Soldato
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Anyone see this on Monday night? If not....
http://www.channel5.com/shows/on-benefits-proud/episodes/on-benefits-proud
Made my blood boil! Yes, I know this is a selected group of benefits claimants and not everyone is like that, yada yada but I do think the left wing media (i.e Guardian) and the likes of SpankenTexan over-estimate the genuine bad luck stories of the successful £30k a year worker who finds himself redundant and like to pretend those shown in the documentary above are just extremes and a tiny minority. The fact is where these people live there are whole communities of people who think like the people in the programme.
By personal favourite highlights were...
* The woman talking about Sky (paying for TV) in the same context as paying the heating the bill.
* The same woman saying she'd happily take a job if it would pay her £500 a week AFTER all other expenses had been paid.
* The same woman again having a go at her daughter for getting a job.
* The workless guy saying he was 'knackered' at quarter past 9 in the morning after doing nowt since he'd got up.
* The girl who lives entirely off the state claiming she was an 'independent woman'.
* The woman with 11 children who claimed she was entitled to society paying for her because she has 11 kids and there is 'no law saying how many kids you can have'.
*The bloke saying that footballers get £90k a week when they don't deserve it (who is then seen buying the Sky packages and football shirts that fund those wages)
The sad thing is just how uneducated these people are. You can hear it in everything they say and they seem to not be able to understand basic rationality or how an economy works.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/on-benefits-proud/episodes/on-benefits-proud
Made my blood boil! Yes, I know this is a selected group of benefits claimants and not everyone is like that, yada yada but I do think the left wing media (i.e Guardian) and the likes of SpankenTexan over-estimate the genuine bad luck stories of the successful £30k a year worker who finds himself redundant and like to pretend those shown in the documentary above are just extremes and a tiny minority. The fact is where these people live there are whole communities of people who think like the people in the programme.
By personal favourite highlights were...
* The woman talking about Sky (paying for TV) in the same context as paying the heating the bill.
* The same woman saying she'd happily take a job if it would pay her £500 a week AFTER all other expenses had been paid.
* The same woman again having a go at her daughter for getting a job.
* The workless guy saying he was 'knackered' at quarter past 9 in the morning after doing nowt since he'd got up.
* The girl who lives entirely off the state claiming she was an 'independent woman'.
* The woman with 11 children who claimed she was entitled to society paying for her because she has 11 kids and there is 'no law saying how many kids you can have'.
*The bloke saying that footballers get £90k a week when they don't deserve it (who is then seen buying the Sky packages and football shirts that fund those wages)
The sad thing is just how uneducated these people are. You can hear it in everything they say and they seem to not be able to understand basic rationality or how an economy works.
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