Should benefits be scrapped ?

[GommeInc]

EMA should be for poor people, as in children who really can't afford to go to their educational establishment. Same with child benefits, the mother, father or both parents should get money only if they cannot work for mental or physical reasons or don't get enough money to pay for the child. If the parents get child benefits, the child doesn't get EMA, bbecause the benfits should be linked to that, not for personal use. Again, this depends on the severity of the situation, be it money or personal reasons i.e. mental physical reasons. Most of the people I know really don't deserve EMA and some mums and dads don't deserve benefits. Heck, maybe not give them money. Perhaps it should be done on a trust fund basis, where you write to the government and ask for them to pay for the transport or equipment or even school, rather than get more money than you need.

[buttons]

Hello again,

Buttons you said about ema ect. Why not get a job ? Thats what people like me have to do. This si why it annoys me. Why should i get nothing and be texed like hell. When others get £30 for nothing. When i go to collage i wont get £30 a week i will have to work for my money.

who said i don't have a job? i've had a job before but we got sacked for the polish people lol! it's hard to get a job when you're only 15 & theres not much choice here, it's hard for my brother to get a job and he's 19. plus i'm going to school and i'm getting paid i don't really need a job, it's up to me. thx

[Ramones]

MAKE THE RICH RICHER
AND MAKE THE POOR POORER!

[flyingbrick]

We're on the brink of a recession, unemployment levels are rising, and you want benefits scrapped?!

I wonder how many of you commenting in here do work full time and actually pay taxes.

Yeah, its not right that the odd failed abortion uses it to get out of working, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't support the thousands who are trying to get a job, but can't because there isn't enough going around.

Scrap it - your parents taxes might fall by a few p, but we'd have one of the highest homelessness rates in the developed world.

It pains me to think what would happen should the conservatives win the next goddamn election.

[Maxine-ox]

The worlds unfair, get over it is my only response to this thread.

[jrh2002]

We're on the brink of a recession, unemployment levels are rising, and you want benefits scrapped?!

I wonder how many of you commenting in here do work full time and actually pay taxes.

Yeah, its not right that the odd failed abortion uses it to get out of working, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't support the thousands who are trying to get a job, but can't because there isn't enough going around.

Scrap it - your parents taxes might fall by a few p, but we'd have one of the highest homelessness rates in the developed world.

It pains me to think what would happen should the conservatives win the next goddamn election.

I quite like the credit crunch and seeing gordon brown squirm :p hes looking very old and ill now so if we are lucky he will have a stroke or something :eusa_danc doesnt really effect me and i wont be changing my lifestyle because i have to pay a few pounds a week extra to live how i always do.

I think the people who are benefits are the ones who see their hard earned wages taxed to death and then spent on laze wastes of space

There should be a limit of 1 years job seekers benefit in a lifetime and after that you should only be able to claim it if you have built up enough funds by paying tax and national insurance which proves you have worked hard and deserve something back when stuck not like these people who think its right to claim benefits for life.

There are plenty of jobs out there but i cant guarantee you will walk straight into your dream job on 35k a year how about if the job seekers went and got a job at tesco on 14k a year? when they go to that interview for a job they really fancy on more money im sure the company will have alot more respect for you if you have been working.

Why should people who dont have kids pay towards the upkeep of other peoples kids? if you cant afford to look after your own kids then you shouldnt have had them in the first place. i would say there are more people freeloading on jobseekers than are activly job hunting.

I dont have much time for political parties but nothing can be as bad as the current labour government who have sold our country down the river so would welcome any change.

Is John your dad? lol sounds like it I hope your the cisc0 of old and if so what radio are you on now? I miss your shows they were great.


EDIT: People who cant work through being disabled deserve help but also they should be thoroughly examined every 6 months to see if they are still entitled. This is not aginst disabled or injured people but a way of getting the scrounging liars off benefits who give the ones who need it and deserve it a bad name.

[flyingbrick]

You're a man of often wise words jrh2002, but I do believe our unemployed should be supported.

I'm not labour either - not with this government anyhow. And he probably is my dad and I just don't know it.

And yes, that is I. Aha, I dont work for a radio anymore I'm afraid. I'm well past it!

[Hayd93]

O great now they get free internet what are we gonna give them next a free house ? O ye i forgot we all ready do :rolleyes:

[Jordan,]

EMA realy annoys me either every kid should get it or none simple just coz your parent/s have **** low paying job dosent mean you should get 30 quid a week

[Hayd93]

EMA realy annoys me either every kid should get it or none simple just coz your parent/s have **** low paying job dosent mean you should get 30 quid a week

Exacly what i am saying. I really dont see how you can earn under £30,000 a year witout your parents earning. My mum gets more than £30,000 never mind dad as well.