On 05/02/2018 20:31, Brian Reay wrote:
On 05/02/2018 11:15, Fredxx wrote:
On 05/02/2018 09:42, Brian Reay wrote:
On 04/02/2018 22:11, dennis@home wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...bs-in-cornwall





Hardly a surprise.

We have a serious problem with people who expect to be carried by
others and/or paid more than their skills etc justify.

Do you work as much as those lazy people who are carried by those who do?

I've claimed unemployment benefit etc. Worked in summer hols at Uni. Got
a job when I left, worked until I retired- admittedlyÂ* early but then
I'd work to do that.


If we stopped people refusing work offers, stopped benefits etc,

I agree, all state benefits should stop.

My issue is with wasters who refuse to work etc. and/or abuse the system.

There is a problem with forcing people to take whatever job comes along
too - they may not be able to afford to.

I was out of work after my contract finished and my wife was ill, so I
couldn't go back to work for a while. When I was ready to look, for some
months I was only finding jobs at 2/3 or less of the rate that I'd been
on, but having lost my wife's income as well, we could not afford that.

While I was unemployed, my insurances were paying mortgage, credit card
bills, etc., but if I'd returned to such a lower income, without my
wife's income, the insurances would have stopped and I'd have had an
income less than our fixed outgoings! Fortunately I eventually managed
to get a job with a similar income to before and we could manage again.

SteveW