dickytim:
Her comments were designed to shock, and were a desperate reaction to wanting to remain on the benefit as it is, in her words "too hard" to do anything else, why are you not disgusted by this? Why are you not pissed off that you pay higher taxes to fund people like this?
I have lived thru difficult time, and never had anything growing up, I have zero understanding or tolerance for people who don't do anything to better themselves? Would these people be willing to clean other peoples sh!t? I have and did as it meant I could stay off the benefit.
Given the amounts involved, I am more pissed off about the amount of corporate welfare, tax avoidance and underpunished white collar crime than I am about the relatively tiny amounts of tax money that goes to welfare abuse. Hell, move the pension age up 3 years, and there's way more tax money saved - even reducing the pension for those still in work or means-testing it would save tons.