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Thread #149512   Message #3478998
Posted By: theleveller
13-Feb-13 - 07:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Compulsory Unpaid Work Found Unlawful
Subject: RE: BS: Compulsory Unpaid Work Found Unlawful
Yes, Eliza, I come from a family of farm labourers and fishermen. But my grandfather, after leaving school at 12, worked to self-educate himself and got a job as a railway clerk. But you expect me, at the age of 64, to go out and do hard manual labour for £7 an hour, or my son, after 3 years' hard work to get a good degree and amass debts of over £20K, to do the same? Or are you just stereotyping the 'average' benefit claimant as a lazy waster? Benefits are not a privilege, as this government would have us believe, they are a right, just as much as free healthcare or the old-age pension. If you use the NHS or have a pension, why do you try to deny others their rights?