Different views please.?

Question

I am 28, I have always worked BUT I have a very big issue with people who are not willing to work (regardless of nationality/colour/religion) but wish to complain about the small benefits they receive out of tax payers money.

I also have an issue with immigrants who do not need to seek asylum yet (thank you tony blair) see the UK as an easy ride.
In the UK we have old age pensioners who have worked hard and are now struggling and many homeless people - yet immigrants regardless of status seem to get housed prior to nationals.

I don't care what colour someone is BUT if someone is capable of working but prefers or chooses to sit at home claiming benefits I would like to see their benefits stopped completely.

What do you think?

Please note (lalyn) My husband is black. I am half japenese. So no don't really think I am racist.

REGARDLESS OF COLOUR if someone is HEALTHY enough to work then they should.

Please note (lalyn) My husband is black. I am half japanese. So no don't really think I am racist.

REGARDLESS OF COLOUR if someone is HEALTHY enough to work then they should.

Please note (lalyn) My husband is black. I am half japanese. So no don't really think I am racist.

REGARDLESS OF COLOUR if someone is HEALTHY enough to work then they should.

Answer 1

After THOROUGHLY reading your question (which I can only assume some people who answered didn't) I would have to say I agree.
1.) Yes if someone is CAPABLE of working they should.
2.) Immigrants who are illegal and have no desire to do anything but misuse the current UK system, should be promptly returned instead of being allowed to be a drain on our resources.
3.) Immigrants are a good part of this country - the UK is a great big melting pot and that is part of the charm of this country.
4.) As someone else said "Charity begins at Home" and whilst I agree that families should atleast try to help their elderly relatives - those old people who do not have relatives that can help them or perhaps have no relatives at all deserve to be helped before illegal immigrants/asylum seekers as THEY have already put something into this country.
5.) There is regularly something in the National papers about yet another family (white/black/asylum seekers - who cares what colour etc they are) who are complaining about the amount of benefits they are receiving or that they and their 12 kids are squashed into one house - no one asked them to have 12 children and personally I can only afford to have 2-3 children due to paying my bills and childcare so why should I pay for someone else to sit around (WHEN THEY ARE CAPABLE OF WORKING) and produce 12 children.

So all in all would have to say I agree with you and alot of other people on here who all raised valid points.

Answer 2

The laws and rules have to be changed. First, you need restrictions on who can enter the country. You need not only quotas, but you don't want people with things such as criminal records or serious illness. Immigrants should be bringing some type of skill that will benefit the country. On the other side of the coin, you need to restrict services (housing, education, medical care etc.) to citizens - not illegal immigrants. Obviously, you won't turn away an emergency. When illegal immigrants are found, steps need to be initiated to have the person jailed or deported. If nothing is changed - we won't have the same country we have today - In fact, everything is already changing.

Answer 3

With you all the way I have spent 2 weeks out of work and never claimed for them and I know I will never be unemployed I will take any job rather than sign on what really pisses me off is that these people then have kids who grow up thinking they have the right to live off the taxes I pay the state.
Granted there are areas that really struggle to provide unemployment and people who try really hard to get off benefits and I do not be grudge them a single penny.
As for immigrants I live in an area of high immigration 9/10 of those I know are bloody hard workers. the others well I wont put in writing my thoughts on those

Answer 4

I have been out of work and desperately looking for 6 months. I dont qualify for benefits as my husband earns a whopping £12k as a croupier. He see's many people with 'not able to work in the uk' on their membership card gambling away the money Blair doles out. I spend my days trawling the internet and shops handing out my CV and about 50% of the time the first person I speak to is not british (regardless of the colour of their skin). We don't have enough jobs in this country to be giving them away to other nationalities. Charity (and employment) should begin at home.

Answer 5

I think that any one claiming benefits should also have to work for them - depending on the reasons ie unable to lift, bend reach - they could do menial tasks that require non of these movements, if people are fit but cant find a job they should be given community work , I think people should be allowed maternity benefits though at least until the baby is a year old - there are plenty of jobs that need doing that no one does perhaps people would prefer to earn their money rather than receive hand outs.

Answer 6

Did you know it is policy for certain government bodies to tell immigrants - without being asked - all the benefits they can possibly receive, yet british nationals are required to ask what they can (no information is offered but MUST be requested)
Good ait it?
I don't think benefits should be stopped completely as I know a great deal of people who honestly can't work (through illness disability etc.) but i do believe the current system should be seriously questioned and reviewed.

Answer 7

I have never hung around someone who does not work for a living and I have never heard anyone complain about benefits they receive for not working. I don't think a lot of people have heard others say these things but they get on hear and write like they have so they can make their point. If there are people that say what you claim to have heard I'm sure it is such a small percentage people in country that it should not effect your life.

Answer 8

Actually so what happens to the ppl who really can't work because of disabillity or other reasons are you willing to let them work?? it's all good saying let them work but who is honestly willing to let someone who is constantly sick and is not able to move around quickly to work ??? don't you think they deserves a benefit??? it seems to me that everyone here just sees one side of the story when it comes to benefits, there are ppl who abuse this system but you all seem to b type casting even who take benefits as lazy but you never seem to think that the reason the goverment invented that system was because ppl who are unable to work could not get any money,
And as for immigrants everyone is dfissing them but the ecomomy needs them because their are the ones willing to do the jobs no one else is??? and their they ones who's helping to keep the streets clen and etc, and as for the mistreatment of the elderly it's truly wrong the mismangement of the finances by the goverment is bad but i don't see why everyone is using ppl on benefits or immigrants as scapegoat because many immigrants come here for a better life than they had and if ppl tried to remember that in life nothing is as straight as it seems, the the mistreatment of eldely is largely due to goverments mismanagement of finances i personally think that the elderly families should also take more responsibility to them in stead of taking them to care homes to be mistreated these are the ppl that looked after you when you were little they sacficed a lot for their childen should'nt their children but a little more effort in taking care of them instead of paying ppl to take care of them because the goverment is no good at it

Answer 9

What about the people who can't work,disabled, too much $ for daycare & not enough pay? So you would want their benifits taken away? And by u stateing many times in your Question that it isn't about color that leads me to belive your denying your racist views to yourself and try to convince us that your not. Belive me I think the people who don't deserve benefits shouldn't get them but that is also why the government decides who & who will not get them. When someone gets on benefits the have to prove why they are unable to work-if they are proven worthy then they get them if not they don't simple as that.At least that's how it is in the US.

Answer 10

I can imagine, several million thinking the way we do. Illegal immigrants receive free hospitalization, free education, free rental,free social security disability, etc...So do alcoholics, drug users,prostitutes, politicians,preachers and whatever criminal I may have missed.
Bust your rump-pay-pay-pay! At the end of road, there is a nursing home waiting to take whatever finances you have.
It does make you wonder, whether it is worth it or not.
The old folks said, history repeats itself. Don't you think the American Revolution had credence? Is it not long overdue for another?

Answer 11

Defenately, we have that problem in america, the number of unemployed who collect unemployment is really high. They are able to work but won't do it, yet we complain that the illegals take the jobs. Since a lot of illegals have been gone, the jobs they held are not being filled, yet we still have a high unemployment count.