First of all guys, this is an attention grabbing headline. I DO NOT subscribe to this awful statement, and others that are flying around about the tax credit cuts.
The Tory government have really pulled the wool over the eyes on a lot of people on this one.
Everyone out there seems to believe that these tax credit cuts are only hurting those unemployed. Anyone on tax credits is being deemed lazy, good for nothing benefit scroungers, and people are tired of paying for them.
No for one moment has anyone realised that 75% of those on TC's are actually working. But our jobs are so shittily paid, the TC's have topped us up so we can actually afford to buy some food.
Here's an article here about parents who are happy with the cuts:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/its-time-child-tax-credits-6035167
We are going to be worse off, and I know lots of you on here are going to be hit badly by these cuts, yet we work.
Is it our fault that we have low paid jobs? It is our fault that it costs so much to live in this country, our low paid job doesn't cover it?
I don't know if there's anything we can do, but I really don't want to sit here and do nothing and watch so many hard working families struggle. I'm tired of being broke as it is.
There's been comments flying around that 'if we'd all paid more attention in school, we could all have those better paid jobs'. Really smart arse? Then who does those low paid jobs? Who cleans your house? Who cleans your car? Who stacks those shelfs, or answers the phone to help you with your enquiry? Someone has to do these jobs, and these jobs aren't well paid. Does that mean because we're not 'bright' enough, or well educated enough, or not given the opportunities that you had, that we aren't able to have children?
By the way, it's rich people that have children. Poor people just breed.
Tax credits were there to help families with children, and workers on their low wages to top them up, so that they can have a better standard on living. More comments flying around is that maybe if we all got rid of our iPhones, Sky Packages, and stopped smoking, then maybe we would get by without benefits. Anyone been reading the Daily Mail too much??? I don't smoke, have an iPhone, or Sky. Our car is 15 years old. There is no lavish lifestyle on benefits here.
The Tory government have done a great job on painting us poor to be real scum, so when they came to cut the tax credits, they would all cheer.
And where is the compassion? Or is anyone not bright enough to see beyond what the newspapers want you to see.
I've been working since the age of 16. Paying my taxes for nearly 20 years. So I pay into the system, and when I need help, I can't take from it?
What if life was good, and wages were good, and we had our children, and then shit happened. We needed help. Should we not have had children? At what point are you so financially stable that you are allowed to have children?
Redundancies happen. Cancer happens. Shit happens. Where is the compassion from those so well off, that they could contribute to that system that helps those less fortunate. We have bugger all money, but I still put food in the food banks, as I know someone else is worse off than us.
How can we get across how much this is hurting the parents that are working? How can we change perceptions of that rich/poor divide?
We have to do something. The Nasty Party is well and truly back.