No child in this country should be going hungry! My daughter is 17 and has a 6 month old baby, and the Government is throwing money at them both. She gets over £800 a month in benefits for being an unmarried teenager who has never had a job. It's a farce, no wonder the teenage pregnancy rate is so high.
No, she spends it on designer clothes!!!! The baby never goes hungry, but she has far too much money for herself.
She gets the equvalent of some peoples wage a month for doing nothing, it makes me mad. It's not just her, most of her friends now have babies, and why not? The money is too good to miss.
The system makes it hard for teenagers to go to work because whats the point if you are going to end up worse off. You are now getting 3 generations in my area who have never worked in some families. Its a disgrace and the whole things needs looked at. Its too easy for people to stay out of work through choice.
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This and probably the last generation couldnt give a hoot about pride and thats half the problem!!! Its comes very easy to most these days to just decide they would rather get benefits than take pride in themselves.
If you used food vouchers only so that people on benefits couldnt buy fags and booze and in some cases drugs you would soon find a few more folk willing to try out working for a living!!!
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I forgot to mention that we also get our meat from the local butchers and we have fish delivered every few months fresh from Grimsby.
I also agree that food vouchers would be a good idea.
How do you prove to Save the Children that you are in food poverty? As I said before, the amount of junk food I see in people's trolley's which is not healthy. The kids won't eat the healthy stuff.
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I grew up with both my parents on benefits (dad was disabled and mum was his carer) and it made me determined to work as if you're genuinely in need the help isn't there and it's a struggle.
What annoys me is the fact that the Government/BOE think they are wonderful for cutting interest rates, but this just weakens the pound and forces prices up of imports and goods sold in dollars (ie. oil) and euros!!
Not forgetting a 2p rise in fuel duty, when Gordon Brown said last JULY that he would not be raising fuel duty for at least 12 months.... somebody better get him a calendar!
At least the fuel companies do something for their money - find the oil and do whatever they have to do to turn it into petrol, run the petrol stations, pay staff - while the government just sit back and rake it in. I seem to remember reading that about 80% of what we pay in petrol is tax!
You're right as well Skippy, the majority of the money we pay at the pumps goes back to the government.
I'm dreading the budget - Gordon Brown has got to start clawing back all this money he has borrowed, and all the money he has pledged to the 'developing countries' (what about looking after your own country first?) so I suppose we will be hammered by new taxes.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
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