How is the welfare system in your country?

[Landerious]

damn leeches

[Lillaahiya]

Ouch, right in the Somalinimo. Most other people ask each other "How is the employment rate in your country or is it easy getting a job now-a-days where you live or how is the cost of living in your country" but leave it to Somalis to ask "How is the welfare system in your country." SMH

Having a strong welfare system (which isn't limited to social assistance but includes health care, education, progressive taxation, etc) is linked with quality of life, which is why Scandinavian countries make the top 10 list of best countries to live in each year. Nothing wrong w/ the question being asked imo.

[Tanker]

Ouch, right in the Somalinimo. Most other people ask each other "How is the employment rate in your country or is it easy getting a job now-a-days where you live or how is the cost of living in your country" but leave it to Somalis to ask "How is the welfare system in your country." SMH

Having a strong welfare system (which isn't limited to social assistance but includes health care, education, progressive taxation, etc) is linked with quality of life, which is why Scandinavian countries make the top 10 list of best countries to live in each year. Nothing wrong w/ the question being asked imo.

Thats what I meant having acess to free education and health care and means being an advanced country and high quality of life but then again he is a dump troll.

[AgentOfChaos]

Ouch, right in the Somalinimo. Most other people ask each other "How is the employment rate in your country or is it easy getting a job now-a-days where you live or how is the cost of living in your country" but leave it to Somalis to ask "How is the welfare system in your country." SMH

Having a strong welfare system (which isn't limited to social assistance but includes health care, education, progressive taxation, etc) is linked with quality of life, which is why Scandinavian countries make the top 10 list of best countries to live in each year. Nothing wrong w/ the question being asked imo.

Or you can just find a good job that has good health care, and pays enough money for you to pay your own tuition fees in college. Nothing wrong with making honest living, and standing on your own two feet.

[Jaidi]

Ouch, right in the Somalinimo. Most other people ask each other "How is the employment rate in your country or is it easy getting a job now-a-days where you live or how is the cost of living in your country" but leave it to Somalis to ask "How is the welfare system in your country." SMH

Having a strong welfare system (which isn't limited to social assistance but includes health care, education, progressive taxation, etc) is linked with quality of life, which is why Scandinavian countries make the top 10 list of best countries to live in each year. Nothing wrong w/ the question being asked imo.

Or you can just find a good job that has good health care, and pays enough money for you to pay your own tuition fees in college. Nothing wrong with making honest living, and standing on your own two feet.

Or you could have a free education and free health care that could help lead you towards a good job and comfortable quality of life

[Jaidi]

Welfare should be for the needy and not those who can work. I hate benefits with a passion, the UK would be a thriving country if it wasnt for benefits. Its not just the immigrants, you will see healthy, young Brits having kids and staying at home drinking themselves stupid with cheap alcohol. Its a disgrace and not because I'm right wing, far from it. I'm thinking about these poor young people who would have something to be proud of a career, education, open minds, world travel even if they just stopped the welfare lifestyle which is dead end and brings so many social problems and ignorance along with it. If the government wanted Brits to learn more and have a population to be even prouder of, they would stop benefits altogether for able people. Old people are vulnerable as are the sick so I would leave it just for them.

@ this crock

Cut benefits and the UK will still have a depressed economy and no manufacturing sector with new employment heavily geared towards the service sector.

In fact the general trend throughout the West has been to cut back on the welfare state while favoring austerity. Yet zero examples where it has provided tangible success. Your anecdotal stories are cool but they aren't a solution for the economy

[grandpakhalif]

Ontario Works plus OSAP is a deadly combo, gotta niggaz pockets fat.

[gedo_gurl]

Jaidi, as clever as you think you are, you have not explained the connection between any of your points or shown any evidence to support them so I find very little to comment on in return. How is cutting benefits going to end the manufacturing in the UK? My main point was to end long term dependency on government hand outs by providing incentives to work which would positively impact on poorer neighbourhoods. All this will do is improve the standard of living (health, education etc) and reduce crime and anti social behaviour. I was not even talking about the economy but on the impact it would have on society and people who are vulnerable to poverty. Your reading skills are sub par.

[Jaidi]

Jaidi, as clever as you think you are, you have not explained the connection between any of your points or shown any evidence to support them so I find very little to comment on in return. How is cutting benefits going to end the manufacturing in the UK? My main point was to end long term dependency on government hand outs by providing incentives to work which would positively impact on poorer neighbourhoods. All this will do is improve the standard of living (health, education etc) and reduce crime and anti social behaviour. I was not even talking about the economy but on the impact it would have on society and people who are vulnerable to poverty. Your reading skills are sub par.

The irony of calling my reading skills sub-par while misreading my post. I didn't say cutting benefits will effect the manufacturing industry in the UK. I said that it's already a nonexistent industry as it stands. The point is cutting benefits won't do anything to address the major issues with the UK's economy. Cutting benefits isn't an incentive in itself.

You think there is no correlation between the incentive to work and the state of the economy?

[Thuganomics]

This has to be up there with one of the most the stupidest threads ever

[Titanium]

If the white man giveth, I shall taketh

- Somalictus, 4:17

[CushiticReflections]

Norway, Finland, and Sweden are doing very well in the areas of education, living standards, and other things. But is it true that Scandinavians (except the Finnish, apparently) are very shy and reserved?

[gedo_gurl]

Jaidi, as clever as you think you are, you have not explained the connection between any of your points or shown any evidence to support them so I find very little to comment on in return. How is cutting benefits going to end the manufacturing in the UK? My main point was to end long term dependency on government hand outs by providing incentives to work which would positively impact on poorer neighbourhoods. All this will do is improve the standard of living (health, education etc) and reduce crime and anti social behaviour. I was not even talking about the economy but on the impact it would have on society and people who are vulnerable to poverty. Your reading skills are sub par.

The irony of calling my reading skills sub-par while misreading my post. I didn't say cutting benefits will effect the manufacturing industry in the UK. I said that it's already a nonexistent industry as it stands. The point is cutting benefits won't do anything to address the major issues with the UK's economy. Cutting benefits isn't an incentive in itself.

You think there is no correlation between the incentive to work and the state of the economy?

When did I say there was no correlation? Your reading standard is below average, no offence intended. There is obviously a correlation and thats why I mentioned it, because it supports my argument for reducing benefits (for able young people), what part of your argument does it support?
Your thinking skills are also poor, why mention something unless its connected to your argument and the statement which I made? You never mentioned incentives to work either, thats something I said. I have no time for shallow back and forths which breed even more misunderstanding so I'm going to leave it here. You've obviously decided to read something I've written entirely out of context and have run with it. So long.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

There should put an end to job seekers allowance full stop; I would still continue with other benefits such as incapacity and child benefits depending on the results of a means test - there are too many who are abusing the system, somalis and others.