But Youaremyfavourite what has really upset some people is married's massive bias - the one rule for us and another for them attitude she presents.
She wrote upthread:
It's a shame people don't take advice and help themselves - oh no it always has to be waiting with the hand held out and a massive sense of entitlement. Most people who have criticised on this thread think they should lead independent lives, think they should receive cash benefits, think they should be treated as adults. Unfortunately if you can't budget and if you can't put money aside over the summer when the heating bills are low then actually perhaps you shouldn't get cash in order to make independent decisions. Perhaps you should get food vouchers and heating vouchers and travel vouchers with no allowances for optional luxuries.
But fails to see how exactly the same judgements can and should be applied to the very rich, who are squeezing the very poor, out of nothing but sheer greed. How is it greedier and more feckless for a poor person to spend what they have on fags and booze than it is for a multinational to increase profits and give hefty payouts, despite the fact that those they are 'waiting with hand held out' to are on below living wage?
How is a desire to heat a family house to a tolerable standard a greater 'massive sense of entitlement' than shareholders thinking they 'deserve' ever increasing handouts for doing sod all.
Perhaps if the rich 'put money aside over the summer when heating bills are low' they would realise they have more than enough to licve comfortably and therefore don't need to 'be waiting with their hand held out' to the very poor who exist on zero hours contracts or minimum wage.
married you are aware aren't you that feckless, entitled multinationals pay minimum wage because they know they can 'wait with their hands held out' and a 'sense of massive entitlement' while they scrounge from the government, relying on them to top up wages with tax credits.
I'd be enormously grateful if you'd reply to these issues married and explain why it's OK to demand cash whilst giving nothing back if you are already wealthy and powerful but morally abhorrent if you are already poor and struggling.
(And just in case you think I'm a bitter, entitled wastrel, ftr I am one of the very fortunate ones, financially, socially, educationally, geographically - all that. It's just I don't think my sense of entitlement is more justified than anyone else's just because I can bray for England and pull strings if I choose.)