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to not want people to judge those who recieve benefits????

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TidyTink · 18/02/2008 21:21

Im a single mother of one,

i was working up until my DD (3) was born, rather than take a part time job that i knew i would always be stuck in i decided to get to college and study asubject that will lead me to a very hard working and well paid job so that i can fully support my DD in the future.

I hate recieving benefits and cannot wait untill i have finished my degree

Once i start at work i will be paying enough taxes in the future to more than cover the benefits ive recieved over the few yrs.

So why does everyone assume your a complete waste of space?? not all of us take advantage of the system!!!!

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skyatnight · 21/02/2008 00:14

Lots of low-paid jobs going as au pairs and nannies then.

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:14

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Quattrocento · 21/02/2008 00:15

Well make that a global policy and that'd cure over-population, Expat

A bit right-wing as a solution for me, but hey.

BTW I find the Daily Mail very offensive

As offensive as you find responsibility, it seems ...

Tortington · 21/02/2008 00:16

quattro - in an ideal world one would have their life relatively sorted before they breought another into the world

i however missed that train and was fucking at age 16 and became pregnant.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:16

I want an ugly house I could call my own.

I want one as cold as this one, as old as this one, and if she were mine, I'd love her as such, she knows that.

I will bank the fire, house on the rise, before I go to bed. I know your name.

You are never cold to me. You are never a summer house, for real love has no season.

But I have only this to give you
It is not much and it is everything.

I knew you for what you were
And yet I loved you.

Say that for him
Then tell me to go.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:16

I want an ugly house I could call my own.

I want one as cold as this one, as old as this one, and if she were mine, I'd love her as such, she knows that.

I will bank the fire, house on the rise, before I go to bed. I know your name.

You are never cold to me. You are never a summer house, for real love has no season.

But I have only this to give you
It is not much and it is everything.

I knew you for what you were
And yet I loved you.

Say that for him
Then tell me to go.

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:18

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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:18

In an ideal fucking world, I'd win a fucking a fucking 4.5m at lotto and take £250,000 to buy myself a decent house, and another £200,000 to see my kin off.

and the rest I'd just give fucking custy and Rhu and the like a goddamn break and then kick back with the lot and have a good ceilidh and they'd go their way and I'd go mine and who gives?

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:19

In an ideal fucking world, I'd win a fucking a fucking 4.5m at lotto and take £250,000 to buy myself a decent house, and another £200,000 to see my kin off.

and the rest I'd just give fucking custy and Rhu and the like a goddamn break and then kick back with the lot and have a good ceilidh and they'd go their way and I'd go mine and who gives?

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:19

In an ideal fucking world, I'd win a fucking a fucking 4.5m at lotto and take £250,000 to buy myself a decent house, and another £200,000 to see my kin off.

and the rest I'd just give fucking custy and Rhu and the like a goddamn break and then kick back with the lot and have a good ceilidh and they'd go their way and I'd go mine and who gives?

Quattrocento · 21/02/2008 00:19

Oh god, Expat's been at the wine again and gone surreal

Glad we agree Custy.

Scramble · 21/02/2008 00:19

Thats not quite as poetic

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:19

Yes, it's my own work.

I work working for others who need my help.

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:19

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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:20

Poets are insufferable.

They truly are.

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:20

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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:21

There's no ideal world, though. There's people who need help and are willing to pay for it, that's all.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:22

I'm a loser. I'm only talented in that I help people out of some tight spots because I'm good at bullshit late at night.

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:22

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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:23

Yes, yes I do. That's how I get my living.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:23

Yes, yes I do. That's how I get my living.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 00:24

WHY does this damn thing keep duplicating my posts?!

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:24

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soapbox · 21/02/2008 00:25

Ah well, you lot can keep your ideal worlds - I prefer the world that flexes for the frailty of human kind. The crap choices, the poor decisions the hopelessness - all an intrinsic part of humankind.

There is a lot I would change, fiscally, if I ran the country, but I believe that the mark of a 'good' society is the way it which it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members. Although now and again some tough love might creep in to my policy making

wineisthewaytomyheart · 21/02/2008 00:25

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