To start a benefits "myth busting" thread so that I can link the thickos of Facebook to it

[MarmaladeTwatkins]

When they start moaning about how people on benefits can afford diamond shoes and other such items.

I'll start.

1. Housing benefit is mostly paid out to WORKING people. So all of this talk of going out and getting a job and buying their own home if they don't like the bedroom tax is a flawed argument.

Was going to walk away from this thread, but this is to DawnDonna's DD. Your mum must be very proud of you, you are very lucky to have each other. Now go give her a big hug, and tell her to forget about these idiots, as she has made an amazing contribution to the world by raising someone as thoughtful as you.

It's not free money.
It costs your physical health, your sanity and self worth and self respect. It costs family, in my case.

You also have to poke up with bigots feeling they are somehow superior to you, can tell you what to spend your money on and how to live your life because they pay for you.

Dawndonna's DD, at times like this we need clapping smileys, you deserve a page full of them.

The potential builders live three roads away. They could walk here. Are you seriously suggesting that a company of builders have no money to travel to sites! They wouldnt be a firm of builders if that was the case. They would have no customers!!

Maybe they've heard about your attitude Maisie and have decided that they don't want to drop their standards no matter how desperate for work they might be.

Isn't that a bit contradictory though, skinnybitch?

I also live on disability/Carer benefits yet you don't want to pay for me.

maisie - you are right. construction has been badly hit by the recession. so why no interest in the work?

They could walk there and lug the bricks and cement and tools on their backs! By God if they wanted the work that badly they would tear and toil to have the chance to build Maisie's extension!

Honestly, I just think they don't want to work for you. Two companies have ignored you? Take the hint.

I agree Skinny. Skinny isnt talking about the genuinely disabled, she is talking about the people who give no thoughts to their actions when they get together with someone, with no thoughts of birth control, who then do the same thing again and again. Who have messed around at school and spolit it for others. Who dont have any qualifications. And if Vivienne's figures are true - blimey £600 for 4 children excluding child benefit....

Maisie, nobody cares about your builders. Go and start another thread if it is so important to you.

"maisie - you are right. construction has been badly hit by the recession. so why no interest in the work?"

Hmmmm, I wonder...

DawnDonnas dd.

Bless you, and please believe me the bullies and none sympathisers are few and far between thank God.
Your family have been through a lot, much that would make anybody with an ounce of humanity sympathise. to you.

Oh dear. Serious tosserdom.

I don't understand tax payers who resent paying into the benefit system, who don't seem to have the slightest problem with their beloved government spending millions of pounds of their money on fucking mansions and inflated expenses. But of course, they're fixing the economy, so it's ok.

no one wanting to even discuss a building project in a recession is odd. & relevant to a discussion on benefits.

I've just done the calculator thing for a single mother with four kids and yes, it's coming out at that too Maisie.

But I'm not surprised.

No thoughts to their actions when they get together with someone? So you're talking about single mums here? Let's just clarify.

Nice to know that women blame women for single mums bludgeoning the state with their over-used uteruses, letting the men off the hook. I am embarrssed for you, Maisie.

For anyone who is interested, the latest episode of the Now show talks about this kind of shit.

DawnDonna and her lovely dd: you have the nice people in the world behind you. Ignore the nasty little bullies.

I think you are reading what you want to marmalade.
Is it really bizarre to suggest people try to plan pregnancy with a partner they know well, perhaps are even shock, horror married to? And are financially stable?

So Skinny, what happens when that rock solid husband buggers off with a new woman and doesn't pay for his kids?