Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Not saying I’m any better, Sith. Off to Spain for a month tomorrow, carrying a load of cash because that’s what the Spanish owners, who we now know well, of our main destination in the south expect. Many of the Andalusians have scant respect for the law makers in Madrid and stick to a ‘back pocket’ economy when the opportunity arises.

This ‘mate’ of yours with the ‘thousands sitting around his house…’ . You don’t have his address do you?
The point of course is that much as people tend to denigrate those who "cheat" the benefit system or whatever, there is an equal amount of "cheating" or perhaps "getting by" practised by the more comfortably off and indeed those who are very wealthy. Yet its those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale who get the the most flak!

That infamous Cameron quote about the hard workers who may be upset by their neighbours lying in on a morning because they weren't working. Being brought up on a Council estate there were plenty of those and other scams being practised, Guinness labels as car tax stickers being one I recall. Funnily enough, it wasn't a life style I ever contemplated, nor did I ever feel envious or pissed off that others in my peer group who mucked around at school or led a "life on the dole". I wanted something better in life than what they had and was happy to work for it.