Quote Originally Posted by WBA1955 View Post
There are lot's of scroungers, but they aren't all at the bottom of society. Programmes like benefit street are designed to get the working class to turn against each other instead of looking at the real drain on the country. Sadly many of you are brainwashed into thinking this way. Some who have worked their way up to a good standard of living seem to be the first to put the boot into the less fortunate since they obviously feel they no longer belong to that class.
Snobs are made not born.
It's far easier to shop old Joe who signs on and does a bit on the side, (the b astard), than it is to point the finger at someone like say Sir Nigel, who fiddles millions and has lawyers and advisers to keep him out of the public eye.
Keep watching the TV and reading the Tory owned papers and believe you are something better.
It's nice to pretend isn't it?
Agree with a lot of that!

I loathe scroungers too . For many years when I was working shed loads of hours and we were struggling financially (as my wife had given up her job to care for our youngest) the pub up the road was always full of people who never worked but always had money to splash on booze or the latest mobile and even holidays abroad! Never got the argument trotted out that to investigate individual cases would be too expensive as surely it would only take a few regular prosecutions to deter others more and the money would be re-couped?.

The point though, is that although we probably all know of such people, they are the minority of benefit claimants. Yes, they certainly need dealing with (although the root problems will often be socio-economic and harder to rectify)but the Right are more than happy to stir up anger against these wasters because it deflects from the far bigger issue in the country which is the growing inequality in wealth distribution. Which is worse small time benefit fraud or big time tax avoidance? Equally wrong to me.