The Fun Police Strike Again

[bigpaul]

(4 August 2012, 10:40)Prepaday Wrote: My family and I have been on benefits for almost 2 years now My 7 year old has spesh needs, I can't get a job which allows me to take a day off a week so I can take her to her appointments. My fella broke his leg, was in cast for 6 months, 3 in half cast, had op for a rod, now on physio....Without benefits, we would be screwed.
Please don't label us "Scroungers " with the same pricing gun
I use my benefits to live on and to buy things for prepping, yes the money is good but I never asked for the amount the govt give me, I would be grateful with just half the amount, The govt throw money away like it's confetti and it's wrong but without it, I can't survive... not now and certainly not in the future x

i believe you misinterpreted my post, i was referring to people who have NEVER worked, there are plenty of people(myself included) who have had no choice but to be on benefits for one reason or another but we have all worked for a living for some part of our lives, what i meant was people who dont work and never will work but call others "suckers" for working whilst they live off the state. anyway that was not the point of my post but rather that this current "society" is not self sufficient, at any point the imports (of food principally) could stop..for any reason, and then what would happen? we certainly cant feed over 60 million people from what is grown on this very small island. we can feed about 16 million from what we grow as a nation, that means over 44 million would go without? we need a large "event" to rebalance the scales.