mountain_tiger
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Link to original post: [drupal=2206]The benefits system needs changing... really.[/drupal]
OK, so before I start off, I'm not slagging off the benefits system in general. Personally, I think it's a very good idea to help out people who are unemployed through no fault of their own and preventing them (and their children) from suffering. But it needs some revamping, because as it stands, it doesn't seem very fair.
I mean, think of it this way. We all know the housing market isn't too great at the moment, so if a hard-working couple, in their mid 20s let's say, who have a decent income between them, yet no children, try and get a house, chances are they wouldn't be able to, and if they did they'd have to pay very high mortgage payments (probably the banks trying to fill their debts).
Yet if there's another couple, who have never had a proper job in their life between them, wasting their money on cigarettes and alcohol want a house, and they have children, then they can practically get a council house just like that. Granted, it wouldn't be particularly nice as such, but it's still a house.
Now tell me, does that sound fair to you? Why should a couple that work hard, save and spend responsibly be unable to get a house, whereas a couple that don't work at all and waste the money that they do have on addictions can get a council house just like that almost? Why not give the council houses to people that actually worked hard, but then got made redundant and couldn't afford their old house (i.e. the people that actually deserve them)?
Oh, and as another example, take this family, who claim that they're 'too fat to work':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ay-22000-worth-of-benefits-is-not-enough.html
To be fair, some people are genuinely fat through no fault of their own, yet by the sounds of it this lot just eat far too much food. And they expect hard-working taxpayers to foot the bill for them. Disgusting, it really is.
There are many other examples of people scamming the system and the like, but I think I'll stop there before I get too annoyed.
tl;dr Benefits should only go to the people that actually need and deserve them.
OK, so before I start off, I'm not slagging off the benefits system in general. Personally, I think it's a very good idea to help out people who are unemployed through no fault of their own and preventing them (and their children) from suffering. But it needs some revamping, because as it stands, it doesn't seem very fair.
I mean, think of it this way. We all know the housing market isn't too great at the moment, so if a hard-working couple, in their mid 20s let's say, who have a decent income between them, yet no children, try and get a house, chances are they wouldn't be able to, and if they did they'd have to pay very high mortgage payments (probably the banks trying to fill their debts).
Yet if there's another couple, who have never had a proper job in their life between them, wasting their money on cigarettes and alcohol want a house, and they have children, then they can practically get a council house just like that. Granted, it wouldn't be particularly nice as such, but it's still a house.
Now tell me, does that sound fair to you? Why should a couple that work hard, save and spend responsibly be unable to get a house, whereas a couple that don't work at all and waste the money that they do have on addictions can get a council house just like that almost? Why not give the council houses to people that actually worked hard, but then got made redundant and couldn't afford their old house (i.e. the people that actually deserve them)?
Oh, and as another example, take this family, who claim that they're 'too fat to work':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ay-22000-worth-of-benefits-is-not-enough.html
To be fair, some people are genuinely fat through no fault of their own, yet by the sounds of it this lot just eat far too much food. And they expect hard-working taxpayers to foot the bill for them. Disgusting, it really is.
There are many other examples of people scamming the system and the like, but I think I'll stop there before I get too annoyed.
tl;dr Benefits should only go to the people that actually need and deserve them.
