This is wrong and should be addressed. However, corporations take more in government handouts then all the welfare queens combine. Lets go after them first and then figure out what to do about the welfare cheats.

Ishkur: Liberals are always afraid that innocent people might be unfairly punished.

Conservatives are always afraid that innocent people might be unfairly rewarded.

Liberals always cheerlead a system that lets you take.

Conservatives always cheerlead a system that lets you earn.

Liberals are always afraid that innocent people might be unfairly punished.

Conservatives are always afraid that innocent people might be unfairly rewarded.

This means that everyone who needs government assistance is a moocher and that safety net money is to now be sent to pay for tax cuts for the more deserving wealthy

crypticsatellite: Also, cute?

British cute.


What's sad is that there is no job that pays more than government benefits. $28K a year ain't much to raise a kid on.

neenerist: here to help: Raise the minimum wage. Tax companies that outsource into oblivion....
Necessities have become far too expensive, wages have stagnated and companies don't want to hire locally....

Raising wages and taxes will cause prices to rise. Math is cruel taskmaster.

I don't have the link handy, but a study was done on that, and found that a 10% increase in the minimum wage resulted in a whopping 0.01% increase in the price of products and services. The whole, "OMG, if we pay the poors more money, everything will get too expensive!" is a bullshiat myth.

How do you get a job seekers benefit if you're not seeking a job? GAT_00: Oh look, it's this story again.

Oh look it is this Communist again.

farkeruk: digistil: "Of course there are people that believe we think ridiculous things, such as: 'We could easily get a job but why would we want to work - we would be worse off.' In reality, we spend 80 hours a week looking for work, but there are no jobs. Businesses say it's the austerity measures."

Trust me, I could find these people a job within a day. A friend of mine got made redundant recently and while looking for another job (he wasn't going to be unemployed for long), he got a job in a pub. It took less than a day of walking around town to get a job.

The whole reason why UK supermarkets, shops and cafes are stuffed full of Poles, Ukranians, Russians and Romanians is that those shops just can't get the staff.

Funny that, those are the sorts of jobs my hubby is trying to get there, and he can't get one, even though the last job he had, he held for nearly four years before marrying me and moving to Canada.

carnifex2005: I got a 46" TV a year ago on Boxing Day for $400 CDN. That size TV isn't very expensive anymore.

In 2003 I paid $4500 for a 42" Philips plasma.  This past October, the ballast that fires up the tube went bad, and it was $250 just for the part to fix it.  Even though I had great memories from that TV, into the trash it went.  It also helped that it sucked up about 800 watts while it was on, which made it hot and drove up the electric bill.

I replaced it with a 55" Panasonic plasma that runs at 200 watts.  Cost?  $700.

Can't stop the march of technology.

"Their lounge is dominated by the huge TV"

Thirty five inches isn't dominating or huge.

This is from the Onion, right? Right? Please?

That paper published articles like this 2-3 times each week.

And FARK activates the DERP machine for each of them.

LostGuy: LiberalConservative: A SOLUTION. Long-term unemployed are required to log a minimum number of hours of community service in order to receive their welfare payments. Ta-da! Suddenly they must work either way, and contribute to society either way. This was done in Australia (blessed Howard by memory) and out came the bleeding heart libtards saying its disgustingly unfair.

I'd say that far enough as long as you made the trust fund kiddies and the people (under 60) who live on investments alone also do community service. I mean if we are talking about the moral imperative to work it should apply to all classes.

There's a bit of a difference there, in that the trust fund kiddies and retirees aren't living on the government dime.

But then, expecting people to work is socialism - to each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities, and all that. Just dispensing checks without requesting anything in return is corporatism...

It's sad to see that self-respect and dignity are no longer considered to be worth anything.

Raise the minimum wage. Tax companies that outsource into oblivion and encourage home grown replacements of those companies. Any able bodied person on assistance longer than six months has to go to school or work a couple days a week. If they are in public housing that work can be done maintaining/administrating the complex.

Necessities have become far too expensive, wages have stagnated and companies don't want to hire locally.

That said... this article is a steaming pile of bullsh*t. If it's not I'm sure whoever handles their case will be giving them a talking to very soon.
Hurr durr poor people be stealing mah monies!! Most of you idiots don't even pay taxes.

clapperton: I work with a Guy that likes to play the system. He has a baby with his batshiat crazy girlfriend (she's 21, its her 3rd kid with her 3rd baby-daddy) . When I say batshiat crazy, I'm talking diagnosed, unmedicated, split personality disorder. One personality even tries to kill him sometimes. Needless to say, she's receiving disability and all sorts of other benefits. So back to him, every January and July he calls in to work at least 2 or 3 times a week because he has to recertify for his handouts so he has to show he doesn't make much money. He even brags about it at work. We all biatch about how much of our paychecks is taken out in taxes, and he brags because he is collecting it.

Oh, I'm SO jealous of that lifestyle and the welfare money she's collecting.

The handout certification is probably so he doesn't make too much money to reduce her benefits, as they're together. Once a woman with kids from multiple fathers enters the system, shes better off single. The system is set up to keep men away from their children and out of the woman's household, or him not working if they're in the household. Mom is bat shiat crazy, the dad being around is probably saving the state a lot of foster and other costs.

There's just no incentive to find work when we've got a better lifestyle than if we were to go out and work for 35-40 hours every week. Why would we give this up?

I was always told "Don't go past the principal's office if you don't have to"

Lernaeus: I've got family that are entitlement sponges ... liars and con artists, too, since they receive all kinds of benefits they legally don't qualify for.

I'm squeaking by working 50+ hours at a job and earning extra money on music and art projects, and they're not only bringing in more money than I am, but have all the free time in the world to drink, eat pills, smoke pot, party, play video games, eat out, and so on. They actually make fun of me "behind my back" for working (I guess they think I don't know how Facebook works).

Yeah, corporations need to stop getting government money (not to mention foreign countries), but so do welfare queens. The system is being abused on a rampant scale, and despite alleged initiatives to get people working and independent, entitlement workers actually advise people on methods of obtaining MORE in handouts.


So report the cheating family to the relevant authorities. They will investigate.

When I was 19, I was on benefits as an unmarried mom with no skills. I decided to go to college to be a scientist. I was accepted as a transfer from a community college into a good 4year college for a astro/physics degree and that summer began to volunteer as an intern at a local observatory. Our local paper got wind of my bootstrappiness thru the community colleges' PR person and the did a little story in the paper about how a welfare mom went to college and was now in an internship at an observatory.

That next week I had to embarrass myself by getting written notes from the head of the facility where I was interning, promising that I was not being compensated for my internship in any way -- because a paper pusher at the welfare office saw the article.

Oh, yes, if you report on someone, they will come.

*In Canada, you barely make enough to survive on welfare unless you also have subsidized housing, and each new addition to the family only adds approximately 50$ to your benefits(last i checked which was several yrs ago) You do also get child tax benefit, but even still, you don't do nearly as well as this family.

*my hubby is IN England, LOOKING FOR WORK, and they won't give him a damned cent, even though when he first went over, i was making minimum wage here in canada, and not full-time hours, and am now unemployed.

*my ei runs out in a couple of months, neither of us can find work in our respective countries, I'm afraid I'm never going to see him again at this rate. It'll be a year in may since he left to go looking. :(

EvilEgg: "Their lounge is dominated by the huge TV"

Thirty five inches isn't dominating or huge.

Article said 47 inch TV.  Not huge, but big enough.

When the idle poor become the idle rich,
You'll never know just who is who or who is which,
Won't it be rich when everyone's poor relative becomes a Rockefellertive,
And palms no longer itch, what a switch,
When we all have ermine and plastic teeth,
How will we determine who's who underneath?
And when all your neighbors are upper class,
You won't know your Joneses from your Astors,
Let's toast the day,
The day we drink that drinkie up,
But with the little pinkie up,
The day on which, the idle poor become the idle rich.
When a rich man doesn't want to work,
He's a bon vivant, yes, he's a bon vivant,
But when a poor man doesn't want to work,
He's a loafer, he's a lounger, he's a lazy good for nothing, he's a jerk.
When a rich man loses on a horse, isn't he the sport?
Oh isn't he the sport?
But when a poor man loses on a horse,
He's a gambler, he's a spender, he's a lowlife,
He's a reason for divorce.
When a rich man chases after dames,
He's a man about town, oh, he's a man about town,
But when a poor man chases after dames,
He's a bounder, he's a rounder, he's a rotter and a lotta dirty names.
When the idle poor become the idle rich,
You'll never know just who is who or who is which,
No one will see the Irish or the Slav in you,
For when you're on Park Avenue, Cornelius and Mike look alike.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever way, same as it ever was.

Fox News + boobies = The Sun.

violentsalvation: The Sun and the Daily Mail sure report a lot on people like this. They must handsomely compensate the lazy bastards. Either that or they just feel THAT entitled that they are willing to talk about it. Maybe both. I dunno.

Or perhaps the reporters could lie to them as to what the interview is about.

The Sun and the Daily Mail sure report a lot on people like this. They must handsomely compensate the lazy bastards. Either that or they just feel THAT entitled that they are willing to talk about it. Maybe both. I dunno.

That was odd.

How do you get a job seekers benefit if you're not seeking a job?

Coco LaFemme: ......and we think the welfare system in THIS country is abused.  Won't look for a job because it would pay less than what they can suck off the government teat.  That's farking pathetic.

It happens here, too.

I honest thought it was going to be a story on the Royal Family.