yes, in fact that's how i've funded various trips around the world in the past 4 years... solely from benefits from the good old uk tax payer. thanks for that.
Originally posted by normbenign The prospect of hunger and lack of shelter was always motivation enough for me.
Unless you are willing to see the poor begging on the street without public assistance, what you've said is totally useless. Unless you are willing to see kids, adults and the elderly starving to death in the US, what you say is totally useless.
You've got to come up with something that makes the best of a bad situation.
Originally posted by Eladar Unless you are willing to see the poor begging on the street without public assistance, what you've said is totally useless. Unless you are willing to see kids, adults and the elderly starving to death in the US, what you say is totally useless.
You've got to come up with something that makes the best of a bad situation.
Are you saying that parents will just carelessly decide not to feed their kids? Well perhaps there are some of that ilk.
During much of my working life I worked as many as three jobs, sometimes in excess of 90 hours a week. I fed my kids, never begged, and never took a government check.
I think a great many people would do the same, probably the majority, if it weren't so easy to get assistance.
Originally posted by sh76 The exact words from a client of mine.
He's making $12/hr. His employer would raise him to $20, but the increase in salary would be more than offset by a loss in programs eligibility.
He didn't tell this to me, but reading between the lines, his employer probably slips him a few bucks under the table.
This idea of basing government programs solely on income tests need a re-thinking.
Well, when you're earning 12$ an hour, an incrase of nearly 50% can have disasterous effects on subsidies. When you're earning 300$ an hour, a 50% increase just means you have to be creative with your taxes.
Originally posted by normbenign Are you saying that parents will just carelessly decide not to feed their kids? Well perhaps there are some of that ilk.
During much of my working life I worked as many as three jobs, sometimes in excess of 90 hours a week. I fed my kids, never begged, and never took a government check.
I think a great many people would do the same, probably the majority, if it weren't so easy to get assistance.
You seem to be under the impression that anyone who wants a job can get one. In an era when Western governments have abandoned the goal of full employment, this is not true.
Originally posted by Teinosuke You seem to be under the impression that anyone who wants a job can get one. In an era when Western governments have abandoned the goal of full employment, this is not true.
You seem to be under the impression that someone owes someone else a job, they don't. It's not the role of guvamint to make some individuals employ other individuals.
Originally posted by Teinosuke You seem to be under the impression that anyone who wants a job can get one. In an era when Western governments have abandoned the goal of full employment, this is not true.
There are many opportunities for 'self-emplpoyment' in the UK, but why bother to work when you can so easily sign on for generous rewards for doing nothing?
The Eastern European immigrants to the UK seem to have no difficulty in finding employment.
Originally posted by Wajoma You seem to be under the impression that someone owes someone else a job, they don't. It's not the role of guvamint to make some individuals employ other individuals.
Governments can pursue economic policies which encourage, or discourage, employment. This is not the same as "making some individuals employ others".
Originally posted by Teinosuke Governments can pursue economic policies which encourage, or discourage, employment. This is not the same as "making some individuals employ others".
Wajoma has long since been reduced to attacking his own facile caricatures of what other people are talking about. He reckons he "kicks butt" with this approach. I am unconvinced myself.
Originally posted by FMF Wajoma has long since been reduced to attacking his own facile caricatures of what other people are talking about. He reckons he "kicks butt" with this approach. I am unconvinced myself.
Originally posted by retiarius There are many opportunities for 'self-emplpoyment' in the UK, but why bother to work when you can so easily sign on for generous rewards for doing nothing?
The Eastern European immigrants to the UK seem to have no difficulty in finding employment.
yes because everyone has the business sense to become self-employed.
most eastern europeans who come over have a job lined up already, mostly in the hospitably or factory industries. jobs that british seem to think they're above doing, not to mention the general consensus that people from eastern europe have a much higher work ethic that british people, it's not hard to see why so many employers look at eastern europe for a hard working reliable work force, they just can't find it in the uk.
the uk economy would totally collapse if the eastern european work force was force to go home.
"I can't afford to take a larger salary"
03 Aug '11 04:56
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