[Angus]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Many people who become unemployed have worked for decades before they become unemployed, it is a bit unfair to say that all the unemployed should not get benefits.

A great many people are now going to be made unemployed because of greedy Bankers massive mistakes and gambling with investments,coupled with a series of Government mismanagements so rather than the unemployed not getting any benefits it should be they who are made to squeal the loudest with cuts not the ordinary people.

I agree with stopping some foreign aid, especially to India at present, they even have a space programme going on and yet we are giving aid to them.

However I am glad overall the UK is still in the main a caring society and I hope from my generation onwards that we make sure it stays that way,you judge how good a society you are as to how you and how you allow your leaders to treat the poorest and weakest in that society.

Exactly right! Not every unemployed person is a workshy, feckless sponger by any means. As to the highlighted part of your post, I would agree that we treat the poorest and weakest in OUR society well, but we should not be responsible for the world and his wife when we have such limited resources at our own disposal. Charity begins at home, and there are many needy and deserving causes in our country that are struggling to care for others that get no funding whatsoever.