Alan C. Posted January 28, 2013 Posted January 28, 2013 We get £17,680 a year in benefits, buy 40 cigs a day, have a laptop and a home with 47-inch TV.. why work? Danny Creamer, 21, and Gina Allan, 18, spend each day watching their 47in flatscreen TV and smoking 40 cigarettes between them in their comfy two-bedroom flat. It is all funded by the taxpayer, yet the couple say they deserve sympathy because they are “trapped”. They even claim they are entitled to their generous handouts because their hard-working parents have been paying tax for years. The couple, who have a four-month-old daughter Tullulah-Rose, say they can’t go out to work as they could not survive on less than their £1,473-a-month benefits. The pair left school with no qualifications, and say there is no point looking for jobs because they will never be able to earn as much as they get in handouts. . . . “So we are just getting back our parents’ huge contributions. My dad earns £65,000 a year so he’s paid more than his fair share of tax, so I don’t see what the problem is. The fault lies with the system, not us. There’s just no incentive to find work when we’ve got a better lifestyle than if we were to go out and work for 35-40 hours every week. Why would we give this up?” The welfare state cultivates an entitlement mentality and climate of dependency.
SimonF Posted January 28, 2013 Posted January 28, 2013 The welfare state cultivates an entitlement mentality and climate of dependency. Indeed, there needs to be a substantial gap in the value of working above welfare before people will be incentivised to work.Welfare is a trap.The cost of property is still far too high for low earners to break out of the cycle of welfare depencency or poverty.
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