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Post by tiddles on Mar 31, 2013 15:31:46 GMT 1
www.inverclydenow.com/today/9161-living-wage-at-river-clyde-homesWell even shite has some good in it. To my certain knowledge, the Tories would love to scrap the minimum wage and would have done but for the fact that that most of the LibDem Cabinet Ministers would have resigned. Of course Cleggy boy would have let it go...! Thank God for UKIP, they'll split the Tory vote and hopefully both parties will disappear up the creek. Power to the people..the REAL people and not just the demented bastards who read the Daily Mail!
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Post by myfindhorn on Apr 3, 2013 3:08:08 GMT 1
Well I am sure if you put it in context, one one hand a living wage is £7.45 a hour and a living benefit is £7 15p a day.........................thats what the bold Ian Duncan Smith says and he can live on that ( if he has too) what can one say.
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Post by tiddles on Apr 3, 2013 15:46:11 GMT 1
It makes me angry when I hear pensioners complaining about benefit scroungers when they are also living on benefits. In fact, the largest amount of money spent by the DWP is for Retirement Pensions. Now I'm not advocating taking away the pension but I am suggesting that there are some pretty hypocritical old people out there. Just the other week I overheard some of my mother's church cronies going on about, 'all the people on disability, draining the country'. The fact that they take their pension yet live in a huge villa in Gourock and drip with money makes me want to call them a few names.
They'd claim that they earned their pension but then the people on here who find themselves chronically sick and disabled earned their benefits too so what's the difference?
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Post by samfregreenock on Apr 3, 2013 16:06:49 GMT 1
It makes me angry when I hear pensioners complaining about benefit scroungers when they are also living on benefits. In fact, the largest amount of money spent by the DWP is for Retirement Pensions. Now I'm not advocating taking away the pension but I am suggesting that there are some pretty hypocritical old people out there. Just the other week I overheard some of my mother's church cronies going on about, 'all the people on disability, draining the country'. The fact that they take their pension yet live in a huge villa in Gourock and drip with money makes me want to call them a few names. They'd claim that they earned their pension but then the people on here who find themselves chronically sick and disabled earned their benefits too so what's the difference? It's an age-related concept, turning elderly absolves you of all reasoning, the ability to see beyond thur ain nose It's worse than dementia so it is, my grannie was affected in a similar fashion |
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Post by myfindhorn on Apr 3, 2013 23:23:08 GMT 1
I was in Tesco one day when a wee woman went up to the cigarette counter, she asked for 200 cigs and £18 in scratch cards, my mouth was wide opened. Obviously she had a few addictions.
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