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The money belongs in the workers pockets not the sick the lame and the lazies.[/quote]
Can't agree with you 100% on that NR. The lazies yes, but not all sick/lame people are lazy.
My wife worked all her life until she was struck down by a stroke that left her totally paralysed down one side and partially sighted. She would dearly love to work and it grieves her that she can no longer do the things that she once could and that she is 100% reliant upon other people to look after her. I'm lucky in that I can continue to work from home and be around to look after her. However because I choose to work we get no assistance from the state other than my wife's DLA. We are eligible for home support, as long as I'm prepared to pay £23.90 an hour to the council - yeah like I can afford that
In your scenario if anything happened to me then my wife would be left to starve and quietly fade away because there would be no welfare state to care for her despite the fact that she has worked and paid in to the system from leaving school to being taken ill.
Being ill does not automatically make you lazy - but I know plenty of really lazy b@st@rds who could work but chose to milk the system for all it's worth instead, these are the people who should be weeded out of society.