truthseeker
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No need for that in my experience - just minding your own business has worked for me in any situation that I've been in.
No need for that in my experience - just minding your own business has worked for me in any situation that I've been in.
to be able to block out the sights and sounds around oneself and enter a world of ones own - and just not hear or see whats going on around you. Sounds about right.
TouchéTo be able to block out the sights and sounds around oneself and enter a world of ones own - and just not hear or see whats going on around you. Sounds about right.
I certainly could not survive on €196 per week. Fair play to anyone who can.
Truthseeker, no offence but your OH needs to find himself some voluntary activities to do. Keep his mind occupied and all of that.
I fully agree with your list of necessities, but I would imagine that controlling what various social welfare payments are used for would cost more than it would save, not to mention creating a whole new level of bureaucracy.I agree with the OP. I made similar points on the overseas aid thread - if someone on benefits can afford cigarettes, alcohol, sky/tv, holidays or a car, then they are receving too much money from the state. If you were in a greenfield situation setting up a new welfare system, the necessities are food, shelter, clothing, medical care and education - anything else is a luxury that may be provided when times are good but shouldn't be when times are bad when the state can't afford it.
Why?
These people are just taking advantage of the situation put in place by the government. If anyone, your 'main dig' should be towards the TDs of this country.
If someone was to offer me free money, I wouldn't turn my nose up at it either.
This would at least be a start.Don't cut benefits - cut the duration of benefits.
No lifetime JSA.
JSA of 5 yrs max across your lifetime.
lol, my OH tells me of one incident that he couldnt help but overhear, I tell it here and Ive people saying he needs to mind his own business and he needs to get some voluntary activities! Its a funny old world. He is kept very busy I assure you.
He is at the end of the day no different to anyone else on that queue.
What a ridiculous arrogant statement
Plenty of people on the dole queue who have been paying taxes for years and now find themselves redundant and trying to live on €196 per week
And you claim that they are the same as those who never bother to work during the good times when we had to import people from around the world to fill job vacancies
What a ridiculous arrogant statement
Plenty of people on the dole queue who have been paying taxes for years and now find themselves redundant and trying to live on €196 per week
And you claim that they are the same as those who never bother to work during the good times when we had to import people from around the world to fill job vacancies
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.
Absolutely , nobody has the right to judge anybody on the dole queue based on assumptions.
He is at the end of the day no different to anyone else on that queue.
The judgement was made on this person......... Maybe it just me but this guy certainly doesn't sound like he has the kind of lifestyle I would aspire to............... More to be pitied than criticised in my opinion, would say the boom just passed him by, he may not even know it ever happened by the posters discription.
Why not - people make personal judgements all day everyday - its part of being human. The only end this particular judgement was going to was in my OHs head!! Its not like he was off making a report to the Peoples Republic on the guy!!
The way people are carrying on here youd swear that they dont have any casual conversation with their partners regarding their day and what they did or saw or whatever.
I agree, but not a very nice aspect of being human.
lol, my OH tells me of one incident that he couldnt help but overhear, I tell it here and Ive people saying he needs to mind his own business and he needs to get some voluntary activities! Its a funny old world. He is kept very busy I assure you.
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