It works in other countries so why not here.
2007-11-04 22:42:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
totally agree.
Exceptions should be allowed for disabled people who cant do any job at all and also the mentally handicapped.
Able bodied people should work. End of story. Especaially if they have a family to support. Why should I and others like me go out and work to pay for other people and their offspring?
If no jobs are available, benefits claimants should be forced out of their homes every day to do jobs such as cleaning the streets and sorting out rubbish for recycling in exchange for their benefits.
2007-11-04 23:42:39 · answer #1 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Agree,
In Spain when you sign on, before you can get any benefits, you have to do work supplied by the 'job centre'. Often some kind of community project e.g. Where my friends live, one week, 3 women were weeding round the local church and cleaning the steps and pavement in front of it. This was what they had been allocated to do that week to earn their equivelent of jobseekers. I think some readers of this question have misinterpreted the idea behind it. Obviously some people are not physically able, or for other serious medical reasons, to do specific jobs in which case medical benefits apply which do not have to be earned. However, for those purely 'unemployed' I agree wholeheartedly.
2007-11-05 06:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by D B 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Interesting & deep question.
Some foreigners that have come here are collecting welfare and are capable of working. (they don't starve and live in lour ow income housing)
Many locals are homeless and work 2 jobs and cannot afford to pay rent. (some nearly starve and live on the beach)
Maybe if it snowed over here, we wouldn't have a homeless problem.
Aaaaaaah. The downside of paradise!
2007-11-05 07:28:13 · answer #3 · answered by Shmooks 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because we aren't other countries! What of my mother, who is now sick with Alzheimers, but worked hard for 50 years and drove a milk lorry through bombed-out streets during WW2? Let her starve?
Perhaps, objectively, you're right- she does no longer serve any purpose in society. So in a sense you're spot on, but you're also human. Forgive me for judging, but I do not think anyone could simply let the old, the young and disabled of the UK (or the US, if you're American) die of starvation. That's why we are where we are in the world.
2007-11-05 06:48:49 · answer #4 · answered by DaveyMcB 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
If you are able to, yes....what about the disabled who are truly unable to work...would you starve them to death.
I agree, benefits should not be handed out to all and sundry....it creates a lazy, 'gimme, gimme' society.
2007-11-05 07:40:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ummm...Sure lets stop elites like Shrub and Uncle Dick from giving their cronies like Halliburton and Blackwater billions in corporate welfare
2007-11-05 06:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by nicewknd 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If there were the slightest evidence you had engaged in any meaningful form of cognitive activity before formulating this ridiculous statement, I would attempt to give it a serious answer.
2007-11-05 06:46:52 · answer #7 · answered by chris m 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
work.
I don't want to be a size 0
2007-11-05 06:46:26 · answer #8 · answered by Orphelia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋