the issue is one of entitlement.
The problem is that people in this country have never lived somewhere where they can't fall back on the government if they find themselves out of work, and where, let's be frank, it is possible to choose to not work for a living.
There was a woman on bbc news earlier this evening saying that if a benefits cap comes into force she will lose £600 a week. 
she wasn't your typical daily mail case either - but that means that she is earning £1100 a week - that's a total of £57200 a year - tax free. That puts her in the top 1% of earners in the country - courtesey of the taxpayer. And people are ok with this?
The problem is that people seem to be either on one side or another - there seems to be no middle ground or the ability to find middle ground.
Benefits should be there for people who have no other choice but to claim them. People who fall on hard times due to job loss/illness/disability which makes them incapable of work (and not all disability equals unable to work).
Yes there are people out there who cannot work and who have no other choice but to claim benefits. But there are equally lots of people who are perfectly capable of work and who choose not to, and I include some disabled in that - I know plenty of people with disabilities who don't work simply because the government facilitates them not doing so.
Now I concede that it is more difficult for some people with disabilities to find work, and that in some cases a disability might preclude one from doing certain jobs (I could never be a driving instructor, for instance), and I also believe that the government should revise the access to work scheme to make it less easy for employers (especially larger companies) to discriminate, however I don't believe that being registered disabled should automatically mean that you should be able to claim whatever benefits without the question being asked as to whether you are capable of work.
Equally I think that the workfare scheme which allow larger companies to essentially hire an unpaid workforce should be scrapped thus enabling more people to be employed properly as opposed to being exploited to the financial gain of tesco and the like.
Benefits should be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice. And it should never be possible to earn more on benefits than you earn in a paid job.
People need to start taking responsibility for themselves as much as anything. Questions have been asked as to how this will affect larger families - well if you've found yourself needing benefits and you have a large family then that should be taken into account. But if you're already on benefits and struggling to survive then why on earth should the taxpayer pay for you to keep having children?
Maybe it needs to be dealt with in a different way, but the fact is that previous government spending has got us into a situation where more drastic action needs to be taken.