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Less off a strain on society keeping a dole scrounger in the house.
Now I know a lot of people who claim unemplyment benifit have been put in that position through no fault of thier own and would do anything to get a job, they are not so much of a strain.
But well Lisa's just an idle dole waller.
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Having just lost my job 3 months ago, this is the first time I have sign on in many years it isn't easy getting another job in the current climate!!
There are plenty of other 'issues' that are straining the tax payer and the council tax payer (I still have to pay!) and I can assure you £64.30 does not give you a basic living. I am sure she would want to work, just like me!
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64 pounds per week? What a waste of money for many reasons really!
That money could be better spent on creating jobs, going on educating our children or NHS!
64 pounds per week isnt helping anyone at all, you will struggle from week to week on that and most probably end up being depressed.
If the government didnt blow all our money on the banks who create this mess in the first place with bank charges and their bonuses England would be a beter place today, do we really need RBS and Northern Rock...no we don't.
Though Barclays bank fund terrorism with their arms investment across the world and mainly in Africa, they are doing financially well! I have also noticed many on the dole get their funds via barclays bank so in some ways the tax payers have bailed them out!
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Just out of curiosity, if we had lost Northern Rock and RBS, what would your position be on the many hundreds, possibly thousands, who would have become unemployed?
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By bailing them out which has cost tax payers HUNDREDS of billions, thus many public sector jobs have to be cut, standards across many things need to be cut, and banks refusing to lend anyone money whilst still creaming of the billions in bonuses....how many jobs have been lost? Cuts both ways, however if the government injected that many in public sector work, paid people's mortgages off (tax payers only) and created new and saved jobs..life would be much different to how we know it. This isnt a real ressecession it is a man made fat cats farce one going on, tis is why everything is still expensive. Just fats cats trying to recycle their wealth!
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The banks were undeniably at fault, and I really, really hope they learn from their mistakes and this huge bonus culture stops, but I don't know that the government had much option but to bail them out. They needed to keep banks solvent and to get them lending again. If a bank of their size went under the effects and repercussions would have been terrible, as well as people losing their homes, savings, jobs ...
However, this bail-put money did not really come from some government pot waiting to be spent elsewhere but was borrowed
These are bad economic times ...