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    Work for benefits

    BBC have your say is on fire today:

    Added: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008, 12:26 GMT 12:26 UK

    I think the goverment is 10 years late. why should we have to work so hard and provide for those people on benefits. i think its disgrace how many people are on benefits when they could get their lazy backside and get a job even if its just cleaning the toilets. maybe if goverment put their foot down their won't be so much teeange pregarncy. theirs more on benefits who are pregrnant becuase they can get an easy ride in life.

    Patrica, croydon


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    Added: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008, 12:26 GMT 12:26 UK

    I would be more in favour of those on benefits to do 1 days unpaid work for their local council, like sorting rubbish for recycling, or cleaning streets, parks etc. Which would give them a entitlement to the benefit. Or maybe food, rent, gas, electricity etc vouchers and very little cash e.g. £5.

    Prymuz, Essex

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    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


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    #2
    Wonder how many of these people commenting are council 'workers'.

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      #3
      If you root out the people who just want to get some money but are not prepared even to try to work for it, what will they do next? Quite a few may turn to crime. Is that a good result?

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        #4
        Originally posted by Purple Dalek View Post
        Wonder how many of these people commenting are council 'workers'.
        or indeed, people who post on CUK?
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #5
          Originally posted by expat View Post
          If you root out the people who just want to get some money but are not prepared even to try to work for it, what will they do next? Quite a few may turn to crime. Is that a good result?
          Why not turn to crime? No punishment. Just say you did it to get a fix and you are let off.

          This is one of the few cases where Arab countries have the right idea.

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            #6
            If you root out the people who just want to get some money but are not prepared even to try to work for it, what will they do next? Quite a few may turn to crime. Is that a good result?
            your talking about a minority.

            have you been down to the local job centre recently? i went a few weeks ago and there are so many able bodied chavs (sorry to generalise but they were in the majority) that were claiming job seekers allowance and income support.

            If you give someone money and housing and they have no desire to better themselves then why would they bother?

            Yet - if you make them work for their benefits doing the s### work no one wants to do (cleaning public toilets, etc..) and if they didnt perform properly or turn up they would lose percentages of their benefits (like a points system) you might create a system that people dont particularily want to stay in and will work harder to get out of rather than stay in for the comfortable ride.

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              #7
              Socialist governments, like Mr. Brown's, would not want to jeopardise their position by taking such drastic action such as making benefit claimants work.

              It would not be difficult for the councils to set up a committee that would visit each claimant at the time of application, to determine whether they truly need handouts or whether they are capable of performing at least some duty in exchange for financial assistance.

              But no - a socialist government is keen to perpetuate the misery and decline of claimants because this creates a dependent population who continue to vote the same government in again. Hence the government has no reason to change its policy on this matter.

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                #8
                It will end up costing us more money, people will have to run the scheme and folk will have to be employed to tell them what to do.

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                  #9
                  There was an article on the news last night were the police were raiding loan sharks, one story mentioned that a women only had £50 left from her £1700 benefits after she had paid the shark.

                  My wife and I were speechless.
                  Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                    #10
                    Patricia from Croydon is clearly a fascist...
                    Older and ...well, just older!!

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