This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

[SXGuy]

Im getting sick and tired of this vendetta small minded ignorant people have against others who are claiming benifits.

This outrage against benifit claimaints labeling everyone as people who spend their money on booze, fags and bingo is simply because the ones who are furious are listening to people who have no real idea about anything.

If you smoke 20 a day 7 days a week, on average it costs you £50 a week. Someone on job seekers can not afford to smoke 20 a day, buy booze and play bingo, it just cant happen.

If these same people are then claiming that benifit claimaints are cheating the system and earning money on the side, then i should remind them of a recent study that shows only 0.7% of claimaints are cheating the system.

So you cant have it both ways, either you are wrong in your assessment, or everyone on benifits are cheating the system.

Well you are wrong.

This is just a problem, reaction, solution to try and reduce or restrict what ordinary people are allowed to spend their money on, and it has to stop. We do not want to live in a world where we receive food stamps.

I admit, there are a few people who have never worked a day in their life, claim every benifit under the sun, and manage to buy a 50 inch flat screen tv, but that is not the norm, its those we need to sort out, not everyone else who have found thierselves on benifits through no fault of their own!

Rant over.

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

Actually, statistically the "norm" is living the high life, cheating the system etc

Whether it pisses you off or not mate, sadly its factual.

I've worked in the industry far too long and seen it all too many times before. We're entitled to an opinion.

Smokers buy imports and/or roll-ups. I'd like proof of the 0.7% claim as I've never seen it that low - ever. The norm is around 12% of claimants (cheat) - not 0.7%

[SXGuy]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

Personally i never like statistics because you never know if its a true reflection.

For example, sometimes they suvery 1 section of the country they consider to be general of the whole country and scale it up.

But even if its more like 12%, we still tarnish everyone of them with the same brush.

[pompeyfaith]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

Right lets get some facts and put this argument/indifference in opinion to bed because like you SXGuy/Niddy I am pissed of with it either way.

So today all I will be searching the internet and getting the FACTS not from press and/or media because they never tell the whole story and bend it either way to suit there allegiance.

Citizens put too much faith in what they read or hear from these sources instead of using it as a medium to do there own research into the matter.

Updates to follow

[ken100464]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

I did write a post then deleted it that stats can be made to say anything.

The problem is the press want stories that sell. Be it Kates gazongers or benifit cheats with 1000 a day habits, to bankers with golden balls and politicos with carpeted duck sheds.

Its fact cause the mail(or any other news outfit) writes it. The mail writes it cause it sells and thats what they do sell news.

We consume the news and then our perceptions are changed by the slant that news source has added to it.

The older generation have issues with Germans still. Generations before it was the French. Suspect 2000 years ago while we were all still painted blue and showed our bums the daily druid was harping on about the Romans.

A paper that did articles about Mr and Mrs Smith at no 48 who have a modest mortgage go to church had 2 kids and this weekend will be painting the spare bedroom a fetching shade of magnolia whould not be the most riviting read.

Its never black and white just a murkey shade of grey.

[The Tech Clerk]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

seen a woman walking up the road on couple occasions recently, thinking to myself how old fashioned she is dressed (pity the elderly lady), saw again another day coming out of the Job Centre (complete with a beard etc) must of been signing on for Doe as no Job?

another day saw nearly all the colours of the rainbow (oopppssss no it was some girl & boyfriend hairs) must of been at stud as covered in them carrying 2 x 200 packets of lucky strike fags, ?

saw a lady with 6 kids standing under a sign at a shop sign said "Open All Hours", believe them!

No Comment!

[Meerkat Mob]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

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A paper that did articles about Mr and Mrs Smith at no 48 who have a modest mortgage go to church had 2 kids and this weekend will be painting the spare bedroom a fetching shade of magnolia whould not be the most riviting read.

Oh right, in that case I will cancel the hairdo if they arent coming to take photographs

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

Oh right, in that case I will cancel the hairdo if they arent coming to take photographs

[CAPS ESC]

Re: This vendetta on Benifit claimants has to stop

divide and rule
(or divide and conquer)

In politics and sociology,

The use of this technique is meant to empower the sovereign to control subjects, populations, or factions of different interests, who collectively might be able to oppose his rule. (Wiki)

Our prime-minister is the most blatant exponent of this technique