British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt created a bit of a stir recently when he said that jobless people should stop having babies if they they can’t afford to look after them. While some defended his statement – “It is important not to think of poor people as being complete victims of circumstance,” said David Green of the think-tank Civitas – others found his statement offensive; Labour MP Kate Green, for example, described Hunt’s comments as “unreasonable and very cruel.”
It’s debatable just how cruel the British benefit system is. This couple, for example, who have ten children, live rent-free in a four-bedroom house, get free breakfasts delivered to their door, and receive the equivalent of over $153,000 CAD annually in benefits.
A thank-you would be nice:
The jobless couple still moan that is not enough to keep them and their brood, aged from five months to 14 years…in the comfort they think they deserve. The house is ‘cramped’, they say, and they already complain that their children can only have one Nintendo Wii games console between them…
‘It’s not really that much money we get,’ said Mrs Smith, 36…
Well, it’s cruel to anyone who does work for a living isn’t it?
Yeah, it’s taxing work. On the neighbours.
These really do seem to be more than generous entitlements.
Here in rural Ontario,(I don’t know about the BIG SMOKE = GTA)but the news here reports that $581/month plus a drug card is the maximum entitlement to a single individual….
Then all the delays and red tape for the disabled to collect disability entitlements….
This is what one can call an entitled Lumpenproletariat, (a German word literally meaning “rag proletariat”), “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat”, some may be familiar with the term. Of course it is right out of the communist handbook.
It boggles ones mind to read something like that, though it is not unheard of in this country of Canada, at times the mass media will interview one of those. The thing is, is it to irritate the working people or please the union fascists, (that is not meant for the rank and file since they are only the useful idiots).
It doesn’t matter how many kids one has here in Canada, the social assistance programs here are definately not anywhere near that generous and are designed to get people off as quickly as possible; whilst giving the biggest piece of the social pie to the agencies assigned to “monitor the clients progress”.
Once a child reaches 2 years of age in BC, the parent or parents must check in to an assigned agency every single day until they find a job and attend a week-long full-time work search course (40) hours. Clients must also attend a job club at least 3 times a week on top of signing in everyday. Childcare is provided for clients with children, so the daycare makes roughly $120 per day/child and the assigned agency makes $2000 per month/client (that would be $4000 per month in the case of a two parent family) as does whatever other agency the overseeing agency refers them to. In other words the adults also attend a type of very expensive, yet no frills at all day care (unless you count the loaf of bread and toaster at the agency office as a frill – the agencies call it free breakfast). The assigned agency receives a bonus of between $3000 – $5000 if their client finds work within 4 months. However, the client on social assistance receives a max of $866 per month(2 parent family – less if one parent) period; plus the federal baby bonus of between $100 – $150 per month per child. There is no free housing and the average wait time for subsidized housing is 2 years in most major centers – longer in others.
Frankly, I have a very difficult time believing the UK is that generous – something does not smell right with that story.
America has its entitled as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBzjLnO-e3o&feature=player_embedded
Just shut up and get to work folks. We’re obviously not contributing enough through our taxes to ensure that these wonderful citizens can live in comfort. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Well no-one do a little more research England is on her fourth generation of cradle to grave welfare parasites/hoes. And the dollar amount is in pounds ergo it’s nearly 300,000 thousand in welfare benifits for the weak, lame and lazy to grow fat, become drug/booze addict wards of the state.
I’m sure nobody here believes that everyone on welfare is getting that much, so the question should be how have they gotten those benefits. Do they know someone on the inside or are they just really good at applying for the extras?
There are many people who build their entire career on extracting money from governments. And not just the street scum who can ‘t quite figure out what’s causing all the kids.
That needs to stop. That is what the Tea Party is all about.
Unfortunately the case is not unique
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293730/Somali-asylum-seeker-family-given-2m-house–complaining-5-bed-London-home-poor-area.html
It is upsetting when you think of more deserving cases.
“that no family should receive more than £500 a week in benefits”
That converts to $806.86 per week or $41956.72 per year. Not a bad income for doing nothing.
When you reward bad/wrong behaviour, expect to get more of it. And they wonder why jobless and unmarried people continue to have children. Go figure.
They get these obscene benefits because “problem” families are assigned their own social worker. It’s the bureaucratic drones in the social welfare departments who comb every obscure program to enrich these families. It’s also these people who lobby to get the ridiculous programs in the first place: more programs, more jobs for the drones, more pay for “responsibility” for the managers. Then there’s the media that ferrets out the “disadvantaged” and demands political action to help them. Finally, and all too familiar to Canadians, there are the political parties who shamelessly buy votes retail by pandering to every so-called poverty organisation. Some people have made very successful careers that way: witness Gerard Kennedy, from a Toronto food bank to Liberal insider and potential Leader.
Create a new Corp of engineers, give these welfare types a shovel and start building massive public works just like in the dirty thirties.Single mothers can run the daycares and kitchens unless they want to run a shovel. Get some public use out of our public funds.