tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post8923409489580996672..comments2024-03-28T09:16:33.241+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Today's March and some advice for Mr CameronSue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-46262697617064791122021-01-02T07:26:32.310+00:002021-01-02T07:26:32.310+00:00Suggest good information in this message, click he...Suggest good information in this message, click here.<br /><a href="http://mundialdebeisbol2013.com" rel="nofollow"> แทงบอล ออนไลน์ </a><br /><a href="http://timesnorth.org" rel="nofollow"> แทงบอล ได้เงินจริง พนันออนไลน์ </a>edok69https://www.blogger.com/profile/08844773385471463764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-57321639972601628252011-03-28T13:43:10.996+01:002011-03-28T13:43:10.996+01:00Private sector worker
`My ideas for growth are th...Private sector worker<br /><br />`My ideas for growth are those of Keynes and Krugman and Stiglitz and Blanchflower`.<br /><br />I don't think that Keynes ever advocated running a structural deficit at the height of a boom, which is what the Labour Party were doing. <br /><br />As to growth you say 'If the UK started to invest and train and employ and build, do you not think people would be queueing up to lend us the money?'<br /><br />You are obviously not involved in private business, as I am, as your statement is incredibly naive. People are not queueing up to `lend us money', unless it's at an incredibly high rate considering current bank rates. They are however lining up in droves to lend money to Chinese, German and Indian businesses, who can offer either/or, cheap labour, high technological skills and low overheads. <br /><br />People who aren't in business are incredibly glib about growth, as if it happens organically. You still haven't made one suggestion about growth that a business could use. Can you think of one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-43679141523228312011-03-27T08:35:24.418+01:002011-03-27T08:35:24.418+01:00**The welfare system actually seemed to care. A he...**The welfare system actually seemed to care. A health visitor whose job was to HELP me, not try to take my son away if I showed any wavering doubt? Bonus!**<br /><br />I agree I thought that tehy cared when I became disabled and I was in a way bouyed up by that like 'I may br broken but they actually care that I am' Now - I feel that I am scum just because my body gave up on me and now the govt are giving up on me and treating me like this was a choice for my own future- When I had a future planned and it so was NOT this!<br /><br />I fear for my future now. I fear every time the phone rings that they will have started on me about ESA which as we know is so unfair its a joke. I fear that if I lose my DLA i wont be able to survive.<br /><br />If this govt actually gave a rats behind about the disabled people they would not be treating them like fakers when if you have got DLA in the first place you have seen doctors and specialists a plenty. This ATOS crap s just awful. And for ATOS to throw an obviously disabled person into a quagmire of stress and crap trying to find a job they are unable to do or they will remove your benefits for 3 bloody years meaning you lose your home, your family, your LIFE. And that is OK in the eyes of the govt?????<br /><br />3 years? I feel that my future is doomed to living on the streets and waiting for the inevitable end that wont take long as I dont have body fat to live off and I wont have money either.<br /><br />Unlike the bods in govt who are all lardy arsed people who sit around in westmister drinking and eating well and sitting on their benches making weird noises while others are speaking. They're alright so sod the rest of us, we are just nothings and we are expendable. They have to protect their own millions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-81350829447315839032011-03-27T07:59:44.302+01:002011-03-27T07:59:44.302+01:00I have swapped - I was in the US and homeless comp...I have swapped - I was in the US and homeless completely, lived in some areas most people in the US aren't even aware of. And get this - it also meant I was FREE of all this bollocks; the thing about living outside "society" is that you suddenly realise how little "society" makes sense.<br /><br />Then I came here and I was surprised that a country actually cared about those marginalised people (Well, except if you're a traveller, or foreign, or a darker shade of pale, but I digress...). The welfare system actually seemed to care. A health visitor whose job was to HELP me, not try to take my son away if I showed any wavering doubt? Bonus! <br /><br />And now, that's all under threat. For whatever mad reason the UK looks at the US way of doing things and thinks it's a brilliant idea. But I've been over there and I can heartily say that No, it Doesn't. <br /><br />The BNP wants to blame foreigners and disabled, the Daily Mail wants to blame everyone other than themselves, Labour blames Tories, Tories blame Labour and nothing gets done. I don't care who caused it. I don't care who started it. All I care about is who has the guts to FINISH it.Oya's Daughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01184649716540468970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-1362140427335941482011-03-27T00:37:23.644+00:002011-03-27T00:37:23.644+00:00Anonymous said...
"A country can be judged ...Anonymous said... <br /><br />"A country can be judged upon how it treats its weakest members"<br /><br />Absolutely, but I don't think we do too bad compared to the billions of hard working poor in India, China, Indonesia, Russia, Africa, South America, the Middle East even the USA, anyone wanna swap?<br /><br />Anytime if i could get a visa i could live reasonably in the third world make no mistake about it and i wouldn't need to keep looking of my shoulder either every time i step outside the front door i am kept virtually a prisoner don't forget and it's not a sob story either <br /><br />my body's the proof at the end of the day and yes my mp is shocked but his hands are tied as the DWP are all to powerful even for himAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-60035748334405109642011-03-27T00:03:03.213+00:002011-03-27T00:03:03.213+00:00The main aim of these cuts are focused on the sick...The main aim of these cuts are focused on the sick etc as that is where the debt is without the sick etc lets just say for the argument we don't exist then this country doesn't have a problem<br /><br />We are the problem and that's is the only problem period and by hook or by crook if this debt doesn't start to go down the conservatives will attack the next weakest link which are the over eighties with a euthanasia bill as they to cost the country a fortune <br /><br />All people with dementia will be targeted and if the debt still doesn't go down more extremist measures will come about that's for sure <br /><br />If anyone thinks otherwise then you have not lived the life i have <br /><br />One way they may achieve they aim is to try a new tactic which has just happened to me where you get a letter from the DWP saying you have been overpaid for the last few years and your benefits are to be reduced by £500 a month to make good the excess that you have had <br /><br />You can appeal which takes up to two years through the courts and that's what i am now trying to do with my mp I'll let you know the outcome as and whenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-1672002830933062902011-03-26T22:15:32.651+00:002011-03-26T22:15:32.651+00:00'Hard working' Mail reading families quite...'Hard working' Mail reading families quite frankly do begrudge every little penny of welfare spending, at least those who have never had to change an adult diaper themselves. <br /><br />I can't talk to these people, these passive-aggressive, two-faced I'm-all-right-Jacks. We just go around in circles again and again and as they know they've already lost the argument on welfare policy they resort to changing the subject, it's rampant all over the web. <br /><br />Sorry but we are not in this together and there is an 'us' and a 'them'. The Right-wing having made its bread on the scapegoat of 'the other' for decades should now get a taste of their medicine. They are now 'the other'.Mason Dixon, Autistichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799959037314750427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-31058641550763424512011-03-26T21:20:16.258+00:002011-03-26T21:20:16.258+00:00James - Going back to your charts, it shows Labour...James - Going back to your charts, it shows Labour ran lower deficits than the Tories, it only shot up after the credit crunch and Labour ran longer surpluses. <br /><br />As for the deficit going down last year - in which part of the year, do you know? Has it gone down since Gideon took over? How about our debt?Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-3053439079330646022011-03-26T21:11:04.376+00:002011-03-26T21:11:04.376+00:00I don't think any hard working family begrudge...I don't think any hard working family begrudges a penny to the truly needy and wishes they could do more, I agree the disabled were not well represented, but look at the march today it shouldn't be about us against 'The Government' us against 'capitalism' or the 'Tories' or the guy that has more money than me. The government is us, the taxpayer, the voter, capitalism is us the worker, I mean when did the unions stop representing people who actually have jobs? Most socialist workers I know are unemployed or unemployable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-89977484758673368322011-03-26T19:52:28.314+00:002011-03-26T19:52:28.314+00:00Anon, I don't think disabled people have been ...Anon, I don't think disabled people have been represented well at the protest or treated at all well by the wider anti-cuts movement. <br /><br />Fourth time I've put a shameless plug on Sue's blog, but I blogged my views on it: http://masondixonautistic.blogspot.com/Mason Dixon, Autistichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799959037314750427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-38148082627894765922011-03-26T19:50:50.735+00:002011-03-26T19:50:50.735+00:00He's right. There are countries that treat the...He's right. There are countries that treat the weakest like shit a lot, so Britain should be able to treat them like shit a little and still call ourselves civilised.Mason Dixon, Autistichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799959037314750427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-56617894099662893052011-03-26T19:45:18.137+00:002011-03-26T19:45:18.137+00:00I was looking for a B of B flag or somebody today ...I was looking for a B of B flag or somebody today - was so upset I didnt see or hear anything about DLA or anything like that :-( And I watched for hours - Guess i must have blinked at wrong momentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-69008325466312866932011-03-26T19:29:05.052+00:002011-03-26T19:29:05.052+00:00"A country can be judged upon how it treats i..."A country can be judged upon how it treats its weakest members"<br /><br />Absolutely, but I don't think we do too bad compared to the billions of hard working poor in India, China, Indonesia, Russia, Africa, South America, the Middle East even the USA, anyone wanna swap?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-67418790541216932682011-03-26T19:11:30.294+00:002011-03-26T19:11:30.294+00:00As always sue you make a good point. The conservat...As always sue you make a good point. The conservatives know that if they can get rid of all the sick etc then there job is done. We are the last hurdle for them to crush <br />Just supposed we didn't exist they would have no one left to attack now there's a thought i wonder who they would try go after.<br /><br />Personally i cant think of anyone but am sure that the conservatives would find someone or something that they didn't like and would try to get rid of it in whatever way they couldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-62639992762533956532011-03-26T19:00:56.935+00:002011-03-26T19:00:56.935+00:00And yes, I'm delighted to quote Ken in my argu...And yes, I'm delighted to quote Ken in my argument :<br /><br />http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/03/an-economics-lesson-for-the-growth-deniers/Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-71625791167288785842011-03-26T18:40:32.577+00:002011-03-26T18:40:32.577+00:00Now to engage with someone a little more sensible....Now to engage with someone a little more sensible. <br /><br />James - thanks for all the comments. I think that in some ways today WAS a smokescreen. You'r right to say that over the last 30 years or so, we haven't invested in the way we should have, wages have fallen behind, productivity has been artificially propped up, businesses have chased shareholders rather than excellence and "profit" has ruled all to the point where businesses have actually lost their edge. <br /><br />UKPLC has chased every bubble that came it's way with disastrous consequences. That'll be the outcome of relying way too heavily on a greedy speculative financial sector. <br /><br />We have to be much more long term. Business must invest and train workers and keep them in the country by paying them competitive wages. I advocate looking very closely at why Germany are doing so well. <br /><br />They might be part of the austerity brigade, but they have a sound foundation to their economy. We could learn much from their attitudes to employing the disabled, tax breaks for businesses that invest and train etc. . <br /><br />We have real skills in this country and far from joining the "stack it high and sell it cheap" theory of economics, we could focus on excellence through pharmaceuticals, biotechs, green industry, IT, and engineering. <br /><br />There is a way out of this, but cutting women's refuges and wheelchairs and care packages will not do one thing to address the underlying problems in our economy. I do agree though that they need addressingSue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-58549980583670669702011-03-26T18:30:33.679+00:002011-03-26T18:30:33.679+00:00So, to the Anonymous who questions my intelligence...So, to the Anonymous who questions my intelligence. <br /><br />"If these cuts are not carried out, we put ourselves into the hands of outside interests, ie bond markets"<br /><br />And what about Ireland and Portugal and Spain and Greece? THEY "carried out" austerity cuts and they ARE in the hands of the bond markets - 10.3% and 13.5 % for Portugal and Ireland I believe?? So that's that out then. <br /><br />"everything you write in your blog is anti private sector, corporations, bankers." Wow, have you read all of my blog then? Blimey, thank you. I used to be a trader and your comment is just silly. I WANT businesses to thrive, I WANT the private sector to do well, I just don't think ensuring no-one has any money to spend is the way to do it. <br /><br />Did it ever occur to you that people like me want to STOP the government from making awful mistakes? <br /><br />My ideas for growth are those of Keynes and Krugman and Stiglitz and Blanchflower. Not in bad company am I? Couple of Nobel prizes in there. As for having no idea how to achieve growth, I am not the chancellor who's seen growth projections fall from 3.5% to 2.6% to 2.2% to 1.5%. Whoops eh?<br /><br />I'll leave you with this thought. If the UK started to invest and train and employ and build, do you not think people would be queueing up to lend us the money? Do you not think other countries might worry a little that we might get ahead? Do you not think they might worry a little that they ought to do the same? If enough did, we just might pull ourselves out of this mess, but just like the 30s, they're all cutting at once - the race to the bottom will be brutal.Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-72169685267131515852011-03-26T15:50:56.333+00:002011-03-26T15:50:56.333+00:00I am NOT anti cuts (amazingly) I am all for FAIR C...I am NOT anti cuts (amazingly) I am all for FAIR CUTS and alot of these cuts are unfair.<br /><br />Attacking the didabled and and saying they are suddenly able to work when the specialists and all people connected to these people KNOW they cannot work due to whatever their malady is - Is cruel and heartless and inhumane. Sending people who are about to die out to work and stressing them in their last few months of life is inhumane. Telling people who are unable to hold down a job that they must go on JSA is inhumane - and the ridiculous ATOS know this but they are all about the money for them and sod everyone who passes by them - The weak are expendable eh.<br /><br />Some of the cuts DO have to be made - Privatising the NHS will only take us back in time and will only hurt the people - Remember alot of countries are jealous of our NHS.<br /><br />A country can be judged upon how it treats its weakest members - And this government have shown categorically that the weakest members are to be denied any help and to be villified and called liars and scroungers and scumbags.<br /><br />Yes - make cuts to places where cuts should be made, make cuts to the places where money is thrown away, like in parliament where they waste thousands on wallpaper to decorate an office they are rarely in! Make cuts to the rich - Cuts we can see! It is always the poor who hold the country up. It is always the rich who throw out the rules while they sit up on their pedestals looking down at us plebs.<br /><br />What if every poor person in every single job refused to go to work? The country would grind to a halt. Yes I know that wont happen but should it - Then the govt would have to stand up and bloody listen. It seems this govt have money to give to everyone else - to spend on bombing people and giving themselves big handouts and nice little presents for themselves. Seems that when they leave govt they still are set up for life, they have it out in place that they will be set for life. When we lose our jobs nobody gives us pay for the rest of our lives! No - We have to belittle ourselves and become a scrounger signing on.<br /><br />If this government want to be liked at all - They should relaise that the disabled do not ned millions wasted changing a working DLA system with very small fraud to a more than likely not working PIP which is just a drain for money and giving it to ATOS who will no doubt in their infinite wisdom - say that all the disabled people are suddenly cured which they wont be and then lives will be lost.<br /><br />Therte IS a way to make smaller cuts and bring in the robin hood tax. Get the unpaid tax paid - and look into the waste in the NHS like them paying ten times the price for every thing they buy. Look into the waste in the MPs lives like them paying tons to all different companies just for their telephones. They all ned to understand that THEY hold the reigns and if they refuse to buy at these extortionate rates then prices will lower and thus savings will be made. For a £1 titanium screw the NHS will pay £10+ - They need to refuse to pay these prices and then the companies would fold if they didnt stop ripping off the NHS!<br /><br />There are ALWAYS ways of reducing the outgoings especially when the MPSs are spending ridiculous amounts on ''our behalf'' mostly on themselves when they do not need these bonuses or payments for the rest of their lives after they leave office - That is not how the world works - They get voted out and they get 60k a year money for life? Thats a joke!<br /><br />This govt is a joke and if they TRULY wanted to cut the defecit they would look closer to home first!<br /><br />The disabled are just a weak target they have grabbed onto cos they know that they arent strong enough to rampage enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-40644721126143538152011-03-26T15:15:57.184+00:002011-03-26T15:15:57.184+00:00Private sector worker
Sue, you seem unable to gras...Private sector worker<br />Sue, you seem unable to grasp that if these cuts are not carried out, we put ourselves into the hands of outside interests - ie the bond markets - who will force far deeper cuts upon us. <br /><br />Your strategy is `I'd build, I'd grow, I'd employ', yet everything you write in your blog is anti private sector, corporations, bankers. You want to target these people to raise tax, and yet you want to raise money through `growth'. I suggest you really have no grasp of business, how to create growth, and what the private sector needs to encourage growth and employment. <br /><br />The working people in my factory do support the cuts. They are the people who are paying the taxes that keep the public sector going, and they are not happy with the overspending of Labour. This is basically a public sector demonstration.<br /><br />It's easy for people like you to say `get growth'. You have absolutely no idea how to go about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-77008609411937256192011-03-26T15:07:01.908+00:002011-03-26T15:07:01.908+00:00I fully support the above post the only people wor...I fully support the above post the only people worldwide who talk about cut's for others are aways wealthy always remember that and you wont go wrong<br /><br />The conservatives will only last another four years but they will cause a great deal of damage in the mean time primarily to the sick and disabledAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-53308989159237138122011-03-26T13:15:10.842+00:002011-03-26T13:15:10.842+00:00A big concern of the disabled is that many of them...A big concern of the disabled is that many of them face being taken off disability benefits not because they are fit and well but because so many are to be culled in the name of austerity.I am disabled having worked since leaving school some many years ago i am now suffering from conditions that cause me great pain and having to rely on morphine and my bed for 20 odd hours out of every day.Truly awful is how i would describe my life and to have my problems compounded by a work capability test that is not fit for purpose just adds to my anquish.A lot of people have no problems with being tested for their disability benefits but they need to be fair and be a true indicator of a persons capabilities instead of the current test which is obscene in its blatant assault on commonsense.To anyone not familiar with the Work Capability Assessment ESA i would strongly suggest you look at it ..you will then i am certain understand where the conflict arises,it,s nonsense a total farce.That is why i support the marchers and anything else that will make this Government review matters with compassion being at the centre of such action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-57900594295904873442011-03-26T13:01:17.296+00:002011-03-26T13:01:17.296+00:00from one Anonymous to another....
we would all do...from one Anonymous to another....<br /><br />we would all do well to remember that the 'net contributors' would not be able to function without the public sector workers<br />or can we assume that you don't use the Health Service, Public Transport, schools etc????<br /><br />or are you one of the merchant bankers that have got us into this fine mess? perhaps thats why you choose to be anonymous? :O)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-61012279440124454902011-03-26T12:36:04.430+00:002011-03-26T12:36:04.430+00:00Haha Anonymous - Selective quoting won't help ...Haha Anonymous - Selective quoting won't help you either.Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-39924065529723275312011-03-26T12:31:24.278+00:002011-03-26T12:31:24.278+00:00"I imagine they are an amorphous mass of publ..."I imagine they are an amorphous mass of public-sector-worker-leftie-benefit-scrounging-student-radical-militant-crusty-drains-on-society"<br /><br />Couldn't have put it better myself. I notice everyone on the march is in receipt of tax payers money rather than net contributors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-24683245063831610522011-03-26T11:09:49.276+00:002011-03-26T11:09:49.276+00:00James - Yes, it may be, just like it was in my par...James - Yes, it may be, just like it was in my parents' day when they marched during the civil rights movement in the US. And so what did they do? They marched, they got out there - they put themselves directly in the line of fire and said "no". Eventually, it worked. Things can change, but they certainly will NOT change if folks sit about and merely trade theories as opposed to actually trying to affect change in the first place.<br /><br />I am not a politician, a conspiracy theorist, a economics wiz, or even remotely privy to the budget. What I am is a mother, a disabled person, and I'm angry as hell. Just like the women who stormed the Bastille or chained themselves to the stairs of Parliament or got hanged or shot at in the early 60s in Georgia.<br /><br />So Armchair Activist I will be...and at least then I can carry my great-grandmother's family name and hold my head up whilst doing so.Oya's Daughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01184649716540468970noreply@blogger.com