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| LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 17: Demonstrators hold signs as British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a speech on welfare at on February 17, 2011 at Toynbee Hall in London. The Welfare Reform Bill is set to replace the current benefits system with a single Universal Credit,and to help people in long-term unemployment into jobs. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
Anytime
welfare cuts are being discussed recently, it always seems to be the
pensioners and the disabled who are the main targets.
Bus
pass withdrawals, heating allowance reduced or banished are just two of
the cuts being directed at these people, most of whom have contributed
during their working lives to a welfare state that promised to look
after them in their old age or should they become unable to work through
ill health.
Nothing
is ever mentioned of the drug addicts, who also are issued with bus
passes AND ARE PAID EXTRA MONEY to keep dogs, most of which are of the
dangerous breed.
Millions
of pounds are sent to foreign aid to help the needy in other countries,
but the government seems intent on punishing the genuine needy in our
own country.
Why
should the people who have worked hard, paid taxes and insurance, be
the main targets when drug addicts who contribute nothing to society are
given handouts left right and centre with no questions asked, or ever
any
threat put on THEIR welfare benefits?
Should
the Government not be targeting the people whose predicaments are self
inflicted instead of making our poor pensioners and infirm even poorer?
Most of our pensioners paid dear during the recession of the seventies so why should they suffer now?
If the government wants to put their house in order, use a bit of common sense and leave our pensioners and disabled alone.
