Why do I have to pay for all the lazy people on benifits?

eifionrefail

I agree, I'm also fed up paying for these scroungers(disabled and sick excluded).Many have children too, which are thrown money at (our money) by the government.How many chavs have you seen with brand new baby buggies, cigarette in hand and satellite TVs all paid for by us.Who's fault is it that they are unmarried mothers (single parents?) Have they never heard of contraception.? (Granted there are some widows but we are not talking about them.)I don't mind ensuring that people and children have enough to eat but to provide these people with cigarettes and luxuries..no way.Give them food and clothing vouchers not money.Child benefit should be for the first child only, that would stop these irresponsible parasites procreating at our expense.If they had to pay for their own children their families would be much smaller.
They don't have to pay rent etc but working people earning over a certain amount have to pay for everything ..including other people's children.
Googlywo..no, pensioners have worked all their lives to provide a fund for themselves in old age, the lazy haven't.

helplessromatic2000

Not everyone who gets assistance is lazy.

runs_with_scissors

People on benefits are not necessarily lazy. There's lots of veterans and other disabled people who qualify.

It's also in the Bill of Rights to provide for the welfare of the people. That's one of the things the government is there to do.

Kel Kel

Well, you have to keep in mind. Not ALL people on benefits are lazy. But I agree. There are A LOT of people who take WAY advantage of the system! It is pretty frusterating!

angie

I'm on benefits but I'm not lazy I'm a carer for my son and unable to work although i would love to , so please don't tar every one with the same brush, people like me are on benefits not through choice but through necessity

bessy_1962

I agree with you about the people that scrounge off benefits and i think that is really wrong and the people that work loads of hours a week like you and others in the community should have the advantages that they get.
However, don't tar all people on benefits with the same brush. Not all of them are just trying to get as much money as possible, some of them need it. And if that person was you, you wouldn't appreciate some-one sayin,
'Why do i have to pay for all the lazy people on benefits'.
x.

cassidy

Blame the government, its their rules that keep the scroungers taking your hard earned money off you.
I have retired now, worked and paid in to the system all my life
and know the feeling well when deductions are taken from wages going to help pay for scroungers. Genuine people I accept, but when you see people with nothing wrong with them in bed until afternoon every day it becomes sickening to see a government allowing this to go on.

doughnut1002001

okay,

well not everyone who are on these benefits are lazy people,
look at old people they have worked all there lives for there rubbish state pension that they are finding it hard to live on.

what about people who are disabled and are housebond, and are in pain all day, ? single mums finding it hard to get a job, because they need child care, take your pick everyones got a different story.

i know you might be finding it hard struggling with your income working all hours, and getting very little out of it after the rents paid ect, but most of us are in the same boat.

Baby Nolan arrived Apr 18, 2009!

Some people on benefits are disabled and aren't able to work, some are recently widowed women with children to take care of, some have recently been divorced and it will take time to get back on her feet enough to provide for her children, some got laid off from their job, etc etc......just be glad that you aren't in any of these situations and that you are physically able to work and actually have a job. Be glad that you aren't a grieving widow or a single mother with innocent children to take care of. Count your blessings.

Pieface The Fake Plastic Geordie

Thanks very much, I appreciate you working hard to keep me in cigs and cheap cider, you're a good un, you really are.

taz c

Some people live on Disability Benefits & can't work. If you feel you would like to tar everyone with the same brush, you will be making yourself VERY unpopular.

Googlypants

Yeah and all those people on pensions too! How dare they work and then expect us to pay for them out of our taxes just because they got old!

I suspect if you ever get made redundant you'll regret saying that!

I've worked 100 hour weeks to pay the bills and I didn't mind the 20 quid or so that went into the welfare system because I knew that one way or another I would have to use it before I died.

sue

i agree with angie, i am also a carer for my disabled son, and didnt choose to be on benefits, i married and waited 7 years before having kids, and worked throughout that time, and then gave up work to have kids, and then found out my husband was the biggest prat, and couldnt cope with kids, so i had to divorce him and go on benefits. Saying that i would not be without my son, as i love him dearly and him being 'special' is what makes him the child he is. I have also remarried, but unfortunately my hubby has had to retire due to ill health, so please dont tar us all with the same brush, i would love to work, but have to stay at home

sirmrmagic

What benefits are you talking about? SSI is tax paid as is food stamps and welfare is too, but welfare that is paid to a woman can be collected from the father of the child. SSDBI is paid from the persons lifetime earnings and medicare part B for hospital stays is collected from the beneficiary($93.50 at this time), part A is collected while the person is working. VA benefits are tax based as well. I receive SSDBI AND VA benefits, want to call me lazy?I EARNED THIS THE HARD WAY been places you could only point to on a map and I started working when I was 8 years old, Doctors said I could not work any more. I am 51 and I know what WORKING MEANS, so before you group people together as LAZY, you might want to talk to some of them personally and perhaps they can share their story as how they ended up on benefits, NOT LAZY......Social Security Disability benefit insurance(SSDBI) I had to get a Lawyer to get this,it cost me $5000.00 out of my back pay, it is a lot harder to get SSI or Social Security.

little weed

Because that's what this damned Socialist Government stands for ..... squeeze the normal ,hardworking person from every directon possible until the pips squeak and then fritter all the money away on dossers, scroungers and immigrants. Those that squander all their money away and never save for the future are looked after by this Government whilst the rest of this hardworking population find it harder and harder to make ends meet. It seems that if you claim one benefit you get them all thrown at you !!!

bullwinkle

People wind up "in the poor house" for a lot of different reasons. Some never recover. There is also a threshold issue which is seldom addressed. To get on welfare you have to jump over a kind of "need hurdle." The benefits organizations strip people of their dignity before allowing them to take advantage of the "free stuff." On the one hand, it stops laggards who just want to rip off the system. On the other hand, the truly needy develop a kind of adversarial relationship with the people who are there to help them. This mutual distrust keeps the needy in a position where they feel they deserve the handouts they get (because of what they were put through to get it) and reinforces a mentality that makes them willing to sit back and feed at the public trough forever, rather than pull themselves back up into the mainstream of society. Yet another problem is that when these people do try to mainstream, the government cuts them off immediately, rather than transitioning them. In practical terms, they usually have to actually become poorer than they were on welfare in order to get off of it. So, is welfare too good to those who are on it? Should welfare have a time limit? (see Michigan's "2 year" experiment). Frankly, my personal view is this: male or female - your 13th welfare payment comes with surgery to end your reproductive capacity. Strong medicine, indeed. My fellow students in law school were not pleased at the suggestion. But 20 years later, I am still of this opinion.

London Upstart

What are benifits? Are they the same as benefits only spelt incorrectly.

Basically have you ever heard of the Phillips Curve? The lower unemployment goes the higher inflation goes. If those on the dole all found jobs, your wages will not go as far, it is widely agreed in economic circles that it is neither possible or desirable to have unemployment at zero. Therefore those lazy people are actually performing a benefical economic function.

Having signed on the dole five times in the last year, I can give you some comfort that it may be possible to subsist on benefits, but impossible to have any decent standard of living and as boring as hell if it goes on for too long, hence the reason why I didn't sign on for longer than three weeks. If there is any great incentive to not work I haven't come across it yet.

naplusultra

Have you ever lived in a deprived area? been a disabled partners carer and watched her suffer pain.? After 35 years working. I gave up my job to look after my partner. We survive on Â£90.10p per week. Please don't tar us all with the same brush. Concentrate your anger on the single mums who tie up 3 bed council houses. Yes system is abused, but 95% are caught.

Lady Claire of Current Events

I dont mind paying for people who truly cant work but when you see all the ones that are faking injuries and all the drug addicts/alcoholics that get extra money it makes my blood boil.

I am at college and my boyfriend is on a low wage and we struggle but we dont claim any benefits (I have to pay my loan back with interest before any one says anything about scrounging students) - we pay full rent and sometimes at the end of the month we dont have money left for essentials like proper food and either have to borrow money off people or eat plain rice or pasta with a bit of tomato sauce.

There is so many junkies and alkies where we live and you see them getting extra money all the time and flats paid for. And then theres the ones that totally scam their benefits and end up being able to afford 3 holidays a year when I am struggling to pay my bus fare to college.

What makes me mad aswell is that one of my best friends is a single mother who would love to work but she has a back problem (one her discs is slowly wasting away, leaving her in constant pain) and she has applied for DLA numerous times and they turn her down because she manages to look after herself and make sure her daughter is always clean and tidy as well as her house. But then you watch programmes about benefit cheats on tv and they always manage to get it and run around working on the fly.

Christi_79

Because there are some who really need it and are not just being lazy. I agree that there should be a crackdown, perhaps investigate everyone on any type of government benefit whatsoever. But that will just create even higher costs until the investigation is finished, and also the burocracy involved would make your little head spin.

max_sterling003

Okay stop buying the prescriptions from places like that, theyre no good. Sometimes people run into bad luck and need those things. Im sure its not something you want to hear but, I never wanted to go to the government for help like that because it really makes you feel like part of you is gone. I know Im not useless but not being able to find a something suitable that I can get paid for doesnt help with making you feel good about yourself. I know there are people out there that do take advantage of it but there are good people too that wish they werent in that situation. Sometimes bad things just happen and you just try to keep going with it because you got no choice.

Sorry, Hon.
It's called Socialized Government.
Sorry again. There's more to come.

trentrockport

I'm sure there are *some* people on welfare who really need it. But, based on what I've observed, it seems that for every person on welfare who really can't work, there are ten people who could be working who instead are just lolling around collecting benefits. And let's not forget the illegal aliens who come here if for no other reason because our welfare system is infinitely more generous than Mexico's. It's sickening.

debbie xx

i can sympathizewith you taxes are way to high annoying isnt it

wear_a_tall_hat

well u have to because not everyone out there is lazy. and it means that if ever you struggle or have a disability you will be looked after too. also not all tax is paid to these people. laws are being inforced now to get mums/dads back into work after they have had children. the gvt is working on it!
and also money you pay goes into the nhs and other stuff. we all have to do it!

larry B

Don't blame you I'm tired of it to, but some really need and others take advantage of it. Some have better homes then I do and have better cars, Shame our welfare needs to look in to it better then they do and weed out them that take advantage ..

Walt

Because that's the law. Instead of venting about it here, do something to change the law to suit your personal needs.

cpupparo

Iam so sick of welfare mammys being in the store and haveing all kinds of junk in their carts including soda and chips that are paid for by food stamps. Then they go and buy ciggaretes with taxpayer money. Theyalso get free housing ,,medical care, etc. Then their boyfriends live with them. No wonder our country is bankrupt!!!!

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