeed my OH comes from that kind of background. She made sure she was not going down that same route. Apart from having a couple of years off after being made redundant whilst pregnant with our youngest. She has worked since she was 18. Shes now thinking of becoming a TA at the local school.
It's the same old Upper Class policy, set worker against worker.
They have always done it and always will.
They know a lot of us are too stupid to know that they are doing it. It works.
Well thank the lord for Karl Marx and his enlightened socialist teachings, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have known I was being oppressed.
yeah because there are hordes of them working and living productive lives already arn't there
Care to elaborate on this? It seems to me that you are emulating the people you seem to despise.