On Benefits & Proud C5 9pm Monday
koantemplation
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Yay more benefits bashing. With people who are proud to be on benefits, who just happen to also be proud enough to want to be on a show about it.
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koantemplation
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It's on channel 5 not c4 on Monday at 9pm.
Are you on it?
Opps thanks for the correction.
I prefer to make films rather than be in them.
Good for you
I'm certainly not ashamed to be on benefits.
As to being proud, well I'm on benefits because of my disability so am proud we have a system that supports the vulnerable.
What disability have you got?
Asperger's Syndrome, with related problems of Agoraphobia, anxiety and depression etc.
Ah ok thanks
Same as my hard working husband then, managed to keep a job from the age of 15 until he had a stroke then took a year to get over that and back to work again, Now waiting for either a knee replacement or if as has been suggested the hospital can't afford that his leg to be removed. He will I have no doubt be back to work ASAP after that too.
Just shows what a difference having caring family and friends makes.
What caring family and friends ? he only has me really as he cannot really function in a friends environment.
Where were his family when he was working at 15?
At least he has you. Was you with him when he had a stroke?
His family couldn't cope with him hence he left school and got a job to support himself. Yes we married quite young and I was by his side as he had the stroke. Not that it has anything to do with this TV programme as we were mortified to be on benefits and got off them as soon as we could. As soon as he could find his way home reliably (his memory was shocking after the stroke) he went out and found a job. Anything rather than claim benefit.
Well that's your morality system.
I see no shame in being on benefits. If society wants disabled people to work then it can change to make it much easier for disabled people to work.
Instead it makes it harder.
Good God...theyre suggesting his leg be removed on financial grounds given the cost of knee replacement ? That's outrageous.
We don't see his apsergers as a reason for him not to work, his knee however will stop him soon I think until he can get any sort of operation to stop the pain as that really is disabling him.
I have MS it's a matter of pride and needing something to get out and about for that has kept me working all these years. It's important if a person can work to get out there and do it. It helps in so many ways not just financially.
Aspergers is helped in our opinions by confronting it and making the effort to try and beat it. It's a fight worth having each day as he is a proud man who is winning all the time.
Asperger's is nothing to be beaten.
The problem is how other people deal with it, not how the person who has it, deals with it.
It's about working with the best qualities of Asperger's such as being able to keep to one thing and work in detail at that one thing.
My problems are not because of Asperger's but because of how other people have dealt with me, badly, because of their problems not mine.
I'm fighting for better things than to be able to work a minimum wage job.
Its a wonder they did not call it "my big fat gypsy" " on benefits and proud"
More dross i will not be watching.:mad:
The show is on Channel 5, I got the title wrong, have asked the mods to change it.
I bet they are including the pensions figure in that quote.
This comment from the site says the same thing,
Ok still dross trhough.
Channel 4 or 5 soon there will be no difference both have realty TV show churn out.:mad:
Yes and also do not forget in work benefits claimants such as tax credits a governemt sub to pi-- poor wages, i wonder if the people who claoim that are "On Benefits And Proud" after a weeks work.