Benefits Street: C4 6th Jan 9pm
koantemplation
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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/benefits-street/episode-guide
Yay, more benefits bashing, from the people that brought us 'Benefits Britain'.
Yay, more benefits bashing, from the people that brought us 'Benefits Britain'.
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Is not something we'll ever hear.
Or informing taxpayers how their hard earned money is being spent and that such places and people exist ?
Are you in it
If there was a celebrity version. I'd watch
Welfare constitutes a tiny amount of public spending, even smaller still when you break it down into those who abuse the system.
The biggest drain on the tax system are the mega-buck corporations who pay minuscule amounts to the government coffers in comparison to their profits.
Living to 85 = 20 years of pension and pension credit, rattling away in council house to large for them, and clogging up our hospitals and doctor's surgeries with their general oldness costs society a whole lot more than a couple of chavs who spend their JSA on **** and cider.
I don't believe that there should be a retirement age - you work until you drop. Retiring is a form of weakness.
Well maybe, but an expose on Starbucks or Tesco not paying enough tax pales into insignificance TV wise compared to following the seedy antics of the well fed underclass of foul mouthed slatterns, sub-crims, drug addicts and unintelligible immigrants.
Don't understand why people think the two balance each other out?
I'm not going to dignify the majority of your post. I will say that I worked for 50+ years and didn't retire until I was forced into redundancy. During my working years I paid taxes, NI and superannuation. Why can't I enjoy my pittance without someone like you resenting me?
Looks almost as bad as the channel 5 programme 'On Benefits and Proud'.
Well there's no shortage of celebrities doing it is there?:D Some even get honours in spite of it.
I think you've taken that post far too seriously.
New year, same old ''Let's vilify everyone on benefits'' rubbish, provoking the Great-British attitude of workers standing on a soapbox to tell everyone around they pay taxes and work...where they're then awarded a gold medal as everyone listening applauds them and throws them a week-long street party...
Yes, I think the original post was more about expressing a sense of irony.
Whereas you are not taking it seriously enough.
Maybe you want to sort out your celeb obsession and get a sense of proportion about what's important in the scheme of things?
£35bn shortfall.
Anyway, won't be watching this, not sure what Channel 4 are 'after', but I can't trust their editing these days, if there's a sensationalist angle they can take.
Whatever comes out if it, I'll end up viewing with suspicion, so best not to bother watching.
My best friend of 25 years took her life due to the benefits changes. She could barely function, but because she could breathe and walk, she should be in work?
The fact that people jeer and think it's a good thing makes me want to strangle people. There are people DYING. Tax avoidance compared to benefits fraud or wastage doesn't even COMPARE.
You what?
Welfare accounts for £112 billion a year (of a total of £720 billion a year)and is only slightly less than healthcare spending.
Whilst I agree with the tax dodgers I do not see how this can be used to effectively say that welfare fraud is acceptable.
I think both issues should be addressed not just one or the other.
Sorry but no! Why should I and millions of others who work to support ourselves (often having to do without certain things to financially survive) be forced to pay even more money to those are able to work but choose not to do so.