Do people who are on benefits all their life cheese you off?

Question

I'm talking heroin addicts who can't work, single mothers who have children for 30 years just so they don't have to work and all those people who are too depressed, stressed and tired to work.

Do you begrudge them their council houses and meagre handouts?

Do you think that by not working their children grow up to be little sods and so continue the family trend?

Or am I just being nasty?

Answer 1

Yes!

But maybe it suits the Government because since there are not enough jobs for everybody it enables them to massage the unemployment figures.

Answer 2

You are being nasty,but it's nasty to exploit people too in the way the natives are pushed out of the jobs market.

Answer 3

No your not being nasty it kinda winds me up too!

Answer 4

you are being nasty

what about the super rich businessmen who dont pay their taxes fully?

they cheat us all out of way way way more money than benefit cheats do

theyre the biggest crooks, not benefit cheats

Answer 5

I agree totally with you i believe that goverment should help those who need it but there are peole that take the mickey, and know how to work the system. I mean I myself will be on benfits in 2 weeks as i will be getting maturnity allowance from the goverment, housing benefit and tax credits, but in return im 20 but have been working and paying tax 4 the last 4 years, my partner works hard  and is the same and contributes, we rent our house privately and I will be returning to work once after  9 months. which i believe to be fair. i don't intend having an more children to enable me to instill good morals and ethics into the one child i have. In comparison my partners sister has a brand new council flat, pays no rent or c.tax, doesn't work even though she is capable has a child with her husband who does not work either. and they are always skint yet they have no bills cept food gas and electric and the debts they have built up themselves. it ridiculous. it makes a mockery of everyting. and for a long time they took more in benefits with less to pay out than me and my partner. who both worked full time.

Answer 6

I don't have time for those that choose to live off benefits.  For those stuck in a downward sprial of not being able to find work because of cheap immigrant labour, I have great sympathy...

Answer 7

Not everybody - only those who really can't be bothered to work because they're too lazy and would rather scrounge.

I don't know what proportion of people on benefits this applies to and no I don't begrudge people who are on benefits who are genuinely unable to work.

As for single parents - I feel sorry for young girls who deliberately get pregnant because they have nothing else worthwhile in their lives, they are being failed by their parents, their schools and the Government.

There would definitely seem to be generations of families who have never worked  -  their kids don't stand a chance.  I hope the benefits system radically is shaken up, but I don't hold out much hope of change.

Answer 8

I agree with you and I think people who don't agree are most probably the ones you are talking about!

Answer 9

No you arent being nasty.  While there are a good many people who are on benefits who need them (who cant work through ill health) there are many many people who leech off the system.  

I work two jobs so that I can afford to live a decent life and I know of people who constantly moan about the lack of money they get for sitting about not doing anything.  They complain that they cant get a job, but are suddenly too good when McDonalds or a supermarket is hiring (despite not having any qualifications and not working since they left school).  Makes me sick when I see how much tax I pay to keep these layabouts.

People with depression do not choose to be depressed.  Junkies choose their way of life, so should pay for their way of life.  

I live in a housing association flat and I have always paid full rent on it.

Answer 10

No, you're NOT being nasty, I think the same way too.

I live in the most beautiful Cornish village. I have my own little bungalow, but my daughter and her husband cannot afford the house prices here,(it's an area of extreme outstanding beauty and VERY expensive) She rents a council house, in a little cul-de-sac in the village, and has 2 lots of scroungeing neighbours, which insist on making everyone else's lives a misery. Both lots of scumbags are alcoholics, and they "bite the hands that feed them" most nights, by brawling in the street, and keeping working folk up all night. They don't work, so can lie in bed all day, after they've made a nuisance of themselves all night.

My daughter has a special needs child, a 3 year old with Tuberous Sclerosis, a genetic disorder that causes severe epilepsy, and autistic tendencies, and with 3 other children, she gets very little rest, or time to herself, and gets NO help whatsoever from the authority. Opposite her lives one of these "scumbag" "freeloaders" and my daughter has to sit back and watch, as his partner gets respite care for him, whereby a carer comes and "babysits" the alcoholic cretin, whilst she goes on holiday for the week, paid for by guess who?? 4 nights a week, they have a dispute which sprawls out into the street, and the police are called, and the neighbourhood are woken up.

The local council won't help, and these spongers want for nothing. She walks around on sticks when they are due a visit from the disability claims department, and discards them pretty quickly when they've gone, and are never short of money for booze, and ciggies.

I wish the government would get wise to these parasites, but they just go on prospering, when the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet. Sickening isn't it???

Bladette has the right idea. Judgeing by the "thumbs down" it seems they're all on here protesting. Sadly, my daughters husband  works, and cannot afford expensive computers. Sounds about right, doesn't it?????

Answer 11

You are being very nasty!........Thumbs away if you like, it still does not make a difference. Have you or yours been on benefits? Have you or yours ever been on or addicted to drugs?Have you suffered from depression to the point you cannot leave your house? Spiteful is a word that comes to my mind when I read your question. You know you are being nasty, thats why you ended  your Q thus so.

Enjoy all the benefits you have in your life and stop begrudging others theirs, for whatever reason they are on them.......AnnOnnyMouse has the idea and Purple 195.

Answer 12

Apparently, it's a pandemic.

Yeah, nothing annoys me more. It actually sets my teeth on edge when I see them raping the system and raising their kids to follow suit. I mean, have some pride! Get off your lazy butt and contribute. Every able-bodied person should be doing SOMETHING. The only people who should be recieving benefits are those who truly cannot limp, drag or wheel their way into work.

Answer 13

I think 90% of people would agree with you

Answer 14

I begrudge those who have been able to get away with laziness for many years.  I also begrudge drug addicts/alcoholics getting benefits and free housing as they have got themselves into this state after all the warnings etc. it is a lifestyle choice.

I thihk that if you ever get bad depression you will never again think of it as an easy excuse to get out of work.  I have bi-polar (manic depression) and it is horrible! Think of your worst ever day and have it for weeks on end, punctuated by 'highs' where you are completely out of control - but don't realise it - followed by even worse lows.  it is impossible to work through this - you are a danger to yourself and others.  

I know lots of single parents and on the whole, their kids are OK.  It is the ones who live in extended groups on the roughest estates that seem to be the little monsters round where I live!

Answer 15

yep i agree with you, it bites!!

Answer 16

I dont have much of an opinion on it, although I do think you are not looking at it from both sides, you dont know what its like to be them...

Obviously I agree that if they can work then they should but if they really cant I wouldnt want to make them or see them starve or whatever.

I think the benefit system does help alot of genuine people and as long as they are still getting the help they need.. thats all that matters.

Answer 17

I agree too, my friends and i were talking about this over the weekend. They were asking if i ever thought about giving up work to go on benefits.

Think the Government have it completely wrong, need to start encouraging people to work, rather that stop at home. Kind of don't blame them for stopping at home if they get more money but i couldn't do it.

Answer 18

I think we all know the difference between genuine claimants and scroungers. If you are genuinely disabled or sick, then yes, you are entitled to long term benefits.

But, as we all know, there are too many now, producing endless kids, whilst on benefit. No-one with half a brain cell, would keep having  kids they could not support!!

And obesity and depression are curable. Change your lifestyle, eat better, exercise and it makes a huge difference. But while we have a benefit system that pays you to do nothing, what will change???

Answer 19

You are not being nasty..Merely stating your opinion..

As a self employed person it makes me annoyed that during bad spells I cannot caim anything for weeks before I qualify for any benifits, this despite having paid my own tax and insurance....

Where is the sense in that..

Answer 20

You are being really nasty in my opinion.  Think about if your partner had deserted you, there were no suitable jobs for you in your area and you just wanted to bring up your children to have equal opportunities and as normal a life as possible.  Would the baying of the Daily Mail brigade really help you?

Answer 21

The last time we cut benefits, there was a Crime surge, some people just will not work whatever you do to them, if we dont pay them they will steal, mug and murder to get what they want, the prisons are full, sentences are a joke, Government policies over the years have manufactured these degenerates, they have no pride, no decency and no morals, so we either shoot them, or pay them. It is not really a choice is it. Pay them!

Answer 22

You are making a very sweeping generalisation. While it is true that some people take advantage of the system, and nobody is happy about that, the majority are genuinely in need.

Unless someone is "milking" the system, the handouts are indeed very meagre and do not provide more than a basic survival income.

It is always easy to judge others when you are not in their shoes.

Answer 23

I hate their ways, I hate their attitude and I hate them. BUT if the govt. didn't hand out money, an eighth of them would turn to crime for money, robbing from us more directly, and we'd feel less safe.

Answer 24

yes, especially when the people thay really need the benefits can't get any.

Answer 25

Blame the people who made it simple for them to do so....

Answer 26

h**l yeah I agree, I don't work my *ss off and scrape by to see that some lay about gets his next fix.

Answer 27

If you suddenly become disabled you may find someone is saying that about you!

Answer 28

yea they annoy the h**l out of me, why should they get to sit on there backsides all day when normal people have to work basically for them. They should get a job and do something with there lives.

man that felt good to get out

Answer 29

Yes you are being nasty, i hope one day something happens so you have to go on benefits so you know what it's really like for people on benefits. My mother is on benefits and i am Not a nasty sod. I have a straight A average at school, and am in the top 10% of my year. Get over your self.