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AIBU?

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

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/04/2013 15:33

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

I'll start.

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.

OP posts:

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Theicingontop · 02/04/2013 18:36

Yes, and God help us all.

Well, not all. Just those who haven't worked hard enough to escape illness or disablity, or a bankrupt employer.

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crashdoll · 02/04/2013 18:37

maisiejoe Do you have chronic health problems or a disability? Do any of your children? Did your once loving partner ever snap one day and become abusive or an alcohol misuser? These are all (some of the) factors leading to unemployment and poverty.

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YouTheCat · 02/04/2013 18:37

I don't think you're mistaken, Maisie, I know you're wrong.

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glossyflower · 02/04/2013 18:37

BTW the money pot for benefit claimants is not that large to begin with in comparison to the rest of it.
We should make a start by cutting off MPs expenses allowance maybe..

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YouTheCat · 02/04/2013 18:38

Oh yes and they've just committed to billions for Trident - that would solve all the problems and mean no one's benefits had to be cut.

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maisiejoe123 · 02/04/2013 18:38

Glossy - they will start on you in a minute. You are only a lone example, you are wrong, mistaken and such like!

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maisiejoe123 · 02/04/2013 18:40

I do have something that is classed as chronic. It hasnt stopped me working and I certainly wont be sharing it on a thread.

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glossyflower · 02/04/2013 18:40

maisie oh dear, what have I walked into! These kind of topics will always be heated...I am stepping away!

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YouTheCat · 02/04/2013 18:41

Is it stupidity?

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IneedAsockamnesty · 02/04/2013 18:41

You are all agreeing with each other and sometimes it is important to get another view point. It might not be your view but it is a view. Swearing,and telling you to get off a thread is all a bit pointless.

Just because I dont agree with you.....

Nothing to do with agreement or disagreement you are derailing a thread intentionally when it would be more appropriate to start your own that is called goading, its rude pointless and unfair on the posters who wish to contribute towards the thread and respond to the ops request.

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maisiejoe123 · 02/04/2013 18:41

So, I am tbh. Let them all agree with themselves....

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MurderOfGoths · 02/04/2013 18:42

"Of course I didnt miss the companies making redundancies. I was in one of them!"

So you were made redundant but have never been unemployed? So either you jumped straight into another job, which is damn lucky, of you were unemployed.

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crashdoll · 02/04/2013 18:42

I wasn't asking for your personal medical history. I was telling you examples of what may contribute to unemployment. Not all chronic diseases mean you can't work but some can and no one asks for them or has any control over that.

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MurderOfGoths · 02/04/2013 18:43

*Or, not of.

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float62 · 02/04/2013 18:43

Well done Maisie for hanging in there, not that I agree with anything you've said though. FWIW I'll come round and build your extension but I'll just say I'm a woman in my 50s with no building experience but at least I'll be working and that's all that counts isn't it?

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maisiejoe123 · 02/04/2013 18:43

I have never been unemployed..... Lucky again it seems....

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TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 02/04/2013 18:44

LOL at YouTheCat
OP YANBU
My money's on the two girls in Costa not existing.

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FancyPuffin · 02/04/2013 18:45

YoutheCat I think I love you

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MurderOfGoths · 02/04/2013 18:45

glossy You actually make some goods points. What those people are doing is fraud, it's not that this country is willingly giving money to illegals, they are breaking the law. It doesn't mean that we are too lenient/generous, it means they are criminals who haven't yet been caught. Glad you reported them.

"We should make a start by cutting off MPs expenses allowance maybe."

Now that I like!

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FasterStronger · 02/04/2013 18:45

myth: working for benefits is slave labour

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usualsuspect · 02/04/2013 18:46

I'm laughing my head of at the 2 girls in Costa story.

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usualsuspect · 02/04/2013 18:46

Myth, workfare leads to employment.

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maisiejoe123 · 02/04/2013 18:46

YoutheCat. How rude of you. How do you know what my chronic illness is? I have never on this thread called anyone stupid yet because someone disagrees with you that is your response.....

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crashdoll · 02/04/2013 18:47

maisie You clearly have no kn
owledge of social policy and the factors that contribute to poverty and unemployment. Your ignorance is making you look very silly.

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 02/04/2013 18:47

Ah, fuck.

I forgot that my belief some people deserve benefits and a decent standard of living is totally undermined by the one contrary example. After all, in a population of over 60 million, it is only natural that two or three cases should give the government fine and sound reasons to stigmatize the tens of thousands who're out of work through no fault of their own.

Forgive me, rich folks, I'll go back to grubbing for worms and eating my widescreen TV.