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Originally Posted by jambutty
Blazey you are talking a load of codswallop as usual. Cocooned as you are in university, which mine and others of my era’s taxes paid for, you have no idea of the real world.
Far too many employers only pay the minimum wage because that is all the law says that they have to, in the full knowledge that if it was left to market forces they would HAVE TO PAY MORE. No one blames the employer for paying less than the real going rate. So don’t blame the worker for not wanting to work when more can be had on state benefits.
The real blames lies with the top 10% grabbing 90% for themselves.
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No idea of the real world? I am at university even though I studied at subject at college which said I'd be a criminal, pregnant and on the dole by 20. I have had to cope with the stereotypes of being from a single parent family and I know EXACTLY what its like to have to struggle for money, so dont get all high and mighty with me about your bloody pension
All I'm saying is that its bad to promote benefits as being an easier option when they aren't at all. One lad showed me up infront of my entire class at college by saying 'you should make your mum get a job.' just because I had it a bit easier by getting £30 a week EMA which went on travel and supplies, whilst he drove around in his brand new car paid for by daddy and complained non-stop, all because people like you say its easier to be on benefits. Well it isn't easier, it's a load of crap. What would you know about being a single mother in todays society living off benefits? Because I'm pretty damn sure I know a lot more than you about what its like today.
Then at uni I have to cope with snobs, one of which being my own friend who thought it odd that I didnt assume she had an ensuite bathroom at home. There IS pride of being able to fund things for yourself even if it is less than benefits. If you think otherwise then its the older generation that are letting society down, not the youth who are being taught no better.