Tuesday, March 06, 2007
The War Against Scroungers
I was reading in The Guardian that the Government now plans to fight the unemployed and disabled - they are going to insist that they return to work or else.
The target groups are the single mothers and the disabled. The former are seen as scroungers who have been given licence to draw benefit until all their kids reach the age of sixteen. Whereas the disabled are seen by the Government as not really disabled at all - it's pandering to this:
(Imaginary quote)
The Sun Says
* that bloke with a white stick is not really blind at all, he's scrounging a free telly licence
* that lady in the wheelchair is only sponging a disabled parking permit
* this loony is only pretending he's mad so he can annoy people in the high street and claim millions in state benefits for his pleasure.
Yep, this is part of the press' rogues' gallery to which government policy is shaped.
The Guardian continues that the campaign will involve using the private sector to get people back to work. Private business will get these scrounging buggers back to work. Yet these private business that are paid taxpayers' for lousy services are the biggest spongers of them all.
The target groups are the single mothers and the disabled. The former are seen as scroungers who have been given licence to draw benefit until all their kids reach the age of sixteen. Whereas the disabled are seen by the Government as not really disabled at all - it's pandering to this:
(Imaginary quote)
The Sun Says
* that bloke with a white stick is not really blind at all, he's scrounging a free telly licence
* that lady in the wheelchair is only sponging a disabled parking permit
* this loony is only pretending he's mad so he can annoy people in the high street and claim millions in state benefits for his pleasure.
Yep, this is part of the press' rogues' gallery to which government policy is shaped.
The Guardian continues that the campaign will involve using the private sector to get people back to work. Private business will get these scrounging buggers back to work. Yet these private business that are paid taxpayers' for lousy services are the biggest spongers of them all.
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