What the heck is happening to this globe/ country

[Welder]

The situation is crazy here in the U.K.
The benefit system is so easy to use and abuse.
To just keep giving money to people encourages them to never work.
It would make sense to offer every person seeking benefits a job earning something above the basic money.
Jobs (if the person has no skills) could include manual work, like cleaning litter from streets. If they say it is beneath them, they should be told they will not get any benefit.
The scrounger who is looking an easy life will look for better types of work.

I still see huge swaths of poverty in the UK. Real poverty, affecting real hardworking families. IMHO, 99% of the people who require help in this country do not 'choose' benefits. We have a family friend who's a doctor who worked on disability claims. She was told to find ways to reject people, even people who needed help and guidance. She went home every night for the first months and cried herself to sleep over the injustice of it all. She had claimants who she was forced to reject commit suicide as a consequence. In the end she started helping and advising people instead and as a consequence was not asked to renew her contract - got fired.

The media have whipped up a storm of protest in normal folk by portraying a few idiots as 'typical' of people on benefits simply to drive sales of tomorrows chip paper . It is utter bullsh1t.

By taking the 'lazy scrounger, lazy b4stard' approach, it somehow makes us feel better but research by the Joseph Rountree Foundation some while ago found that something like 60% of the people in the UK were just three pay packets away from having to claim benefits. By that they mean if you lost your income for three months you'd be in those poor s0ds positions.

Poverty is different to behaving like a scal. Poverty can affect any one of us so, IMHO, we should be looking at it less like some self inflicted disease and more like simply **** luck which could happen to any of us at any time.

My apologies

 

[Millsy 82]

I still see huge swaths of poverty in the UK. Real poverty, affecting real hardworking families. IMHO, 99% of the people who require help in this country do not 'choose' benefits. We have a family friend who's a doctor who worked on disability claims. She was told to find ways to reject people, even people who needed help and guidance. She went home every night for the first months and cried herself to sleep over the injustice of it all. She had claimants who she was forced to reject commit suicide as a consequence. In the end she started helping and advising people instead and as a consequence was not asked to renew her contract - got fired.

The media have whipped up a storm of protest in normal folk by portraying a few idiots as 'typical' of people on benefits simply to drive sales of tomorrows chip paper . It is utter bullsh1t.

By taking the 'lazy scrounger, lazy b4stard' approach, it somehow makes us feel better but research by the Joseph Rountree Foundation some while ago found that something like 60% of the people in the UK were just three pay packets away from having to claim benefits. By that they mean if you lost your income for three months you'd be in those poor s0ds positions.

Poverty is different to behaving like a scal. Poverty can affect any one of us so, IMHO, we should be looking at it less like some self inflicted disease and more like simply **** luck which could happen to any of us at any time.

My apologies

From my time carrying out council work I pretty much noticed that yes there were people in desperate need but they were in the minority. The majority of the people I worked for were the council trash you see on the telly. The kind that aspired to be off the TV show shameless.

You could guarantee that almost every house you worked in you worked in a haze of smoke from their 40 a day habit and you would have to move all the empty cans from in front of the boiler. The majority of houses had sky and most had half decent TV's.

You would then get one where they would beg and plead with you to come at a certain time because they were one of the stupid ones that worked full time couldn't get help and they were the ones that struggled.

 

[Best]

I still see huge swaths of poverty in the UK. Real poverty, affecting real hardworking families. IMHO, 99% of the people who require help in this country do not 'choose' benefits. We have a family friend who's a doctor who worked on disability claims. She was told to find ways to reject people, even people who needed help and guidance. She went home every night for the first months and cried herself to sleep over the injustice of it all. She had claimants who she was forced to reject commit suicide as a consequence. In the end she started helping and advising people instead and as a consequence was not asked to renew her contract - got fired.

The media have whipped up a storm of protest in normal folk by portraying a few idiots as 'typical' of people on benefits simply to drive sales of tomorrows chip paper . It is utter bullsh1t.

By taking the 'lazy scrounger, lazy b4stard' approach, it somehow makes us feel better but research by the Joseph Rountree Foundation some while ago found that something like 60% of the people in the UK were just three pay packets away from having to claim benefits. By that they mean if you lost your income for three months you'd be in those poor s0ds positions.

Poverty is different to behaving like a scal. Poverty can affect any one of us so, IMHO, we should be looking at it less like some self inflicted disease and more like simply **** luck which could happen to any of us at any time.

My apologies

The folk I see on full benefits are just chancers. They know every way to work the system.
Typically they also love to have some ‘disability’ or ‘illness’, temporary or otherwise, so to claim more benefits.
Also have a lot of children as that gets you more benefits and priority housing.
Doesn’t matter you are so ill that you are unable to work allegedly, you can still somehow have sex, take holidays, go to sports events, drive luxury cars, frankly everything other than employment.
Then at least some of the children often will have a ‘disability’ as that gets more money. That part is easy, - you just read up on a mental disability and take your child to your GP and list the ‘symptoms’ and the GP must put that in the file.
If the person you are living with has a ‘illness/disability’ then you can also claim a weekly care allowance.

Something I have mentioned before, -
I watch people walking with a crutch, but notice their weight is going fully onto each leg as they walk and the crutch seems to be non supporting.
Keeps the photos looking good.

 

[hammers4spanner]

From my time carrying out council work I pretty much noticed that yes there were people in desperate need but they were in the minority. The majority of the people I worked for were the council trash you see on the telly. The kind that aspired to be off the TV show shameless.

You could guarantee that almost every house you worked in you worked in a haze of smoke from their 40 a day habit and you would have to move all the empty cans from in front of the boiler. The majority of houses had sky and most had half decent TV's.

You would then get one where they would beg and plead with you to come at a certain time because they were one of the stupid ones that worked full time couldn't get help and they were the ones that struggled.

Most of the social housing i went in were literally disgusting ebola dripping off the boiler cover.
Walk in first thing i would hear is my boiler is crap, i want a new one . Followed by kitchen and bathroom is rubbish and want a new one. Then how long will i be ?

Then when you are finished they would then phone the office to moan about something i done . I have little time for these sort of people feed of society offer nothing back. Thing is so many are like this now .