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AgentOfChaos wrote: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

Lillaahiya wrote:

AgentOfChaos wrote: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.

Lillaahiya wrote:

AgentOfChaos wrote: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.

AgentOfChaos wrote:

Lillaahiya wrote:

AgentOfChaos wrote: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.

gedo_gurl wrote: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.

gedo_gurl wrote: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 wrote:

gedo_gurl wrote: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?