To think some posters need a "reality check" re. views on benefit changes

[lesley33]

I have some concerns about some of the proposed changes to benefits and how these may adversely affect people. So this is NOT a thread about that. But I am getting increasingly fed up at some of the frankly ridiculous reasons some posters are giving against the proposed changes. Examples include:

1. That children 12 and over will be traumatised if both parents work - even if second parent only works 20 hours a week.

1. That a parent with children 12 and over shouldn't have to commute up to 90 minutes each way to work. Far from ideal I know and if someone is on low wages this might not be affordable. But perfectly doable.

1. That childcare is impossible to get for teenagers. Ignoring the fact that many parents, myself included use a combination of kids home alone and afterschool activities.

AIBU to think some people need a reality check? Plenty of people with children already work, many with both parents working full time by the time their kids are teenagers. Plenty of people have long commutes, struggle with childcare, etc. Things might not be "ideal", but these are things that many many working parents already do.

So that came afterwards?! You've stuck by through thick and thin - probably a good job AnyFucker wasn't around in those days ;-)

The First Gulf War, that's going back some! That was 1990-1991 right? Jeez, 22 bloody years ago!!! Makes me feel old because I remember watching the announcment of the war on TV at University, all of crowding someone's tiny TV set

I bet HM the Queen has a plasma telly.

I love Caitlin Moran, and I have no confidence whatsoever that a scalpel will be used when it is so easy to take general aim with a sledgehammer at a minority unjustly held in such contempt.

OhDo

a benefit basher will continue to insist that the minority are the majority i havent seem anyone write that, have i missed something or is it what you understood from what someone had written?

Communication on MN can be very confused. when i posted about DPs mum up thread, it was about talking with him that his mothers life had not only been bad luck & suffering. that she had lived a good life & had decades of happiness. the alternative was to let him continue to spiral downwards in grief. having got such a negative response from my post, i asked him if i had done anything wrong to him in reminding him that it wasnt all bad. he said 'of course not', wondered why i enquired, & when told it was from MN asked me why i bothered.

His mum was a v brave women & held on until one of her children had had major brain surgery. of course i didnt tell her that to think. but there werent many posters who were actually interested in what really happened.