What do you think of people on benefits who purchase luxuries?

Posts like this sicken me. So the answer is what? Completely destroy those on the bottom of society in order to make them poor enough to make you feel better? Do you want the poor on the streets and dying of disease? Without food and shelter? Just because that's the way it should be to make tiresome individuals like you be able to sleep well at night knowing you're not in their situation? What?

Most of what you wrote is right-wing gutter press fantasy anyway, Have you actually been on any council estates recently? Because they haven't suddenly transformed into miniature palaces. I'm really glad that, while struggling, the poor of this country aren't living in complete destitution, but evidently if you had your way that'd be the case.

Two options to tackle this. Improve pay for those in work or force the jobless back into prostitution.

I am not having a rant at disabled people who are unable to work, I am referring to people who are unemployed.

In my opinion the unemployed should not be entitled to holidays and other luxury items. There are plenty of people who go out to work each day, pay their taxes, take the bare minimum from the state and are still unable to afford such luxuries. Why should someone who is not working be entitled to things that normal people aren't?


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Lol at TV a luxury, is a freezer a luxury? A basic LCD TV, let alone a used one, is very cheap these days. I mean these people have no work, anyone out of work for some time knows it can be pretty soul destroying applying for job after job, rejections, or just no responses. God forbid someone is able to have any time relaxing watching some entertainment on freeview. Same with a laptop, laptop or desktop, the internet is crucial for modern day life, the internet is a key aspect of job hunting these days, I mean I'm not saying its a human right, but damn the internet is becoming as important as electricity to modern life. A cheap laptop is often cheaper than a desktop, so again, so wrong someone has one?

Also if someone loses their job, so they should sell all their possessions and sit in an empty room staring at the wall as punishment, because it sure as hell sounds like that's what many people here want.

It's just ******* hilarious really. Middle/Upper class teenagers/twenty somethings who have no clue about the real world, no loans you don't have to pay back for an age to carry you, or the bank/home of mummy and daddy. Those disgusting lower class individuals, how dare they have any sort of life, they are not in employment and this time and when one is not a net contributor to the nations coffers, one gives up all of ones human rights, for one is but an animal....yeah, sure thing. Hope to hell there's never another economic downturn which impacts on your profession, though I assume to stand by the courage of your convictions you'll take a long walk off a short pier as you'd rather die than be one of those scum accepting state support.

I dont think either is applicable. I think that "the poor" are well catered for in this country though there will be some exceptions such as single white males who, if they fall on hard times, are left to rot in the gutter for they have no priority for housing or welfare.