More Evidence That Benefits Are Far Too Generous?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/489061/Benefits-spent-on-funding-teenager-s-drug-habit
They should not have enough for bob hope!

[Mamyalynne]

So if her JSA had been less, she would have blagged more from Mother, Grandmother etc, run up even bigger debts and/or turned to crime - it is not the generosity of jsa that leads to drug addiction.

[DrFilth]

> all funded by her mum Marie's child benefits and her own Job Seeker's Allowance. <


notice which benefits r1 ?

[Mamyalynne]

//As well as asking my grandmother and great-grandmother for money to splash out on the drug//

[ToraToraTora]

irrelevant, benefits are supposed to stop you starving not feed a dope habit. She doesn't look starving to me, QED to much free dosh, simples!

[Mamyalynne]

That's an 'end of' is it - OK.

[boxtops]

It wouldn't be the first time that any sort of benefit has been used for drugs or alcohol - it's hardly a new story.

[SirOracle]

You certainly come across as a very caring and compassionate person Tora.

[scorpiojo]

:-)

[anneasquith]

at least she wasn't mugging ' old ladies' to feed her habit !!!

[boxtops]

..or stealing off her friends and relatives....

[pixie373]

I don't know how much JSA is a week, but I'd be very surprised if it allowed her all living expenses plus £10k a year on pot. Most of the money must have come from somewhere else?

[ToraToraTora]

so lets just recap shall we, you are all very happy to give free money to work shy scum to spend on drugs are you? Right oh!

I don't see how feeding junkies makes anyone compassionate oracle but then again I have never been able to understand liberal thinking.

"....it's hardly a new story. " - so that makes it fine does it? forgive me I don't speak socialist!

[sherrardk]

I can't see how it was totally funded by JDA and child benefit AND they had t pay rent, buy food and pay bills. There's something amiss with this story.

[Mamyalynne]

No, not at all - the responses are to your premise that this teenager's drug addiction is a direct correlation to benefits being too much.

[anneasquith]

scum. see that's when I leave you to carry on with your rant .

[DrFilth]

> work shy scum <

who said to me no person ever posts these words on answerbank now let me think

[Mamyalynne]

More than likely Sherr she was in debt up to her eyes with bailiffs knocking as well loan sharks, red letters from the utilities and the article stated she stopped eating.

Drug addicts and users exist in all walks of life not just the unemployed.

[Mamyalynne]

Agree with the others - I'm away too.

[ToraToraTora]

"No, not at all - the responses are to your premise that this teenager's drug addiction is a direct correlation to benefits being too much. " - the drugs were funded by benefits, she did not look starving therefore she had spare money after vitals like food etc, QED too much free money...

[ToraToraTora]

"Drug addicts and users exist in all walks of life not just the unemployed. " - indeed but it's only the unemployed that want me to pay for their steam tugs!