Yes, if it reduces my taxes, provides incentives for people to come off social welfare and make a positive impact on society.
Do you really want to be a citizen in a State where a bureaucrat tells someone how they may and may not spend their money ?
Do you really want to be a citizen in a State where a bureaucrat tells someone how they may and may not spend their money ?
God forbid that he might actually spend his redundancy payment, eh?My Oh has recently found himself in the unfortunate position of claiming Jobseekers Benefit.
He has had to go to the social welfare office on a number of occasions to sort out various issues (someone entered his address wrong on a computer, someone else told him the money would be there on a tuesday but then it wasnt and he should have been told friday etc....).
Last time he was there he was in a queue and the guy behind him in the queue was drinking a starbucks coffee and using an iphone to have a loud conversation where he stated that he 'had a bit of a head on him this morning cos he took a few yoks last night, but seeing as he had to get up to sign on for his wages, did yer man on the other end want to go for a few pints at lunchtime'.
The whole office could hear this conversation.
God forbid that he might actually spend his redundancy payment, eh?
God forbid that he might actually spend his redundancy payment, eh?
Ah silly me - he LOOKS like he never had a job, therefore he defintely never had a job. That explains everything.Possibly. But unlikely. He was early 20s. He was dressed in the 'uniform' of shiny tracksuit bottoms and football jersey, tattoos extending up to be visible on the neck, and the hollow chested stoop that one associates with drug abuse.
Ah silly me - he LOOKS like he never had a job, therefore he defintely never had a job. That explains everything.
If he's talking about 'wages', then it sounds to me that he is more used to being employed than unemployed.If he calls his benefit payment "wages" would you still give him the benefit of doubt? If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
But maybe we should stop building public policy based on what one bloke saw in the dole office?
Ah silly me - he LOOKS like he never had a job, therefore he defintely never had a job. That explains everything.
I fully agree that there are people who have never worked a day and live off the State. I'm not so sure that I agree that many of these people are spending on sky and starbucks. Your OH has no idea of the status of any individual in the queue around him, so I don't see how you can come to any conclusions based on observations.Complainer - you might want to believe that the social welfare office is full of people who have worked for years and fallen on hard times. The reality is that there are some scroungers who have never worked a day in their lives and live off the state. My OH told me of one particular example. He was shocked by the numbers of people up there standing in line, drinking starbucks coffees (there is a starbucks nearby) and moaning about having to stand in line, while loudly discussing various activities that people would be disgusted that social welfare money is being spent on - drug use, alcohol use, sky packages, holidays abroad, the latest designer gear etc...
...so I don't see how you can come to any conclusions based on observations.
...neighbours of my in laws are on disability benefit yet the wheelie bin seems to be jammed full of beer bottles every Monday morning.
My Oh has recently found himself in the unfortunate position of claiming Jobseekers Benefit.
He has had to go to the social welfare office on a number of occasions to sort out various issues (someone entered his address wrong on a computer, someone else told him the money would be there on a tuesday but then it wasnt and he should have been told friday etc....).
Last time he was there he was in a queue and the guy behind him in the queue was drinking a starbucks coffee and using an iphone to have a loud conversation where he stated that he 'had a bit of a head on him this morning cos he took a few yoks last night, but seeing as he had to get up to sign on for his wages, did yer man on the other end want to go for a few pints at lunchtime'.
The whole office could hear this conversation.
Have you told your OH that it is quite rude to earwig on other people's conversations?There is plenty that can be picked up on observation in a long queue where you can overhear conversations.
Have you told your OH that it is quite rude to earwig on other people's conversations?
No need for that in my experience - just minding your own business has worked for me in any situation that I've been in.How could he help overhearing them in close queuing quarters with people shouting - would you like me to suggest he wears earplugs when he goes to queue somewhere?
Have you told your OH that it is quite rude to earwig on other people's conversations?
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