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Jaywick -Christmas on Benefits
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Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
And most of it is SCRIPTED so DULLARDS like you can be entertained as any thing remotely INTELLIGANT is too much for your PEA brain to take in
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
You CAN'T even get on a 700 so who ARE you calling STUPID ?
pearl
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ooophs, I didn't mean to cause a row, just never heard of the place, don't watch TV much
Wrong-Direction
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No need to make an issue of it. I just said it was 'open door' and you could choose to pop round or not as you pleased.
alfredmizen
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I actually find it quite sad that some people are waiting to use this as "entertainment " on over Christmas, watching some of these poor sods miserable lives whilst snug in their own comfy houses with a surfeit of food and drink.
Stumpy Tim
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Hang on. I didn't wait for Christmas, and today I'm not drinking. So take that back
alfredmizen
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alfredmizen
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I'm struggling with the point you're trying to make.mate.?
That you might just (surely not?) have taken El Pres' post seriously?
alfredmizen
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I genuinely hadn't seen his post when I posted mine , there were other posters earlier in the thread who seemed overly keen to watch others.less fortunate than themselves , and it leaves a nasty taste for me.at this time of year.
alfredmizen
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I haven't taken El Pres seriously for a.long time !
yxee
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Surely an advert for giving out food stamps, rather than money? How on earth is a town like that ever expected to regenerate when the locals have this dependency?
Also this is why I oppose the minimum wage. It's a simple fact that businesses won't move in here because it's not viable employing a workforce of addicts and excons at £8/hr when you can get basically anyone else. Surely it's better for everyone that they get paid SOMETHING for a days work, rather than nothing at all? If you get 30p/hour in prison then why not say £2/hr in this place, which looks like a halfway house, I'm sure rents are not high. And don't take away their benifits when they start work, so they actually have an incentive to work. Not rocket science, just a little pragmatic.
Also this is why I oppose the minimum wage. It's a simple fact that businesses won't move in here because it's not viable employing a workforce of addicts and excons at £8/hr when you can get basically anyone else. Surely it's better for everyone that they get paid SOMETHING for a days work, rather than nothing at all? If you get 30p/hour in prison then why not say £2/hr in this place, which looks like a halfway house, I'm sure rents are not high. And don't take away their benifits when they start work, so they actually have an incentive to work. Not rocket science, just a little pragmatic.
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I have the same issue with sprouts.
Food stamps seem a good idea in theory, but in practice they get traded for real money which is then used to buy booze and smack.
There's a further problem that not all shops accept stamps, and those that do exploit the situation by charging higher prices as they have a captive market.
The problem of how to get people out of poverty (and to be fair to both Blair and Cameron they at least tried, but IMO failed) is a huge challenge, and needs a co-ordinated approach from central & local government, as well as agencies that know what they are dealing with.
Once self interested politicians get involved, it becomes a point scoring exercise combined with tokenism like so many other social issues today.