My father worked as a stone mason,then a brickie since he was 15,leaving school with no formal qualifications,but got up every day for 6:30,and home by 4:30,every night he was at home and by the table with his family.
He's beaten cancer twice and when he was off work sick last year through injury he needed help from the state,and sadly it wasn't there.
We have been totally let down,which is a real shame,because we/he had absolutely nothing to hide,and just wanted some help which never came.
There are those that chose never to work a day in their life,and that is their choice,the benefit system is the only form of income they receive.
We must not forget that it's just another programme trying to get people to think,or indeed highlight the issues of mis-using benefits.
What these people are doing is not actually criminal. Channel 4 or 5 have a way of spinning the truth on these families and their choice of characters was irresponsible and selective.
We must also face the fact that while not everyone on benefits behave like this,and how many families are there in this country who have this many children, not many.
The focus seems to stem towards people who have made some choices most of us others wouldn't,that doesn't mean their wrong.
These families and a whole lot more are living in such poor conditions with the idea of this report concentrating on how much benefit the stereotype of people receive, but no one reports on how many families don't receive a single thing because they're waiting for the out come of their disability claim.
While focusing the attention of us,the viewer on these families the real people, with real needs who the welfare state was meant to help, isn't,and probably never will.
The waste in the system by all these so called reforms costs a lot more than people receive. People with Cancer will die before they receive benefit, now that's a scandal. [FONT=open_sans]
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