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Originally Posted by SV650rules
When you have had generations of same family all dependent on dole they get to become experts on all the different benefits available, and all the scams, make a damn good living and are harder to dislodge than Japanese Knotweed or Himalayan Balsam. It costs money to oversee and control systems to make sure these cunning people work, and sometimes governments just think it is cheaper to pay benefits.
My brother found out the hard way when he was out of work that the more you have put in the harder it is to get something back - having been in work paying tax and NI since he was 15 and unemployed (although very skilled) at 62 he went to DHSS and was told that because he had 'assets' (ie his house that he had worked hard to buy) they could not really do anything for him except maybe job seekers allowance, and to add insult to injury he still had to fork out for council tax and kept up his NI in the hope his pension would be OK.
Getting lazy Brits back to work is a very big mountain to climb, and in a democracy there is only so much persuasion you can use - because if you are not careful these people will just vote Labour and the economy gets trashed for another 5+ years.
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It's a good job the average Muslim immigrant is a net contributor to the economy then? Someone has to pay for the lazy work shy Brit.