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| Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe Oh 'wise up'. Our benefit system is not the free-for-all hand out that people say it is. Living on benefit alone is not a good standard of living. It is not an easy life. |
Maybe we will have to agree to differ on that. My wife works in a benefits related job (yes, in the public sector) and could perhaps persuade you otherwise.
We all know where and how benefits are being misapropriated. The bonafide claimants would feel less stigmatised if the whole lot was cleaned up.
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As for your suggestion that the public sector simply lounge around, what lobbox. I work in the public sector. My current job is the most challenging one I have ever had. I see all around me dedicated people working long hours to deliver more for less each year. Sure we have dead wood - but with increasingly poor central government settlements we won't have dead wood for much longer.
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It was a poor generalisation. But again, we all know where and how non-jobs are created without reference to common sense.
I do not doubt your own work ethic nor do I wish to be rude but I know of many people who work very hard in jobs that don't need doing. I also know many people who don't do the job they are paid to do, at least not for the 8 hours a day they are paid for.
Sorry I've read the Daily Mail again......
