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Originally Posted by Less
I wonder if the people using that trust are of the same calibre as some druggies I overheard the other day in my local, the lass behind the bar didn't know that these guys were banned, but by heck the landlord chased them out as soon as he came up from his cellar and saw them there, he has zero tolerance of this type of person.
Anyway, they were talking about the amount of money they saved by going to the food bank bragging to each other about how they spent none of their benefits on essentials using all they got for their drugs & booze.
So maybe these centres are just encouraging low life to remain low life, no doubt taking the charity needed by people genuinely in need?
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Less, you are so right.
I was in the post office getting Ma's pension and I had seen a couple of young men outside taking their prescribed methadone(I always thought they hadn't to consume it in front of the pharmacist so that hey couldn't sell it) and one was advising the other to go to Maundy for a bag of food essentials.
Food banks do not encourage people to take responsibility for their financial and budgetary needs.
I can see them being useful in only a narrow set of circumstances.
If anyone watched the program on Channel 4 about a Birmingham street where many of the residents are on benefits....have no intention of working, (but then maybe that program is Tory propaganda - I'm sure our esteemed member from over the border will tell us) and the young couple who we're claiming benefits if 1500 quid a week, could afford fags, booze, and yet still thought they were hard done by.
This is your version of poverty is it C'Mon?
I know what real poverty is. I lived through it growing up....there were no benefits....but we didn't rob from others. We got off our backsides and sorted ourselves out as a matter of pride.