Quote Serge A. Storms="Serge A. Storms"Damo the point is this whilst you look for your dream job, tax payers like me are supporting your dream?'"
If you think my life is full of dreams and fairytales then I recommend you come and live with me for a week. I’ve wrote open letters to the job centre letting them know that I no longer bother looking for work these days because there’s more people than jobs meaning that I’m always the last in line when it comes to an interview. Despite this they still give me my job seekers allowance. At the end of the day the staff at the job centre know much better than you what the situation is like on the ’earning a living’ front.
Even if all the vacancies that are available were filled, they’d still be people unable to earn a living and that’s the real reason why welfare is they. Its not there so people like you can have a perverse say in how my life should go.
Fed up of paying taxes?
Then I recommend that you stop been lazy and start earning enough money that’ll buy you residence on a tax free haven like Cayman Islands.
The only thing that I’ve done wrong is merely exist and have good parents.
Quote Serge A. StormsYou stuck a job out at Asda for two weeks - do you think you deserve a medal? '"
I undertook a workfare placement at ASDA where you basically work for your benefits for ten weeks. Workfare is contracted out to a number of private companies who stand to receive millions in public money to bully the unemployed into accepting any job at rock bottom wages. This won’t create any new jobs – it will just force the unemployed to compete desperately with each other for the few jobs that are available. The effect of this on the labour market will be to push down wages and reduce job security even further. Workfare only benefits employers and nobody else. Why take on workers at minimum wage or higher when you can get them at £1.60 an hour? Those who lose their jobs due to the recession may one day find themselves forced to work their old job for benefit levels. This will only exacerbate the ‘race to the bottom’ in wages and conditions which is fast becoming the norm in the ‘modern economy’.
I worked for ASDA AT £1.60 an hour.
I’d love to see you make a constructive argument back..
Quote Serge A. StormsStop whinging get off your backside and take any job you can get - at least my taxes will go towards individuals who really need it i.e. the million who are unable to work not choose not to work.'"
Again I’m part of that million. Just because I might be more knowledgeable than your average long term job seeker it doesn’t mean that I can find work.
A different example to me is Vicky Harrison who was A "bright, bubbly and clever" girl who left school with three A-levels and 10 GCSEs. She killed herself after being rejected for more than 200 jobs. All this 21-year-old wanted was to become a television producer or a teacher.
These weren't crazy dreams - she was no X Factor contestant hoping for a quick route to fame and riches - and she'd worked hard, getting good GCSEs and A-levels.
After a wasted year doing media studies, Vicky decided that university wasn't for her, and she set off to find a job and earn some money.
And that's where it all went wrong. Despite sending out 200 application letters in two years, Vicky got nowhere. The girl who dreamed of a TV career was even turned down for a shelf-stacking job at Tesco.
If Vicky Harrison couldn’t get a job then what hope have I got?
Quote Serge A. StormsYour casual attitude stinks, the fact you can afford to attend Rhinos games suggests your benefits are significantly above subsistance!! you should be ashamed that ordinary tax payers - many of whom will not be able to afford to attend the game - are supporting freeloaders like you.'"
I might be a freeloader but I’m not greedy. I live within my means and I’m not in debt apart from a £20 a month bill I have to pay.
Going to a Rhinos match means I have to sacrifice other things. Going out on a Friday night means I have to sacrifice going to Rhino matches.
Now David have you ever took out a loan in your life and still struggling to pay it back?
It might even be a mortgage.
If its not you then you’ll know somebody that works and gets plenty of loans and is in debt trying to better themselves rather than live within they means.
There the greedy freeloaders who've ruined the economy - not me!
