Well, has this thread gone on for too long or what?
Yes, there are dole scroungers.
Yes, there are people pretending and turning up for medicals and extracting the urine, then claiming the maximum that they can because somehow they know how to fiddle the system.
Strange as it may seem though they are not the majority,
most people on benifits are
not there from choice.
Because there are some people that will never, ever, work no matter what incentives are offered them we all tend to lump the unemployed together,
This is wrong!
Most of the Genuine unemployed could be on permanent sickness benifit but they don't realise it, most of the people on incapacity should be claiming the benifits that are allowed for the disabled but foolish pride stops them from claiming.
Why? because they already feel they have failed, they do not need those getting four to five times as much as they do while in regular employment looking down on them, they feel small enough!
I keep reading on here about a 55 year old engineer that should be willing to re-train, the poor sod, he knows that he is trying hard to get a place back amongst his fellow workers, he probably has a few wrinkles and tips he could pass on, but come the interview, (if he wasn't foolish enough to put his age on his C.V.), he is quickly nudged onto the 'too old' pile, yes I know by law that shouldn't happen but it still does!
The same 55 year old has possibly been paying into the system with those weekly contributions called National Insurance when he was younger he didn't need to claim, now he's older he's brought a family up half killed himself on that journey through life and now that he, (regretfully), has to use that insurance, is treated like a scrounger.
Hang your heads in shame, not for stating that the system needs cleaning up but because you seem to have put all in that situation into the category of scroungers.
It's not true but it is a very easy and simplistic thing to do.