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Old 06-05-2012, 07:48 PM #1
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No, I don't want to work but I will feel better earning the money than it just being awarded to me because im to lazy to get a job.
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No, I don't want to work but I will feel better earning the money than it just being awarded to me because im to lazy to get a job.
Is this really how you see people on benefits?

Its actually quite a small minority that are scroungers. Pisses me off that people have this attitude actually because I was on benefits myself at one point and everyone looked down on me too...even though I was doing everything I ****ing could to get better so I could get a job :/
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Is this really how you see people on benefits?

Its actually quite a small minority that are scroungers. Pisses me off that people have this attitude actually because I was on benefits myself at one point and everyone looked down on me too...even though I was doing everything I ****ing could to get better so I could get a job :/
Not everyone but alot of them are.
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Fair enough on that, but you do know I only said alot of them are and not that the majority of them are?

Anyway thank you for the information Kizzy, it does make you realise how misleading the media really is.
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No, I don't want to work but I will feel better earning the money than it just being awarded to me because im to lazy to get a job.
Commendable what you say jf, however the number of real scroungers is a minority indeed of those on benefits, also as to jobs, there are something like at best half a million vacancies in the Country and 2.6 million+ unemployed at present.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that you cannot employ 2.6 million people in only half a million jobs available.So for quite a long while in the foreseeable future millions of people will still need to be on benefits by 'no' fault of their own.
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Does the OP realise that state pensioners are also on benefits? Mums who get tax credits are also on benefits.

That word gets banded about as if its some kind of disease.
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That word gets banded about as if its some kind of disease.
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