I didnt grow up here as you know, and I am not sure about how everything works here, but I feel on this I need to comment.
Because my parents made what you would call a high tax rate I could not qualify to get a student loan when I went to college. Therefore I had to work my way through college. I could not go to a University, but instead a Community College.
I would hate to see that happen to Keith. Just because people worked hard to get where they are and have more money, does not always mean that they have money free to spend. It is usually tied up in debt in some way. And usually when they do tax programmes like that it is usually the upper middle class that suffers, how is that fair?
As for people on benefits in this country, I have seen QUITE a FEW that are on them that do whatever they can to stay on them because they are to lazy or proud to work. As for the 250gbp that Keith got when he was born, that is his, not ours to be used for his education when he is older. We put money away in his account when we can. Again for his education when he is older. I know some people think of my situation with my husband and think that we have money to throw around, but the fact is we budget just like everyone else. I had to put things on hold to take the trip that I just recently took to the states. Had I not had friends and family that were able to put me up, I would not have been able to afford the trip. That is a side bar issue.
What angers me here is so many people claiming benefits and fraud the government. People could make it work to live life without being on benefits here. I see people posting about not being able to work, because they have no childcare, yet they find it when they want to goto a club or some gig. I see people claim they cant work because of some disability or depression yet they are out and about in town or at the park, or in one case I saw someone moving furniture! I have heard from woman I know that when they were in hospital giving birth they overheard another mother getting schooled by her mother NOT to put the father's name on the birth certificate so she could get more in benefits.
Personally, I think anyone on benefits should be held up to standards that the average person does when they go for a job, say random drug testing for example. Also set up programs to get people OFF benefits and help them to be self sufficient. Oh, and what about prevention programs?
Again, maybe I need to research more on the political side of things rather than base my opinions on what I have seen around where I live and people I have met. It just gets the blood boiling a little bit for me.
no subject
Because my parents made what you would call a high tax rate I could not qualify to get a student loan when I went to college. Therefore I had to work my way through college. I could not go to a University, but instead a Community College.
I would hate to see that happen to Keith. Just because people worked hard to get where they are and have more money, does not always mean that they have money free to spend. It is usually tied up in debt in some way. And usually when they do tax programmes like that it is usually the upper middle class that suffers, how is that fair?
As for people on benefits in this country, I have seen QUITE a FEW that are on them that do whatever they can to stay on them because they are to lazy or proud to work. As for the 250gbp that Keith got when he was born, that is his, not ours to be used for his education when he is older. We put money away in his account when we can. Again for his education when he is older. I know some people think of my situation with my husband and think that we have money to throw around, but the fact is we budget just like everyone else. I had to put things on hold to take the trip that I just recently took to the states. Had I not had friends and family that were able to put me up, I would not have been able to afford the trip. That is a side bar issue.
What angers me here is so many people claiming benefits and fraud the government. People could make it work to live life without being on benefits here. I see people posting about not being able to work, because they have no childcare, yet they find it when they want to goto a club or some gig. I see people claim they cant work because of some disability or depression yet they are out and about in town or at the park, or in one case I saw someone moving furniture! I have heard from woman I know that when they were in hospital giving birth they overheard another mother getting schooled by her mother NOT to put the father's name on the birth certificate so she could get more in benefits.
Personally, I think anyone on benefits should be held up to standards that the average person does when they go for a job, say random drug testing for example. Also set up programs to get people OFF benefits and help them to be self sufficient. Oh, and what about prevention programs?
Again, maybe I need to research more on the political side of things rather than base my opinions on what I have seen around where I live and people I have met. It just gets the blood boiling a little bit for me.
Sorry for going off tangent a little Toby!