School Dinners and FAT lazy parents!! Grrr

[Jackleman]

I just watched the BBC News at 10, one of the headline stories is that people can't be arsed to work in case their benefits get taken away - bad enough yes.


However, I was a little confused when they interviewed a woman who was morbidly obese saying she could not go to work as she would not get her benefits, so she does not want to work, however she want's us to pay for her to continue becoming a gravity object in the solar system and she is whinging her daughter won't get free food at school!


Judge for yourself here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17770152


WTF!!

[Jackleman]

martin84 said:

I saw it earlier and what she actually said was she wants to go back to work but its not financially viable. Trust PH to misrepresent somebodies words. This is a major problem that people can end up worse off by going to work. Simpletons would say 'just cut the benefits' but cutting benefits doesnt mean there's any more jobs out there.

Having worked in a Job Centre perhaps I know more about the technicalities of how benefits work than most and its been obvious from the start that over simplification of the system will result in problems like this. The 'cliff edge' effect as it were. Personally I think with the billions we throw at education all meals should be free for all students, but there you go.

Surely it depends on what job she gets as to whether it is viable, she obviously does not aspire to much and I see that as a form of laziness when she is scrounging off the state, basically she is comfortable where she is.

[Jackleman]

eccles said:

Exactly my thoughts when I saw all those bankers getting their bonuses just after their companies were bailed out with public money.

Yes, those scum bankers who, when they earn a million in bonuses pay over £650K in tax per Million on funding the aforementioned fat bird who can't be arsed to get a job, jeez, I hate the financial industry in the UK and how they bleed this country dry. We would be better off with loads of people working in the public sector being hyper-productive as they do and generating loads of wealth for the UK, not to mention how efective they are with helping the UK economy with its balance of payments. If it is one thing you can say about the public sector during these difficult times, it is how they have adapted to modern business practices and understanding the fiscal constraints of the current UK balance sheet. I'm in awe.

[Jackleman]

martin84 said:

Eccles has a point whether you like it or not. The original point was 'just because you can do something doesnt mean you should, what happened to self respect?' which can easily apply to the bankers. Just because they nailed down contracts saying they'd receive bonus' even for bringing down the bank doesnt mean they had to take them. If they had self respect they could've all waived their bonus and given the taxpayer their money back.

You cannot have one rule for the fat bird and different rules for the bankers. You're essentially saying bankers shouldnt be judged by the 'just because you can doesnt mean you should' standard because they're rich and pay lots of tax.

This is just the kind of ill informed stuff that makes my balls itch, more banker bashing. Yes the banks may have triggered the financial crisis, but yes I see no mention of the people who borrowed irresponsibly, nor those who pissed the money up the wall. Yes there were some bad financial institutions, but generally the whole industry is a massive asset the to the UK. I'm sorry for the fat bird, she is just lazy but I do not see why I should foot the bill for her low aspirations in life, there should be a limit on how much these people cost the public. The damage caused by the banks is bad, but allowing this stuff to go on will only propagate the issue further until we end up like Greece!