Why work when I can get £42,000 in benefits a year AND drive a Mercedes?
From the Daily Mail:
The Davey family's £815-a-week state handouts pay for a four-bedroom home, top-of-the-range mod cons and two vehicles including a Mercedes people carrier.
Father-of-seven Peter gave up work because he could make more living on benefits.
Yet he and his wife Claire are still not happy with their lot.
With an eighth child on the way, they are demanding a bigger house, courtesy of the taxpayer.
More on the way: The Davey family at home
'It's really hard,' said Mrs Davey, 29, who is seven months pregnant. 'We can't afford holidays and I don't want my kids living on a council estate and struggling like I have.
'The price of living is going up but benefits are going down. My carer's allowance is only going up by 80p this year and petrol is so expensive now, I'm worried how we'll cope.
'We're still waiting for somewhere bigger.'
Mrs Davey has never had a full-time job while her 35-year-old husband gave up his post in administration nine years ago after realising they would be better off living off the state.
At their semi on the Isle of Anglesey, the family have a 42in flatscreen television in the living room with Sky TV at £50 a month, a Wii games console, three Nintendo DS machines and a computer - not to mention four mobile phones.
With their income of more than £42,000 a year, they run an 11-seater minibus and the seven-seat automatic Mercedes.
But according to the Daveys they have nothing to be thankful for.
'It doesn't bother me that taxpayers are paying for me to have a large family,' added Mrs Davey.
'We couldn't afford to care for our children without benefits, but as long as they have everything they need, I don't think I'm selfish.
'Most of the parents at our kids' school are on benefits.'
She added: 'I don't feel bad about being subsidised by people who are working. I'm just working with the system that's there.
'If the government wants to give me money, I'm happy to take it. We get what we're entitled to. I don't put in anything because I don't pay taxes, but if I could work I would.'
19 comments:
Pastorius,
Wow! Talk about an entitlement mentality!
Parasitical bastards like this should be dealt with by a new government.
BTW What's happened in the US for 50 years is about to happen in the UK tonight . . . much hoo hah and excitement. The leaders of the major political parties are going on TV together, think of Kennedy vs Nixon in the early 60's.
She is the poster child for forced sterilization!
I am thankful that I do not live in the UK where this is happening. Being a US citizen [living in Saudi Arabia] and paying the amount in taxes that we do so that the jugearedjackass can provide health insurance to everyone is more than enough for me to give myself migraines and ulcers! The UK today? What the United States is going to look like in the short term if things continue status quo. Scary though. Very scary.
Mrs Davey has never had a full-time job while her 35-year-old husband gave up his post in administration nine years ago after realising they would be better off living off the state.
When a substantial population of any country comes to that realization, that country is finished.
AOW,
Sadly, I know quite a few people here in the US who have "come to that realization".
Sabra,
What are you doing in Saudi Arabia? Do you like it?
If I could understand british comedy, I'd be on my way.
What's the point of working? I can roll a doobie and forget it all in a world of all sorts of what amounts to masturbation then die. IS there any wonder that civilizations DIE? Or that brutish religions where you have no free will succeed among humans swimming in this?
Sabra ..you have that pen name? And you are a US citizen in KSA?
ROTFLMAO
GOOD LUCK!
Memo to the Daveys: This is NOT what is meant by the term "Going Galt". You have to be a productive person -- no, not in that sense, Mrs. Davey -- for that course of action to have any meaning.
This is also why the notion that we can out-breed the problem of encroaching Islam is absurd. Any chance this lot would care who was handing out the dole?
Sabra
What's it like living in Saudi Arabia?
Sabra,
You want to contribute here at IBA?
Hey, Muslims in the UK brag about having 20 children... how much entitlements from the UK government are these kind of Muslims receiving?
They're receiving a lot, and we've posted on that. But frankly, I'm even more disgusted by this. Why? Because these people are products of the productivity and creativity of Western Civ. and they have learned NOTHING from it.
They are fucking pigs in human form.
Pastorius,
If I lived in Saudi Arabia and wanted to contribute to the IBA, I'd move out of the country and get as far away from that place as possible first. I'd be too afraid of what they'd do to me if they caught me writing anything on this blog.
Fools think they can live like that abusing others with impunity?
Another manifestation of the West's rejection of it's own spiritual foundations in this case.
In the Mohammedan cases we have a manifestation of evil spirituality.
The Mohammedans are actively pursuing their spiritual beliefs.
you guys are shooting the messenger so to speak.
im not defending this family, just pointing out that england has created a welfare entitlement system that is older than this family.
they are exploiting the system as it is constituted.
they are not to blame, they are the symptom, the end result will be colapse of the system.
they are a visual reminder that when you sprinkle gobs of money on people like this and tax until they bleed the remainder still trying to play by the old rules of industriousness and hard work, you will get less and less oportunity to succeed in life on your own and more and more who are crafty enough to say why bother the system is gamed im joining the system.
forced sterilizing her doesnt address the fact that the system is rewarding her for being a broodmare.
complaining about them doesnt adress how far england has gone in putting people in the wagon and making the remaining "fools willing to work" pull the wagon.
I got annoyed by them at first too, untill I settled down and realized they are not the real abusers here,
its the nanny state government enslaving them and any one else willing to be voluntarily enslaved.
and the people left still working hard and being taxed to death are just as enslaved.
in fact the producers are even more the slaves to the system than these fabricated "poor people"
because the people still working hard and being taxed are expected to work hard and have thier earnings confiscated and givin to someone else.
if I make you work then take the fruits of your labor thats slavery.
No they are indeed abusers and deserve every bit of crap thrown at them. The Nanny state has emerged because of people like them and their allies who exculpate them for gain.
"No they are indeed abusers"
I dont recall saying they werent abusing the system.
only that they are a symptom not the actual disease.
as such, you can treat the symptom but the disease will remain.
treat the disease and the symptom will disapear of its own accord.
Pastorius - We are here because after 9/11 the airline DH worked for filed bankruptcy [9/13!]. Midway Airlines was already in trouble. 9/11 was the straw that broke the camel's back. DH is a pilot for an oil company. Do I like it here? I like my lifestyle. And, I like the fact that we have been able to make and save quite a bit of money. That is all I like about Saudi, though.
Epaminondas - When I chose Sabra as a pen name I did so because of its meaning. Desert thorn. Yes, I am an American - white, blonde. Ditto for DH. We are here only short term - to make enough money to retire. Maybe. Then back to the States - home.
Pastorius - Thank you for the offer and I would love to accept it, but I cannot, at this time. Damien is right on the money. It would not be a good thing for me to get caught writing, here. That would just spell trouble. I have enough Saudi officials stopping by my blog to make sure I don't say anything that isn't "nice." However, when we do finally leave here, and it could be soon, you can bet I will be speaking out about what it is really like living in SA.
Sabra,
I understand.
Well, when you finally do decided it's time to speak out, IBA might be the place to do it.
Consider this:
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2010/04/woot.html
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