Posts by veggiesosage

You know absolutely nothing about the benefits system, just what you want to believe.

Firstly, there hasn't been a benefit with the word 'Invalidity' in it for 18 years.

"The current invalidity system means that if you're not able to continue to do the work you used to do then you can claim benefits"

Utter nonsense. To get Employment Support Allowance you have to be assessed under a tick-box exercise run by a crooked IT company that gets 40% of the assessments wrong. Even if they get it technically right it has absolutely no relation to your ability to work and takes no account of what your normal job was or what you think you can do. It's simply a case of 'computer says no'.

"working couples have to make a decision about whether they can afford another child. That is not a decision that couples on benefits have to consider! "

You really are climbing straight to the top of BS mountain aren't you? You really think benefits are enough to bring a family up on? If so tell us all how much you'd get bringing another child into the world. And then, let's look at how much the 'squeezed middle' cost us for each of their kids in the rest of the welfare state i.e. health, education, youth services etc and I think you'll find that the family on benefits don't really cost that much more. The extra benefits expenditure of a child is only a small part of what it costs overall.

What you forget is that the welfare state is not just paid for by the majority of use but received from by the vast majority of us. The single biggest group of recipients by expenditure is pensioners, by a very long way. In total they cost around half the welfare budget, whether they've contributed anything worthwhile or not.

Be areful, you could walk out in front of a bus tomorrow and you'll very likely get old. The boot will be on the other foot then.

Re: Benefits keep going up.

I'd love to know how you know what 2012 expenditure on disability benefits is, especially seeing as the most recent figures released are from 2010/11.

And the figures for 'disability benefits' in 2010 was £26.2bn. That was in real terms. I suspect whover you got those figures from included all Income Support, most of which has nothing to do with disability and that is reducing all the time, being replaced by Employment Support Allowance.

One of the reasons benefit expenditure is because awareness increases so more people, who were entitled all along, put in a claim. You've also got inflationary increases which I very much doubt you took into account.

'Squeezed middle'? You don't know you're born. More pathetic middle class victim mentality from a Daily Mail reader.

Re: Stick his tweets up his butt.

You clearly know nothing.

So you're a doctor now eh? You can tell whether someone's disabled just by looking at them? Do you know anything about the entitlement conditions for benefits? No, of course you don't.

Here's a clue. There are no social security benefits that are excluded from people who like a flutter on the gee-gees. There, that's one more clue than you've ever had in your life before.

As for your disparaging comments on 'stress' I only hope that you have to experience mental health problems one day. If you do, please come back on here and tell me so I can visit and LAUGH MY EARS OFF AT YOU.

In the meantime, shut up pontificating about things you know absolutely nothing about, read up on what 'confirmation bias' means and stop give up on the pathetic 'poor little taxpaying me' victim status.

You really have no idea how lucky you are.

Re: Stick his tweets up his butt.

Really? And what do you know about the tests? And where do you get your £80bn from? That figure is nearer the amount spent in total on all non-pensioner benefits, not just the disabled. Oh and the amount of UK tax evasion...

And I'm glad to note your support for health and education i.e. the parts of the welfare state that you have used/see yourself using in the future. Hypocritical much?

Like the vast, vast majority of benefit claimants I worked for years, paid quite a lot of tax and when my work made me ill I claimed benefits and anybody who resents me for that can go die in a fire, along with your kids whose education I paid for, your granny whose care home fees I paid and your parents whose hospital care I helped finance.