What is a fair benefits system?

[jon1965]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

I accept it has softened in many quarters and i suspect that some incidents that involve my family and the Catholic Church have given me a even more negative view

[Sapphire]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

It doesn't matter if your Catholic, C of E or whatever, it all comes down to education and being taught that to keep popping out children that you cannot afford is plain wrong, and its even more wrong to expect others to pay to keep them. The only way to encourage this would be to give tax breaks to people for not having them or not having more than they can afford, plus we need to phase out the benefits as well, its been done in America and amazingly the birth rate has miraculously dropped.

[jon1965]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

The falling birth rate in the US may be true but even after its fall and our increase there is still a significantly lower birth rate in the UK.

[CleverClogs]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

We are both in the same boat in terms of the anti organised religion bit but being brought up a Catholic, their doctrine on the use of condoms has softened dare I say that.

Do they advocate the use of thinner latex? msl:

[CleverClogs]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

we need to phase out the benefits as well, its been done in America and amazingly the birth rate has miraculously dropped.

I seriously doubt that any politician would have enough courage to do that.

[Sapphire]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

The last one with any bottle had her funeral today, nope what we need is a new government.

[CleverClogs]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

The last one with any bottle had her funeral today

Whilst she gained notoriety as being the person who "stole" the 1/3 pint milk ration to children, she didn't dare to touch what was then called Family Allowance. She didn't even reverse Labour's extension of Family Allowance to the first child - previously, it was only payable if the mother had two or more children.

[jon1965]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

For taking the milk off us I will be eternally grateful. In the winter you needed an ice axe to get in, in the summer it was warm and foul. To this day I have never enjoyed milk as a drink

[Sapphire]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

God I can still taste that milk, thanks for the reminder.

[CleverClogs]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

God I can still taste that milk, thanks for the reminder.

Lovely, wasn't it?

Mind you, I knew the local farm whence our milk came.

[Sapphire]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

Really, I thought it came from Tesco msl:

[jon1965]

Re: What is a fair benefits system?

Nah it was real milk in real bottles. I hated it