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Squid Tempest
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Re: A cunning plan...
Jul 13, 2010, 14:38
pooley wrote:
Squid Tempest wrote:
pooley wrote:
But both the same in the eyes of the law. My neighbour stole from the government fir a fat screen tv and booze. Is that equally as bad, no where near, or ok becausecshe was signing on.?.


Well, when you think of all the MPs stealing from the public purse for things like fat screen TVs (I like that expression too), it kind of puts it in context. But of course your average tory MP would come down on the "scrounger" like a ton of bricks. It's that kind of hypocrisy that does my head in.


Oh I agree with that absolutely. The level of demonization of the less well off is appalling, and wrong. So is theft, and I do include benefit theft in that.

I find it odd that a lot of people on here say that the genuinely needy should be given more (whiich I agree with) but then also say it is ok to steal out if the pot that they are paid from. Could that be one of the reasons that theres less to go round?


I'm not saying that it is "OK to steal from the pot", or at least that wasn't what I meant. What I was trying to say is that if people on benefits are reduced to utter poverty by cuts, you can understand the desperation to put food on their plates that could lead to criminal activity.

In fact, when you put it like that I think it makes it clearer just how absurd it is to cut benefits. By doing so you increase crime. By increasing crime you increase the cost of policing, the cost to society etc, thus spending any money you saved by the cuts in the first place! Barmy!
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