I don't like Welfare bludgers

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[lurker172602]

Has this thread got any purpose?

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@azureline** wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

No one gets rich on welfare.

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No one? I beg to differ, but then we've been through this before.

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   You can beg............ if you are on government payments you would need to.

   The amount someone gets on the dole would not be enough to just feed our family.... how do they survive?

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I don't know any, so can't say I don't like them................

I guess the criminal ones can get rich but they usually get caught, don't they? the ones who use several names to collect or work and collect?

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   If you claimed the dole under 3 different names....... you would total $41 000 a year......4 names $51 000 a year.

  Hardly enough to buy a private island......lol...... no one gets rich off welfare.......... That's a lot a fake id's just to equal minimum wage.

[cherry*135]

Looks like a dislikers thread against a very small number of Australians on benefits. No one approves of anyone who is ineligible for any Govt benefits they may receive. Goes without saying

The majority are ELIGIBlLE.

LNP propaganda at its worst.

[lionrose.7]

Nero is just trying to tell us he does not like any one 🙂

[icyfroth]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

No one gets rich on welfare.

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No one? I beg to differ, but then we've been through this before.

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   You can beg............ if you are on government payments you would need to.

   The amount someone gets on the dole would not be enough to just feed our family.... how do they survive?

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Welfare was never meant to be a living. It was meant to be an assistance.

[boris1gary]

again with the promotion of violence on the bottom of the pic there really is no place in Australia for that sort of tea party nonsense.

Here is 2 of the biggest welfare bludgers in Australia today

[icyfroth]

A leading campaigner against welfare cuts who claimed to be too sick to work has taken a £75,000-a-year job with the firm used by the Government to reform disability benefits.

Sue Marsh, a darling of the Left who has railed against Iain Duncan Smith’s reforms for the last five years, has been recruited by Maximus, the US firm that has taken over a controversial ‘fitness for work’ test for benefit claimants.

Her volte face has infuriated supporters, who have branded her a ‘Judas’ and a ‘sell-out’.

Mrs Marsh said she had undergone an ‘enormous – almost cosmic – mindset shift’ that had led her to accept a job as the company’s ‘head of customer experience’.

She had previously claimed that in Maximus, the Department for Work and Pensions had sought out the ‘worst provider they could find’ to assess claimants of disability benefits.

Mr Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, welcomed Mrs Marsh’s decision. He said: ‘I would be the first person to congratulate anyone who gets a job. I’m sure there will be some whose negative attitudes to our reforms mean they will criticise her move. They should be ignored.’

Mrs Marsh ran a blog called the ‘Diary of a Benefits Scrounger’, detailing her difficulties in trying to be declared unfit for work due to Crohn’s disease.

She was eventually placed into the ‘support group’ for employment and support allowance, the main sickness benefit, which is for people judged unable to work or even attend interviews.She was an architect of the Spartacus campaign, which accused the Government of cruelty and incompetence in its efforts to cut the welfare bill.

Mrs Marsh, who was championed on Twitter by supporters including Lord Prescott, Alastair Campbell, Stephen Fry and Billy Bragg, also appeared at the Labour conference in 2013 and wrote regularly for the Guardian.

Late last year, Maximus was awarded a three-and-a-half year contract to take over delivery of the ‘work capability assessment’ – the test of claimants’ ability to work – from the much-criticised Atos Healthcare.

Announcing her new job, she admitted she had ‘agonised’ about how to tell her supporters of her decision and said she was motivated only by a desire to improve the system.

‘Those who doubt my intentions and with different goals to mine will almost certainly be critical and, in a sense, I understand that response. If I didn’t know me I might be sceptical too,’ she said.

She said Maximus had given her ‘fairly free rein’ to bring about ‘improvements to the service from a customer perspective’. She added: ‘Of course there are considerable benefits to both myself and Maximus in this development. I will be giving the same 300 per cent passion and commitment to them that I have been giving to campaigning.’

Mrs Marsh’s former supporters lined up to condemn her.

Writing on her website, one said: ‘I am so sorry to say this but I feel betrayed so much I can only now call you Judas.’

Another, Peter Farrington, said: ‘I have to add my name to the list sickened by this decision. So sickened I don’t even want to try to explain why I find this a betrayal of the trust so many of us placed in you in recent years, Sue.’

Tony Cyphus branded Mrs Marsh a ‘sell-out’, adding: ‘What happened to “I’m in so much pain I can’t work”? I can’t wait to see how much of a hypocrite you turn out to be. You have just marked yourself for a life of hate.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2917434/Judas-Left-s-rage-benefits-activist-joins-75k-m-Anti...

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"Mrs Marsh said she had undergone an ‘enormous – almost cosmic – mindset shift’ that had led her to accept a job as the company’s ‘head of customer experience’."

I wonder if that mindset shift was at the point when she saw the salary?

[evil_akuma_2002]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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   The amount someone gets on the dole would not be enough to just feed our family.... how do they survive?

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Welfare was never meant to be a living. It was meant to be an assistance.

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Sadly, they find a way. I've spent the best part of 30 years, working with chronically long-term unemployed and the disabled,, and there are so many blatant incidences of people deliberately sabotaging interviews, set up by their employment consultants, purposely angling to be fired, should they actually be accepted, or those on disability payments seeking out GP's who will support their ongoing injury/illness claims, it's scary!

Now don't get me wrong - I've also come across some fabulous people who would bend over backwards to get back into the workforce, and do pretty much whatever it took to do so, , but there is a contingent of sorry - bludgers, who just plain don't want to work, and firmly believe that the government should be supporting them.

More often than not, they'll blame everyone but themselves for their situation. True 'victim mentality'.