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Cowlesy
01-03-2010, 09:54 AM
Screw work!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238837/Family-16-live-37-000-year-benefits-fresh-blow-welfare-system.html#ixzz0bH2ggmDc


A family of 16 has revealed they are better off staying at home and claiming benefits than getting a job.
Mother-of-fourteen Dawn Cain, who is expecting her 15th baby in April, and husband Sean are given £36,847 in tax-free benefits a year.
Mr Cain, 41, a former landscape gardener, has been out of work since 2003 when he took time off to help his wife care for their children.

But he soon realised his family was better off claiming benefits than if he worked.

'With the social giving us £700 a week, why should I work for anything less?' he told the News of the World.

'There's no point me even trying to look for a job. I've got a family of 15 to support.

I'm better off staying at home and helping Dawn with the kids.

'People could call us scroungers but what would they do in the same situation?'

Rent on the Cains's home in Wythenshawe, Manchester, is paid for them and they do not have to pay their £1,023-a-year council tax.

They get £7,176 in child benefit, £22,828 in child tax credits and free school dinners for eight of their children worth £1,920.

Mr Cain also receives £3,900 in Jobseeker's Allowance.

The total amount is £36,847 a year, equivalent to someone earning a gross salary of £51,500. Britain's average salary is £21,320.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238837/Family-16-live-37-000-year-benefits-fresh-blow-welfare-system.html#ixzz0bZ68tmPU

I think the F/X spot rate is right around 1.68 USD per GBP, so that's over $60,000/yr, free.

coyote_sprit
01-03-2010, 09:58 AM
There was another article some months ago about an Obese family of four collecting roughly the same amount. These people are pathetic.

Edit: found it (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5004431/Family-who-are-too-fat-to-work-say-22000-worth-of-benefits-is-not-enough.html).

Cowlesy
01-03-2010, 10:04 AM
There was another article some months ago about an Obese family of four collecting roughly the same amount. These people are pathetic.

Edit: found it (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5004431/Family-who-are-too-fat-to-work-say-22000-worth-of-benefits-is-not-enough.html).

The guy complains that it isn't enough and they deserve more! "It's not my fault! It's our genes!"

BillyDkid
01-03-2010, 10:21 AM
Screw work!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238837/Family-16-live-37-000-year-benefits-fresh-blow-welfare-system.html#ixzz0bH2ggmDc



I think the F/X spot rate is right around 1.68 USD per GBP, so that's over $60,000/yr, free.Reminds me of the the movie Idiocracy, with the most stupid and the most useless doing all the reproducing. These people most think they have really amazing genes since they are so determined to pass them on. What you reward you get more of.

ChaosControl
01-03-2010, 10:34 AM
The system is designed that way so I can see why it happens.
Our system gives you X money, but oh make just a little too much and BAM.

Instead, if we are to have such it needs to slowly phase out.

So if you get X monies, you decide oh I want some more so I'll work. Now you make X+20,000. They shouldn't necessarily reduce X by that 20,000, but maybe reduce it by 6,000. This will make it so the person may still feel like working.

CasualApathy
01-03-2010, 10:35 AM
It's the same here in Denmark. A lot of people who are being supported by the state would actually loose a considerable amount of money if they got a job. It's so damn depressing.

CasualApathy
01-03-2010, 10:37 AM
There was another article some months ago about an Obese family of four collecting roughly the same amount. These people are pathetic.

Edit: found it (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5004431/Family-who-are-too-fat-to-work-say-22000-worth-of-benefits-is-not-enough.html).

They might be pathetic, but you can't really blame them. It's just logic and human nature for most people to strive to get through life with as little hazzle as possible. It has ever been so and I don't think that will ever change. The real fault lies with the system that allows them to live off others.

ItsTime
01-03-2010, 10:40 AM
It is already here in the US. My sister in law gets around $900/month in rent assistance god knows how much in electric/heating/food/cash she gets a month. My guess is around 30k a year. Why would she work?

The good thing is she DOES NOT LIKE living like this and is back in school to try to better her life and her childrens lives.

fj45lvr
01-03-2010, 01:50 PM
It's definetly not "free"....just that they don't pay for it.


they are your typical lazy idiots squirting out that many mouths to feed when they don't have the will to earn what is necessary to support their actions



Screw work!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238837/Family-16-live-37-000-year-benefits-fresh-blow-welfare-system.html#ixzz0bH2ggmDc (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238837/Family-16-live-37-000-year-benefits-fresh-blow-welfare-system.html#ixzz0bH2ggmDc)



I think the F/X spot rate is right around 1.68 USD per GBP, so that's over $60,000/yr, free.

LibForestPaul
01-03-2010, 02:03 PM
Since they are both unemployed, and unable to care for their children, why hasn't the state(especially UK) taken their children away?

SelfTaught
01-03-2010, 02:11 PM
The ad on the bottom of the first page was for a free $250 grocery coupon. All you do is enter your zip code and get your free $250 card. Sweet. Just talking about getting free stuff.....GETS YOU FREE STUFF!!! Let's keep going.

constituent
01-03-2010, 02:19 PM
The ad on the bottom of the first page was for a free $250 grocery coupon. All you do is enter your zip code and get your free $250 card. Sweet. Just talking about getting free stuff.....GETS YOU FREE STUFF!!! Let's keep going.

Bookmarked. Let me know when the bill collector strikes.

SelfTaught
01-03-2010, 02:22 PM
Uh Oh.

Ann Coulter Free.

Backfired.

UK4Paul
01-03-2010, 02:58 PM
British folks, get yourself into the baby manufacturing business... it's state sponsored!

uggh.

Acala
01-03-2010, 03:03 PM
As I always say to my Dad when he starts ranting about illegal aliens using all the services: "If you don't want to give away free stuff, stop. But as long as you are giving stuff away for free, you can't blame people for taking it."

RideTheDirt
01-03-2010, 05:51 PM
They might be pathetic, but you can't really blame them. It's just logic and human nature for most people to strive to get through life with as little hazzle as possible. It has ever been so and I don't think that will ever change. The real fault lies with the system that allows them to live off others.
+1

ItsTime
01-03-2010, 06:52 PM
As I always say to my Dad when he starts ranting about illegal aliens using all the services: "If you don't want to give away free stuff, stop. But as long as you are giving stuff away for free, you can't blame people for taking it."

Yup f- personal responsibility and the ability to do what is right. :rolleyes:


"Its not my fault I am a meth-head some crack dealer gave it to me for free!"