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[Kezzieboy]

You're all being completely distracted from the real issues here. The government and media want you to hate those on benefits so that you don't hate them. While a few people live on benefits and maybe some even do fairly well from it, there are businesses, and even individuals (ahem, Mr Bernie Ecclestone: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsp...dodge.html even a Tory paper reported this one!) who have evaded enough tax to pay all the benefits in this country. It's a joke, we get furious at the cost to the state of a few people living a modest life at the expense of the taxpayer while those earning the most pay the least.

We're angry because we work our arses off for little reward while those on benefits get the same standard of living for nothing. Do you not think that means that YOU should be getting a BETTER standard of living? Not just making theirs worse? We're playing into the hands of the old money that runs this country, distracted by the plight of the poor and ignoring the disgusting actions of the mega-rich.

The poverty trap is alive and well, the majority are fine with a national minimum wage that isn't even a minimum wage. Fine with the Tories bringing in the disgusting 'workfare' schemes, forcing people to work in exploitative zero-hour contracts, to the benefit of their CEO chums who the the companies that profit from this. It's a joke.


/soapbox