are you saying my mother was setting a bad example by not working ??? what was she going to do with a 3 yr old and a 9 yr old , let us at home while she worked???
are you also implying that me n my brother wont be successful because our mother didnt work??? my mother was in her 30s with two small chldren , it wasnt about setting a good example , it was about keeping us fed and a roof over our heads. and if social benifits where the way to do it so be it.
i know alot of people who have come from familys where there parents have worked and they also are on the dole. its got nothing to do with a benefits culture.
i have no idea who the ecb or the imf are, but i doubt they could be ant worse than the government we have now
my mother was a single mother and no way was she better off, school cost a fortune for two kids , uniforms cost an obsolute fortune and the back to school allowence doesnt cover uniforms, as for books and equipment , thats another couple of hundred if not more, then u have costs through out the year.
then heres feeding and clothings kids, as well as paying bills and keeping a house and herself
as for pensioners not all pensioners are getting second pensions. they worked hard all their lives its so wrong to take money off them .
you need to experience this to see it for your self. statistics are all well and good but in reality its sooo much differnet
no iv no way of gettin to an aldi , all my mates are out of work too.
in the 80s and previous recessions other countrys werent as badly affected , my grandfateher went to england for work , as did my parents in the 80s. there isnt much work in england , iv looked , true im not qualified to do anything .
i came home from australia 3 months ago , the job market over there is awash with young people from all over trying to get work !!!
of course not , but again why hurt the little people ??? the people who robbed our country blind shoild be the ones to pay , in the town i live there was a raid for one of the property developers who got a huge loan from the banks and then dissapeared, as if he was hiding in cork , hes skiiped the country somewhere he cant be extradited from.
imagine if the government where to cut social welfare, ther would be up roar , fair enuf cut it for single people like me who live at home , but no way can they take it off pensioners and single mothers , there living on the bread line as it is.
there is no quick fix solution to the mess were in!!!
best thing is to ignore the people trying to start a fight if nobody replies they might get the messege, i know its really hard to do , some of the tripe poste really gets my goat but this is what they want , pure attention seeking , like a child.
iv gotten henna d0ne , i had a reaction , had a red mark like a burn on me for ages!!!
iv got two tattoos , 1 on my foot the other on my back and i love them , used to be terrified of needles , one trip to a hypnotist and i was grand !!!!
the second was lovely , cant wait to meet him again
exchanges numbers wit a guy a while back , who wasnt looking for anything except an agoneyaunt. which was a pity as we connected so well over emails!!!
starrysky Forum Posts (163)
RE: Ireland's entitlement culture
again thats all staticts , in reality its different , yes some familys go on for generations on the dole , but some dont.
and i cant imagine our government making single parents live with their parents , we have enough of a nanny state as it is.
this is all so easy for you to say.
from your profile i see you dont have kids, maybe if you did you would see how exspensive and difficult it is to be a single parent of any gender.
i personally have the greatest respet for single parents and admire them. i also know that alot of single parents would love to work , but they cant.