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Originally Posted by Less
I would think any real cheats, are still getting away with it, that figure of 8,000 that you bandy about could be because of 8,000 different reasons and not because they were cheats. I can't prove it one way or the other and neither can you, but I won't agree that a system that picks on the genuinely needy at the same time as supposedly targeting the cheats is the right way to go.
Nor do I think someone that has needed to be kept on benefits can be so selfish as to say that it's wrong to provide the same security they got to others that may be equally or even more needy.
What is it they say about evil triumphing when good men do nothing?
Well, there are a great many 'good' men willing to sacrifice others that deserve the same as they got.
Not to worry though, once a society stops looking after it's weak and hinting that they are the cause of the not so weak, having problems, it's not long before the powers extend the definitions of those they consider weak and useless.
Perhaps coming to a situation like yours at just the stroke of a pen?
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I ask again how would you suggest we stop this benefit fraud, you only say what shouldn't be done, exactly what's been going on for years and allowed to escalate out of all proportions.