UC, food stamps, workfare - it's all good, why should I have to pay for spongers

[BlackMaryJanes]

That's my DH's POV whenever I raise my disgust at the above schemes. [sigh]

AIBU to think he's being an utter selfish git? Or does he have a point? He pulls out the "so much of our income goes on tax - that's food out of our children's mouths" card quite frequently. I usually respond by saying that I don't want to live in an individualist society where we only look out for ourselves and fuck everyone else.

I think a better question is why did YOU choose to be with?

Maybe you should have listened to his politics before choosing him as the father to your children?

I have no idea why people choose so poorly

Maybe you deserve better?

I certainly couldn't stay with such a right wing wanker who showed no empathy for others.

What about the spongers who don't pay decent wages (even if only by not offering enough shifts)... their employees won't complain or go hungry because the rest of society bails them out. Bails out such employers, that is, not the employees!

Included with these spongers are companies who abuse the intern system, who abuse(d) "Workfare"....

What does your H say about those spongers?

I don't usually have a habit of spouting karma, but this is one exception to the rule!

you could tell him that its unlikely that your taxes even pay for everything you get, let alone anyone else.

Instead of being cross at the people at the bottom of the system, many who have simply fallen on hard times, why is he not more angry at those at the top of the system who don't pay their taxes in an ethical way. The poor at the bottom need to be subsidised to be able to eat, clothe their kids etc. The massively rich at the top don't need tax breaks and tax avoidance schemes and so on in order to eat, they've already got a bloody lovely lifestyle. He is subsidising them too, by paying his fair share when they're not.

I agree with your DH. There comes a point where there will be just too many people on benefits and working people can only pay so much.

and hillybilly, there will be even more people out of work when these such measures are introduced. It seems that this goverment thinks that as long as you have a pulse, you are able to work. I don't know one person who chooses to be disabled, or chooses to have children and the partner runs off with OW and they are left to cope, or chooses to lose their accommodatoin, or chooses to have a disabled child. It is these people in society who I most admire because they don't just give up. I work (full time, if you must know), I also have a disabled child and my partner of my children did in fact feck off. I do the best I can, as does anyone faced in similar situations. Sometimes it is good to be humble and take a closer look at the people living around you, and I don't mean by watching Jezza, by the way.

Do you get child benefit?