Monday 12 March 2007

Benefit Claimants

The petition is entitled ensure stricter qualification criteria for people claiming benefits! and the explanatory notes say
"i feel that i, like the majority pay my dues to this country in terms of tax and insurance only to find the minority of this country being given free handouts. i feel that a lot of these people think "if this country is a soft touch then why should i work". this attitude to me is disgraceful and i would like to see greater checks and stricter criteria to those offered money, as it seems anyone with a good act of a limp will be signed off. i feel the truly genuine cases would not mind being quizzed or greater indepth checks conducted. we will see the response that this survey generates and hopefully save this countries nhs service and save millions if not billions in fraud. i have had enough of people coming into this country claiming millions in benefits, free housing, disability allowances, and what do we get...........nothing just higher taxes and 6 hour waiting times at hospitals."

I think the petitioner should go back to school and learn about how "I", when used as the first person nominative singular pronoun, is capitalised.

Going on from that, the petitioner - and all the other people posting similar petitions, of which there are many to which I may well come in due time - should do firstly some research to see how many people are claiming which benefits, and secondly, should talk to some people who are on benefits to find out just how few of them want to be or think it's a "soft touch".

I am sick far beyond the back teeth of idiots who have jumped on the bandwagon of benefit fraud without the least idea of what being on benefits is like or how many people are in the unpleasant position of needing to claim. Gaah!

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