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“We could easily get a job but why would we want to work”
She said: “The only way we’d ever be better off is by both working. But then childcare would probably be one of our wages gone, and put us back in a more difficult position.
“We don’t feel ashamed for being on benefits. Neither of us have the slightest bit of guilt towards the taxpayers as both of our parents have been paying into the tax system for the last 30 years.
“So we are just getting back our parents’ huge contributions. My dad earns £65,000 a year so he’s paid more than his fair share of tax, so I don’t see what the problem is. The fault lies with the system, not us. There’s just no incentive to find work when we’ve got a better lifestyle than if we were to go out and work for 35-40 hours every week. Why would we give this up?”
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My parents also paid taxes. Welfare here I come.
steebo77 on January 27, 2013 at 10:34 PM
And your children will be living off the tax dollars you are paying in?
Oh. I see.
lorien1973 on January 27, 2013 at 10:35 PM
Our future. May the west be destroyed so it can be rebuilt.
nobar on January 27, 2013 at 10:36 PM
Well…they are being honest.
They also have a rather good point, which very clearly explains why entitlement programs ultimately fail. If someone is just going to hand you cash for breathing, far too many people will choose indolence. If you are going to get less cash if you work for a living, then the system is truly messed up. Raised without pride in themselves, their heritage, their country, what else would you expect?
sharrukin on January 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM
Geez.. And Evil Mitt Romney who likes killing babies in his free time had the audacity to mention that people are mooching off the system. I’m sorry.. you’re perfectly healthy, so get a f*ng job like everyone else has.
Illinidiva on January 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM
I thought this was an interview with Moochelle about herself and Barky until I got to the part about parents paying taxes.
viking01 on January 27, 2013 at 10:45 PM
The fault lies with the system mainly… and then us.
petefrt on January 27, 2013 at 10:45 PM
They rationalize their guilt away, but still, a completely rational decision.
Fenris on January 27, 2013 at 10:46 PM
Way to go, Sun…large photo of them and real names used so that they can be proud of themselves. If you’re going to do this the right way, you don’t use their names because it’s supposed to be something to be ashamed of.
James on January 27, 2013 at 10:47 PM
How about a sense of self worth?
Never mind, I live in the inner city. I see it.
cozmo on January 27, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Yes, the system incentivizes unwanted behavior. Or, more precisely, it incentivizes behavior unwanted by some, but wanted by others.
petefrt on January 27, 2013 at 10:52 PM
This is a program primarily for mollifying Muslims. That these white racist Britanistanians got involved is a case of unintended consequences. There is a 12 member family in Islamisbad waiting for a new home right now.
BL@KBIRD on January 27, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Free stuff. It is hard for me to believe the no sense of guilt. Work in it’s self is rewarding if you have any sense of self worth. There are no unworthy jobs. Just some better than others.
CW20 on January 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM
http://tinyurl.com/cgoabyb
Good Lt on January 27, 2013 at 11:12 PM
America in 20 years.
ButterflyDragon on January 27, 2013 at 11:14 PM
Short story. A while back, I was home visiting my fam in the ‘Stan (that’s London a/k/a Londonistan to the uninitiated). Reading the paper one morning, I came across a story that pizzed me off so much that it made me want to go get my “trusty, rusty scimitar” and do some serious damage…not just to the principals, but to the entire society, especially the pols and the apparatchiks in government.
Here you have a married couple. Late 30s. They have 14 kids. The government had given put them up in a 5 bedroom, £1.5 million council estate house, and given them a people carrier. About 3 or 4 months earlier, they had advised the council that the wife was expecting twins (keep in mind that this is Britain so we’re talking “free” health care for everyone. Break out the balloons, cigars and champagne!) and that they needed a larger house. So, the pencil-pushers down at the council office started pushing paper and pencils around for a couple of months and finally find a £2.5 million house with 7 bedrooms and moved the family.
At this point, you are probably saying, “Wow! That’s a great country! The US should be like the UK. Of course, we could probably do without the families with the 16 kids, but Britain is so modern and forward-thinking!”
Well, here’s the little problem: In the entire two years that the family had lived in the old, government-doesn’t-take-good-care-of-us, 5 bedroom, £1.5 million house, the government had NEVER once made a visit. After the family left, the council went on a walkthrough and found THOUSANDS of old pizza boxes, feces everywhere, ripped out toilets, sheetrock completely removed, every appliance removed, floors gone, the sky visible in places, dead animals, live rats, bats, etc.
When the council paid a visit to the family in their new 7 bedroom, £2.5 million house to begin an investigation and take statements, along with open investigations with child services, the parents did what all good teat-suckers do:
THEY WENT TO THE PRESS TO COMPLAIN!!!
And, you ask, “What is their complaint?”
Oh, my poor, naïve, little, friend!!! Tsk-Tsk-Tsk! Not “complaint”! “COMPLAINTS!”
You see:
1. The 5 bedroom, £1.5 million house was TOO SMALL for a family of 16.
2. The council only provided ONE PEOPLE CARRIER.
3. ONE PEOPLE CARRIER only allowed the parents to go to the doctor at the NHS for FREE once every YEAR because they needed ANOTHER vehicle so that they could both drive at the same time.
4. The WAITING PERIOD for the FREE HEALTHCARE was too long.
5. Having ONLY ONE PEOPLE CARRIER meant that they couldn’t go to the pharmacy enough to get their medications so they got DEPRESSED and they ATE and they GOT OBESE.
6. And, HAVING ONLY ONE PEOPLE CARRIER and ONLY BEING ABLE TO SEE THE DOCTOR because of the ONE PEOPLE CARRIER & the NHS WAITING PERIOD meant that they got even more depressed and more obese and had more sex and more children because they had no birth control.
7. It WAS NOT FAIR that some families (read: those with jobs) could SPEND MORE ON FOOD THAN they could.
8. It WAS NOT FAIR that some families (read: the Royals) had BIGGER HOUSES.
This is why Britain is bankrupt…financially, mentally, and morally. No one takes responsibility for anything.
Resist We Much on January 27, 2013 at 11:24 PM
The Moochers of Manchester, cousins of the Leeches of Lestershire.
profitsbeard on January 27, 2013 at 11:35 PM
Big deal.
We have millions here just like them and half of them are from Mexico.
NeoKong on January 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM
Where’s my Obamaphone?
Drained Brain on January 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM
Agree except for the last sentence. Zville Satiate from the same news story does. 20 years from now the moochers will still be moochers, but with a smoker’s wrinkly skin, and Miss Satiate will likely be even more successful. Possibly outside the UK.
Fenris on January 28, 2013 at 12:24 AM
After going to the Sun to read about this absurdity, and thinking these people are heroes for the Occupy Movement, I noticed another article in The Sun that highlights another absurdity:
Not only was this completely unjust, but note the bit about a knife attack epidemic. So full control failed to stop murders? Ya don’t say.
jediwebdude on January 28, 2013 at 1:12 AM
It is The UK Sun.
A paper owned by News Corp.
Rest assured, everyone in this story got paid.
CorporatePiggy on January 28, 2013 at 1:14 AM
40 ciggies a day and they have a baby. Where is Britain’s equivalent of Chilc Protective Services?
unclesmrgol on January 28, 2013 at 2:17 AM
You would think people would have learned this by now after all the attempts at socialism. It’s a failed ideology. The first governor of Mass had a similar situation on his hands.
dogsoldier on January 28, 2013 at 5:44 AM
You would think that they would have learned it from Roman times with the Bread and Circuses, or from failed socialist experiment after failed experiment. I guess it’s why gambling and lotteries are so popular…something for nothing has a primitive appeal.
sharrukin on January 28, 2013 at 6:20 AM
Resist We Much on January 27, 2013 at 11:24 PM
Curious what the nationality of this lovely couple is?
ctmom on January 28, 2013 at 7:24 AM
We’re not supposed to feed wild animals bcs it makes them dependent & unable to care for themselves.
It is so obvious this is also the same for another animal: ourselves.
If people looked at the animal world & transferred those objective observations to humans & reacted accordingly, we’d be a lot better off.
This experiment in civilization is becoming a real joke in some places.
Badger40 on January 28, 2013 at 7:39 AM
No, the fault lies with you and your complete lack of self-respect and civic virtue. The system is a mere enabler.
DrMagnolias on January 28, 2013 at 7:48 AM
I hope the American people take a different tack and just engage in welfare fraud like our Mexican betters here illegally.
That way we can have a productive bankrupt nation, but I watch HoneyBoo nation and know better….
the Republic has 12 years left tops as having a Bill of Rights that means anything.
Congrats we’ve settled on our reply to “a Republic if you can keep it!”
We can’t….Good job McCain et al, I expected a Communist raised red diaper baby half Kenyan to want to wreck our nation….you have to be loyal to the Constitution to really be a traitor to it and you qualify he doesn’t.
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Under Allah I’d bet.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 28, 2013 at 8:12 AM
Coming to a United States near you.
Crap…it’s already here. FORWARD!
Bishop on January 28, 2013 at 8:14 AM
Mostly us for allowing the system to be put in place. How many non-leftist sat out the last election? That’s the problem. The left has taken over the media and education system and the non-left let it happen and now we whine about America being lost.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 28, 2013 at 8:17 AM
Well the left won and the left wants no responsibility ever. That’s what leftism is all about. Everyone equal and nobodies fault but society so society must make amends. The problem is that society can’t handle 80% of the population being slugs and always comes up with the solution of trucking many of the undesirables off to labor camps or worse.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 28, 2013 at 8:24 AM
“We need to be more like Europe!” -Average Leftist
visions on January 28, 2013 at 8:44 AM
That, right there, in one word is the problem.
JetBoy on January 28, 2013 at 8:53 AM
What they are doing is both rational and immoral. That’s what the government dependency trap does to people. They know it’s wrong, but the government has made it more profitable for adults to remain children. So they must make these feeble attempts to morally justify their lifestyle to themselves along with us. Leftist policies crush souls and economies for the power and prestige of sociopaths. It’s evil and sad.
RadClown on January 28, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Basically non-existent, as far as I know.
Remember this is the country that spawned books like Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist, among DOZENS of others, and even after they received public attention it was an uphill battle into artillery fire before anything was done about the plight of so many English children.
MelonCollie on January 28, 2013 at 9:26 AM
Natives Brits (white).
Resist We Much on January 28, 2013 at 10:06 AM