Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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I just wonder of all these that spout disgust at the benefit scrounger, have they ever experienced a benefit scrounger's existence?
Have they ever existed with the knowledge everyone hates you because you are a scrounger, do they know what it is like to feel the disgust of so many in your own country, you know the place you were born, where your ancestors are buried ?
And have they ever been threatened or assaulted on the streets because of the fact you are a benefit scrounger ?
And then there is the food issue, do you know what kind of food benefits buys, yes the fat and sugar laden mechanically recovered unhealthy stuff as it is often the cheapest where most scroungers just go for what is most filling to stave off the hunger pangs or they train themselves to eat as little as possible and keep activity to a minimum, but their health suffers, but the will to survive forces desperate actions.
Then there is the job situation, well, my country has flushed it's industry down the toilet in pursuit of a service industry which has been mostly farmed out overseas leaving us with what exactly?
Then there is the population we have were no one considered what flushing our industry down the toilet actually means in the long term if we don't check our population.
Then there is the minimum wage which is not a living wage and minimum wage leads to the poverty trap, which is death and so many know it, so it is safer on ever dwindling benefits than go there.
And finally my situation where I want off the benefits and I want to be working and that through starting my own business as an artist metalsmith/plant mechanic/ jewellery maker, but how does one start a business without funding, for no one will lend to a benefit scrounger as they are not lending to already established small business.
And why I was off work for five years, because of a nervous breakdown after 19 years full employment and no days of sick in that time to include six years in the service of my country in the armed forces. But in the last five years I have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and Klinefelter's Syndrome. The depression was never adequately tackled and now they have a clue at last for I am being tested for Lupus.
But I want to be working, the benefits lifestyle is slow death.
< Message edited by Aneirin -- 12/3/2012 7:27:51 AM >
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