It always amazes me.
Taking people with (real) disabilities out of it, the people who take the most from this country put in the least. Often due to lack of interest in education and work. Many people choose not to work, or to work very little, choose not to value education and training and then claim benefits, taking tens, if not hundreds of thousands from the state over a lifetime.
Taking people who inherited big wealth out of it, the people who take the least are those who work and who have put education and training first and who have chosen to get jobs, work long hours, go for promotions etc and these people tend to be entitled to nothing, despite what they put in.
The people living largely on benefits however sometimes believe that they are entitled to more free money, as they want a lifestyle equal to what the working people have. So they demand the working people pay even more into the system, so it can be handed to them.
The working people sometimes don’t want to pay more as this reduces their standard of living, to not much better than non-working people, which makes all of their hard work redundant and pointless. That student loan - pointless. Those long hours - pointless. That training and upskilling - pointless.
The Labour government for some reason seem to side with the people who want to live off benefits. I have no idea why?
The working people are told they should want to work hard for the benefit of the country and business and to have efficient and modern services, but they shouldn’t expect recompense.
It’s all very weird to me. Surely a line should be drawn between support and dependancy …if we reduced benefits, taking them entirely away for people who weren’t born here and who haven’t been here over say 10 years, more people would want (need) to work. And if we allowed working people to keep more of their money, there would be even more desire to train and progress and services and business would benefit and the country would develop faster?
Our benefits bill is staggering. Surely a welfare country is not a good thing. Ok, it can be argued that reducing or withdrawing welfare could push some people further into poverty, I’d argue that unless there is a good reason they aren’t working, that’s on them. Accountability. Responsibility.
But, because Labour do not think the same as me, we will just see the welfare bill grow instead. At some point it will become pointless to work…me myself, I work full time, but to save money I am dropping down to four days. How can that be right? lol. How does that benefit the country? There are too many safety nets and the safety nets are too big.
So what’s the point? Unless work buys me a house, nice holidays, a car, some luxuries, a social life etc…what’s the point?
So our Labour government I’m sure will make the problem worse and at the same time will be giving our taxes away for vanity projects, so yep. Wasteland.