A country where people don't ask what am I entitled to but rather.....

[RustyBucket]

What are my responsibilities....

Cracking line, hope they are going to crack down on the "entitled" culture, it is all over this board like a rash at the best of times.

ninjacat for pm

I agree expat, I think too many people are interpreting "Big Society" as just being about getting "lazy benefit scroungers back into work"

I think all of us have to ask ourselves do we need that child benefit, tax credit etc and if not just don;t claim it. In tough times many of us need to ask ourselves can I regularly donate an amount of money to a charity that has had to cut its budget?

Yes, we should really means test ourselves, katy - that would be cheaper.

there are..............wait for it

17 jobs posted "any time" that are 16-30hours a week, within a 15 mile radius on my job centre plus (past experience says that apart from the county council website for lunchtime supervisor/teaching assistant posts thats the place that has the most jobs posted that are "local")

'Expat how would you know I am not looking for work?'

Well, you said you were a SAHM.

And you can't expect people on a board this size to automatically know you are disabled.

You have to work round your disability, lone parents have to work round childcare issues, and, obviously, can't take on certain shifts if they are low-income because of the lack of childcare for evenings and overnight work.

when I was still with exH we gave up buying the local paper.......there's only a job section once a week and it the one page of jobs (proper ones) and one page of "earn £300-1000k a week" type ads was a waste of 40p....

Exactly Herbietea, you are in an impossible situation. Logistically and financially its near impossible for a single parent to work. Its difficult enough for a 2 parent family where both are high earners.....

I have 4 children and we pay something like 2k+ per month in childcare fees. A job in tesco would not get us very far at all.

herbie the moment you humanise someone you find a reason why they are entitled.

You are able to de-humanise people you have no knowledge of and decide they are not entitled.

Lets sort out the excess of the city before we even consider clawing anything back from the unemployed.

But you have four children because you can afford them, that is a luxury very few of us can afford. I am only just reaching a situation where I can afford a second child.

Rusty that was a bloody awful thing to say, regret agree with your more moderate earlier posts now....

you see that's what riles me about the "well they should just take any job" type comments - as you say if you've got children then "any old job" may well not be enoug to pay for the bills, the food, the childcare......

yet apparently we're all supposed to run out and start cleaning toilets at 6am for 10hrs a week just so they we can feel betters about themselves- ourselves.

Wow- I thought RustyB was RustyBear... she's is going to be a little upset by this noob.

• thank you CaptainNancy for pointing that out - I hadn't registered that and was thinking I don't recall "rusty" being like this before........but am terrible at remembering names - I think I sometimes mix you and Nancy66 (?) up

Who really wants to sit on their arse and watch tv whilst claiming? Lets talk self esteem, hope for a better future, supply of training, supply of meaningful employment...

I would prefer a single mother gave her time and attention to her children than to Tesco and I'm more than happy to pay for that.

Ninja I have to say there are moments I would love to sit on my arse and watch TV. Instead I work on average 15 hours a day and in return can't afford to have a second child, am a crap mother to the one I have as I am always working and buying a house is a pipe dream.

I don't sit and watch TV - I sit and MN/FB

(DS3 does the TV watching )

Sorry Kerry I was quoting the tv thing.

"By RustyBucket Tue 11-May-10 23:03:31
If I was DC the first thing I would do would be to reform the single parents allowance, or the unmarried mothers or whatever its called. WELL APART FROM THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXIST SO THAT WOULD MAKE IT TRICKY

Any girl can make a mistake once and have a child, after that it is stupidity and greed. NO, STUPIDITY IS BELIEVING WHAT YOU ARE FED BY THE RIGHT WING MEDIA WITHOUT CHECKING OR THINKING

I am not talking about people who were married and then find themselves single, I am talking about the silly little who got PG, get a flat, fail to settle into a stable relationship but manage to procreate with every man who comes along. LET'S HOPE THEY DON'T TAX BLIND PREJUDICED STUPIDITY OR IGNORANT NARROW-MINDEDNESS OR YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE DEAR

OMG Harpy - where have you been

I have a feeling that the new DC government is going to make a lot more people unemployed so there will be an even bigger audience for Jeremy Kyle shortly....

Kerry? sorry Katy