Why do I have to pay for all the lazy people on benifits?

Question

They just take and take because they can and I am sick of it! I work on av 72 hours a week, i get nothing free, i have even had to resort to buying my precription drug from suspect places!

Answer 1

I agree, I'm also fed up paying for these scroungers(disabled and sick excluded).Many have children too, which are thrown money at (our money) by the government.How many chavs have you seen with brand new baby buggies, cigarette in hand and satellite TVs all paid for by us.Who's fault is it that they are unmarried mothers (single parents?) Have they never heard of contraception.? (Granted there are some widows but we are not talking about them.)I don't mind ensuring that people and children have enough to eat but to provide these people with cigarettes and luxuries..no way.Give them food and clothing vouchers not money.Child benefit should be for the first child only, that would stop these irresponsible parasites procreating at our expense.If they had to pay for their own children their families would be much smaller.
They don't have to pay rent etc but working people earning over a certain amount have to pay for everything ..including other people's children.
Googlywo..no, pensioners have worked all their lives to provide a fund for themselves in old age, the lazy haven't.

Answer 2

What are benifits? Are they the same as benefits only spelt incorrectly.

Basically have you ever heard of the Phillips Curve? The lower unemployment goes the higher inflation goes. If those on the dole all found jobs, your wages will not go as far, it is widely agreed in economic circles that it is neither possible or desirable to have unemployment at zero. Therefore those lazy people are actually performing a benefical economic function.

Having signed on the dole five times in the last year, I can give you some comfort that it may be possible to subsist on benefits, but impossible to have any decent standard of living and as boring as hell if it goes on for too long, hence the reason why I didn't sign on for longer than three weeks. If there is any great incentive to not work I haven't come across it yet.

Answer 3

What benefits are you talking about? SSI is tax paid as is food stamps and welfare is too, but welfare that is paid to a woman can be collected from the father of the child. SSDBI is paid from the persons lifetime earnings and medicare part B for hospital stays is collected from the beneficiary($93.50 at this time), part A is collected while the person is working. VA benefits are tax based as well. I receive SSDBI AND VA benefits, want to call me lazy?I EARNED THIS THE HARD WAY been places you could only point to on a map and I started working when I was 8 years old, Doctors said I could not work any more. I am 51 and I know what WORKING MEANS, so before you group people together as LAZY, you might want to talk to some of them personally and perhaps they can share their story as how they ended up on benefits, NOT LAZY......Social Security Disability benefit insurance(SSDBI) I had to get a Lawyer to get this,it cost me $5000.00 out of my back pay, it is a lot harder to get SSI or Social Security.

Answer 4

I agree with you about the people that scrounge off benefits and i think that is really wrong and the people that work loads of hours a week like you and others in the community should have the advantages that they get.
However, don't tar all people on benefits with the same brush. Not all of them are just trying to get as much money as possible, some of them need it. And if that person was you, you wouldn't appreciate some-one sayin,
'Why do i have to pay for all the lazy people on benefits'.
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Answer 5

People wind up "in the poor house" for a lot of different reasons. Some never recover. There is also a threshold issue which is seldom addressed. To get on welfare you have to jump over a kind of "need hurdle." The benefits organizations strip people of their dignity before allowing them to take advantage of the "free stuff." On the one hand, it stops laggards who just want to rip off the system. On the other hand, the truly needy develop a kind of adversarial relationship with the people who are there to help them. This mutual distrust keeps the needy in a position where they feel they deserve the handouts they get (because of what they were put through to get it) and reinforces a mentality that makes them willing to sit back and feed at the public trough forever, rather than pull themselves back up into the mainstream of society. Yet another problem is that when these people do try to mainstream, the government cuts them off immediately, rather than transitioning them. In practical terms, they usually have to actually become poorer than they were on welfare in order to get off of it. So, is welfare too good to those who are on it? Should welfare have a time limit? (see Michigan's "2 year" experiment). Frankly, my personal view is this: male or female - your 13th welfare payment comes with surgery to end your reproductive capacity. Strong medicine, indeed. My fellow students in law school were not pleased at the suggestion. But 20 years later, I am still of this opinion.

Answer 6

Yeah and all those people on pensions too! How dare they work and then expect us to pay for them out of our taxes just because they got old!

I suspect if you ever get made redundant you'll regret saying that!

I've worked 100 hour weeks to pay the bills and I didn't mind the 20 quid or so that went into the welfare system because I knew that one way or another I would have to use it before I died.

Answer 7

I dont mind paying for people who truly cant work but when you see all the ones that are faking injuries and all the drug addicts/alcoholics that get extra money it makes my blood boil.

I am at college and my boyfriend is on a low wage and we struggle but we dont claim any benefits (I have to pay my loan back with interest before any one says anything about scrounging students) - we pay full rent and sometimes at the end of the month we dont have money left for essentials like proper food and either have to borrow money off people or eat plain rice or pasta with a bit of tomato sauce.

There is so many junkies and alkies where we live and you see them getting extra money all the time and flats paid for. And then theres the ones that totally scam their benefits and end up being able to afford 3 holidays a year when I am struggling to pay my bus fare to college.

What makes me mad aswell is that one of my best friends is a single mother who would love to work but she has a back problem (one her discs is slowly wasting away, leaving her in constant pain) and she has applied for DLA numerous times and they turn her down because she manages to look after herself and make sure her daughter is always clean and tidy as well as her house. But then you watch programmes about benefit cheats on tv and they always manage to get it and run around working on the fly.

Answer 8

Because that's what this damned Socialist Government stands for ..... squeeze the normal ,hardworking person from every directon possible until the pips squeak and then fritter all the money away on dossers, scroungers and immigrants. Those that squander all their money away and never save for the future are looked after by this Government whilst the rest of this hardworking population find it harder and harder to make ends meet. It seems that if you claim one benefit you get them all thrown at you !!!

Answer 9

Blame the government, its their rules that keep the scroungers taking your hard earned money off you.
I have retired now, worked and paid in to the system all my life
and know the feeling well when deductions are taken from wages going to help pay for scroungers. Genuine people I accept, but when you see people with nothing wrong with them in bed until afternoon every day it becomes sickening to see a government allowing this to go on.

Answer 10

Okay stop buying the prescriptions from places like that, theyre no good. Sometimes people run into bad luck and need those things. Im sure its not something you want to hear but, I never wanted to go to the government for help like that because it really makes you feel like part of you is gone. I know Im not useless but not being able to find a something suitable that I can get paid for doesnt help with making you feel good about yourself. I know there are people out there that do take advantage of it but there are good people too that wish they werent in that situation. Sometimes bad things just happen and you just try to keep going with it because you got no choice.