Living on 53 quid a week
- 8 April 2013 12:43224377Don't you find it frustrating DT1?
Read this thread, triballism, name calling, claim and counter claim, but ask anybody what IDS has cut and you'll get a blank expression. - 8 April 2013 12:44224380ids has cut and pasted his whole life, that will do for starters.
- 8 April 2013 12:52224383See what I mean?
- 8 April 2013 12:55224386Yes I find it frustrating from some and I never deny the calls for reform. However, it is the ramifications that are my concern and perhaps our leaders should be prepared to be generalised, even marginalised themselves in the way they do to others.
I can also say that there are no blank expressions in my house. But as I say the actual implications are yet to be seen.
Right I'm having a break from everything left and right for a few days...probably best considering. - 8 April 2013 13:06224390this thread is about the 53 quid boast david, wider issues are on other threads.
- 8 April 2013 13:13224395The £53 then is just a fantasy as no-one is expected to live on that, including the fool who raised the question with IDS. That makes this a totally pointless post then Howard.
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8 April 2013 14:25224419well why dosent ids put his mouth where the money isnt. - 8 April 2013 15:08224431
- 8 April 2013 22:01224466Barry, the Government expects many people between 16 and 24 to live off £53 a week.
And expects people to work for nothing as a way of not losing their benefits.
It's become a sad joke!Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 9 April 2013 06:01224473Most young people (not all obviously, as we have a good number living in various houses along the Folkestone Road paid for by us, via KCC and the Government) live at home with their parents and don't contribute to many household costs and so much of that JSA money becomes pocket money.
I know it is a different world now to that when I was in that age range, but only because we have allowed it to become one - as parents, as society and as politicians.
Roger - 9 April 2013 06:25224474No Howard - you know very well that is not all they get.
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9 April 2013 07:05224476barry,other benifits they get is a differant matter,its tha cash in hand that we are talking about.ids will to make do with it,speng the money on gas,electric,food,cloathing and water/sewage costs. - Keith Sansum1
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9 April 2013 08:16224485Well said post 193ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 9 April 2013 09:50224504barry what else do they get other than housing benefit if applicable?
- 9 April 2013 13:31224567Roger, you write: "but only because we have allowed it to become one - as parents, as society and as politicians."
The world as you describe it here, referring to the 22% youth unemployment in Britain, can also be extended to the 67% youth unemployment in Greece.
Gosh, it was 60% a few months back, and 50% a year ago, in Greece.
Before that it was at 40%, and previously 30%...
Or take Spain's 60% youth unemployment. It had been a lot lower, but rises continually.
Or take Ireland, or one of many other countries.
Politicians have failed, but don't want the situation to change.
Politicians drive people into despair, probably because they receive a wage to live off and it doesn't hit them personally.
There is no point arguing anymore, and my impression is that of blatant sabotage.
Let's face the facts, Roger, politicians don't want change, what they want is a political system.
You may find indeed, that the day will come when young people currently unemployed will be working and planting every available patch of land with food, and the Government rationing food and making sure everyone does their part.
When this merry system has reached its merry-go-round conclusion and reality catches up.
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 9 April 2013 15:36224575We have reality now Alexander and although not ideal, the best were likely to get.
The best way for young people to get out/stay out, of poverty, is to get a good education, not play truant, not leave school early, but learn a skill or profession.
Roger - 9 April 2013 15:47224577What's that Roger, there should be an upper age limit for Voting, set at a maximum of 21 years old?
Is it only as infants they become the architects of their own misfortune, or is this now to be an added extra facet to puberty?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 9 April 2013 18:43224593What have I put that would suggest that Tom ?
I don't consider teenagers as infants either.
Roger - 9 April 2013 18:43224594Sorry double post.
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9 April 2013 18:45224596but some of them act like one.