The Tax on tobacco and alcohol comes to more than the health budget, and if you put all the unemployed in the armed forces then you have to up the defence budget so you have to pay more Tax's (if you pay them just the same as there benefit you still have to pay for training and equipment).

As for taking up all opportunities some people are not able to do so for many reasons such as low IQ est.

As for work for benefit it is much simpler to run if you put them all in camps, and so they can not sneak off and get out of doing work, put them in a uniform (striped cloths say) dose this sound familiar.

I live on benefit I get just £106 per week I am a single parent with a young daughter. My ex-wife & sister in law are mentally ill with agoraphobia, claustrophobia, panic attacks, anxiety, and clinical depression, (it run in there family and I did not know at the time) and I am there sole carer for them. I start my day at 7.30 in the morning get my daughter up and ready for school take her to school for 8.30. Go get my ex-wife & sister in law up and do there breakfast's (they live separately from each other and me) make shore that they take there medication, then take them to there groups or appointments sort out any problems (and there are many) do the washing help them do there house work, make dinner for them. Then go and fetch my daughter bring her home and take ex-wife & sister in law home do tea for my daughter make my dinner do the washing-up do my house work, put my daughter to bed then I have to do all the paper work for a club I run, (that has made about £20,000 for the Cornish air ambulance) then check my e-mail's and what replies need to be dun. Have a look at the Mudcat for about 1/2 an hour then go to bed about 4am and get up 3-4 hour later. And start again.

Saturday's I start at 9am. My daughter has rest bite care, and I have my ex-wife & sister in law for the day.

Sunday starts at 11am breakfast then get the dinner on go and get my ex-wife & sister law for dinner then take them back spend the rest of the day with my daughter.

No holidays.

I don't know how much it will cost the state if I did not do all this and got a job but I bet it's alot more than I get.

It's a pity I do not work, I can use the rest.

And if you had to have a license to have kids the may I mention with only one hand from berth you will probably not get one. You cannot in a free country tell people whether or not to have children. Learn your history. If you do not learn from history's mistakes you are destine to repeat them.

All the best ferret.

PS it 05.00hr here now