Serving half the sentence
Posted by rapid_f1
Because in this country, crime pays.
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he thought he could outrun the law, but all he ran into was HARD TIME
danm Wrote:
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> Because in this country, crime pays.
It pretty much does actually. Someone even suggested to me that one reason why benefits are so high to the extent that many are actually better off on job-seekers allowance etc than actually working is that it keeps a fair proportion of the population out of crime, and that if it was taken away or drastically reduced many of them would turn to crime.
There is little or no basis of fact in this view... it's simply an opinion based on an observation.
Going slightly off topic I read an article a few days ago... taken with a pinch of salt due to it being in a tabloid, but it was this young couple who had reasonable job prospects thanks to NVQ / BTEC type of qualifications. But there were both on job seekers allowance and all the other benefits that go with it, to the tune of getting over £17'000 a year, not nessacarily because there weren't jobs available but because they didn't want to work. They freely admitted that they loved their lifestyle and have no intentions of looking for work, yet they had a nice house and the mod-cons you'd consider as luxuries, such as expensive tv/dvd, xbox, smart phones etc all paid for on benefits.
That's the kind of thing that really annoys me. You have people like me... who pays a tonne in tax before you even see your money, and then most of it goes on bills and further taxes. You have people struggling to support their families in low paid jobs that they hate, again their income taxed and billed before they even see it.
AND then you have useless people like the above who live of all that hard work by others for doing diddly squat. If I had my way.. these kind of people would be sweeping the streets, and collecting the bins to qualify for their benefits.
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> Because in this country, crime pays.
It pretty much does actually. Someone even suggested to me that one reason why benefits are so high to the extent that many are actually better off on job-seekers allowance etc than actually working is that it keeps a fair proportion of the population out of crime, and that if it was taken away or drastically reduced many of them would turn to crime.
There is little or no basis of fact in this view... it's simply an opinion based on an observation.
Going slightly off topic I read an article a few days ago... taken with a pinch of salt due to it being in a tabloid, but it was this young couple who had reasonable job prospects thanks to NVQ / BTEC type of qualifications. But there were both on job seekers allowance and all the other benefits that go with it, to the tune of getting over £17'000 a year, not nessacarily because there weren't jobs available but because they didn't want to work. They freely admitted that they loved their lifestyle and have no intentions of looking for work, yet they had a nice house and the mod-cons you'd consider as luxuries, such as expensive tv/dvd, xbox, smart phones etc all paid for on benefits.
That's the kind of thing that really annoys me. You have people like me... who pays a tonne in tax before you even see your money, and then most of it goes on bills and further taxes. You have people struggling to support their families in low paid jobs that they hate, again their income taxed and billed before they even see it.
AND then you have useless people like the above who live of all that hard work by others for doing diddly squat. If I had my way.. these kind of people would be sweeping the streets, and collecting the bins to qualify for their benefits.
DaveEllis Wrote:
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> so high to the extent that many are actually
> better off on job-seekers allowance
>
> I hate it when people say this. No, it isn't
> better. That's a tabloid BS made up for some shock
> story. Every so often you find some stupid bitch
> who has 52 kids, and yes they are better off. But
> for 99.9% of the people, they aren't better off at
> all. I've played all sides here - job seekers, 16
> hour a week part time and full time.
Plus the more hours you do work while on Jobseekers the less you're paid by the government.
Everyone knows that million-to-one chances happen 9 times out of 10; indeed, it's a common requirement in fairy tales. If the human didn't have to overcome huge odds, what would be the point? Terry Pratchett - The Science Of Discworld
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> so high to the extent that many are actually
> better off on job-seekers allowance
>
> I hate it when people say this. No, it isn't
> better. That's a tabloid BS made up for some shock
> story. Every so often you find some stupid bitch
> who has 52 kids, and yes they are better off. But
> for 99.9% of the people, they aren't better off at
> all. I've played all sides here - job seekers, 16
> hour a week part time and full time.
Plus the more hours you do work while on Jobseekers the less you're paid by the government.
Everyone knows that million-to-one chances happen 9 times out of 10; indeed, it's a common requirement in fairy tales. If the human didn't have to overcome huge odds, what would be the point? Terry Pratchett - The Science Of Discworld
GPGSL S5 Race driver for IED.
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