Victory Declared in War on Poverty!

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by classicman

nice. now I'm considered a huffy parasite.
Excellent. Mission accomplished

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by classicman

nice. now I'm considered a huffy parasite.
Excellent. Mission accomplished

Think of yourself as a Fluffy parasite. You'll feel much cuter.

[DanaC]

*sticks tongue out at Classic *

You're not the parasite dummy :p

[Sundae]

Listening to 5 Live this morning (a BBC radio station) there was a lady who's worked for over 20 years to get families back into work.

She's now been employed by David Cameron (our Prime Minister).
Right up my street, right?

T e c h n i c a l l y...... yes.
But given that I'm rabidly searching for another job for myself - NO.
I'm not mocking her, dismissing her, criticising her.
But her apparent target (set by Govt) is 220 thousand families.

I can't get a second job.
Okay, I have time limitations - I can only work outside of school times.
But surely this applies to other mothers too.

And I have a food hygiene certificate, an enhanced CRB (Criminal Records Bureau check) computer skills, supermarket, bar and restaurant experience and so on and so on.

I have no criticism for people trying to get the jobless into work. Anything is better than nothing. It's just - selfishly - I wish they'd start with me. I've applied to work at two supermarkets. No reply. At two places the children at school go for birthday parties - no reply. At countless pubs & restaurants. No reply.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here (yes I am) but I'd do a much better job than their current sulky-teenage hate-children staff. For the same wage. And I'd be bloody grateful for it too.

Driving me crazy.

[Griff]

My classroom aide's low paying job knocked her off medicare which she needed for her and her child's very necessary medications, thankfully she'll be full-time in the fall qualifying for the company plan... which will eat up much of her paycheck but is better than nuthin.

[Sundae]

Jobs are hard to find right now.
I'm not excusing people who have been on benefits since they left school - seems to me there must have been something, somewhere they could have done.

But right here & now, even relevant experience and being willing to work for peanuts isn't enough.

And any politician who doesn't know this needs a smack upside the chops.

I don't qualify for free prescriptions, but at least I only have to pay £14.80 every other month for my drugs (anti-depressants and GORD). And nothing for contraception or if I need to go to hospital - emergency or otherwise.

[DanaC]

Oh marvellous! Thanks for that Spexx


My favourite line in the entire show, which sums up how I sometimes feel when I end up in a political discussion with people on the right of the American spectrum:

"You really have no f**king clue what Socialism is, do you?"

I swear to God if I have one more person try to argue that Hitler's Third Reich was a failed experiment in socialism I will literally puke in their virtual face.

And even those of my friends on the conservative side of the fence over here (yes, there are one or two :P)would have a hard time reconciling Barack Obama with calls of socialism. Seriously bizarre the shit that gets labelled socialist.



[eta] dang :P can't watch the clips outside US. Still, it's a decent write up and I can always get the full ep via links *grins*