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   GaryC wrote:

  David.
  
  "The Eight Bells is full of people drinking and smoking whilst living in poverty"
  
  Do only people living in poverty drink in the Eight Bells?
  
  I find it odd that the benefit system is condemned because 1% of claimants abuse the system.

  
  
  Gary, why did you bring the disabled into the equation?
  
  I have never said ALL claimants are "at it", I have never said everybody in the 8 Bells is unemployed.
  
  Kath raises a good point that almost 200 years ago there people abusing the system and still do. My whole point is that when the welfare state was introduced it bore no resemblance to what it is today.

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