Shocking or caring !I watched it and to be fair both sides tend to raise good arguments, so its hard to come down in support of one or the other.
I appreciate that each case is probably different of course.
Although shocking to hear that a husband and wife with 2 kids (or was it 3?) are lifting nearly €40k annually. Thats some money for doing sweet FA, and I can see why many have no interest in working.
I love all these guys who say the unemployed should be cleaning out rivers, sweeping roads, painting homes of the sick. saving the harvest etc etc.
Suddenly, these guys become unemployed themselves and guess what - Their views change instantly.
It seems a lot of people never really mature and expect some sort of mammy to take care of them. I'm sorry, but that's not the way the world works. You have to make things happen for yourself. Expecting a handout and waiting for a handout will just result in failure.
What I find interesting about these shows is the people on the side of the welfare folk (and many of the welfare folk) seem to expect the world to take care of them. As I watched the show I found myself shouting at the TV "go back to college and get an education!" or "set up a business!" or even "take responsiblity for your life!!".
It seems a lot of people never really mature and expect some sort of mammy to take care of them. I'm sorry, but that's not the way the world works. You have to make things happen for yourself. Expecting a handout and waiting for a handout will just result in failure.
I watched the show and found it very frustrating. All Pat Kenny did was hop from one person to another, asking them to voice the prepared piece they had on camera. There was no discussion or counter-arguing. The programme was unproductive as a debating forrum. The few salient points I heard were;
1. SW and FAS work at odds with each other. SW try to activate people but FAS don't 'report' those weho won't engage with them to SW so there are no sanctions.
2. Politicians interfere with the SW system by trying to get constituents benefits they are inherently not entitled to.
3. There is no incentive to climb above a minimum income and get out of the 'poverty trap'.
4. In recession times, SW-dependent people become targets as 'spongers'; the 30k still on the dole when we were importing workers were never held to task at the time, now we question teh motives of the 400k unemployed when there are no jobs.
yep... typoWas it not 130,000 ??
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