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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Because I think of others as well as myself. I have friends that are going through the system at the moment, struggling..not sitting eating 6 course meals and drinking fine wine like the papers would have you believe. I have an ill mother in law who cannot leave the house alone(or at all sometimes). She cries when the phone rings and panics with a knock on the door. Yet has been told she is fit to work and will probably have her money stopped any day now for not seeking work that she can't do. Despite working 30 odd years before becoming ill..now people see HER as a scrounger because the daily mail tells them to. I see first hand what this stuff is doing to people and I hate it. I see the dark side in my everyday life, thats how I can look at things that way.
I am also scared of what the country will be like when Skye grows up. I'm not well off..I am comfortable, but I don't have enough money to leave her so that if she falls on hard times, she wont be stuck working fulltime for dole money.
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This is my issue too. People often wonder why I get so enraged by schemes like this when "they don't affect me" because I am employed... But the bottom line is, I don't want my girls growing up in a country where slave wages are "ok". And I worry about a world where people are only bothered by injustice when it affects them personally.
I also know that there's no such thing as "secure" these days, unless you have a savings pot that you could live on indefinitely. My best friends dad - a civil engineer of 30 years experience - was recently unemployed for 9 months after unexpectedly losing a £100,000+ per year job. He literally went to work one morning and was told to go home as the company had gone under.
Working 30 hours a week for JSA is obscene. Minimum wage is around 6.50 an hour, JSA is about ,£70 a week... so, getting people to work for 10 hours per week - fine! This is 10 hours of minimum wage work, it's fair enough. but 30 hours for 70 pounds? that's less than £2.50 an hour. it's obscene.