Do ye think social welfare SHOULD pay for holidays/good clothes/car

RiseToTheTop

Ireland is a first world country, food is abundant enough and hardly any of us wear rags.

Do you think our country is rich enough (by rich I mean by world standards, we are very high up on the global list) that everyone should be entitled for their social to pay for surplus expenses, like holidays, jewellery, cars? (when I say car I don't mean a beemer, but a 2nd hand car 4-5 years old for around 2.5k-3.5k)

HavingCrack

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

Ireland is a first world country, food is abundant enough and hardly any of us wear rags.

Do you think our country is rich enough (by rich I mean by world standards, we are very high up on the global list) that everyone should be entitled for their social to pay for surplus expenses, like holidays, jewellery, cars? (when I say car I don't mean a beemer, but a 2nd hand car 4-5 years old for around 2.5k-3.5k)

No, simply answer.

FatherLen

nope. those things are luxuries.

Dudess

No I don't think it should pay for unnecessary extravagances but if a person uses their benefits for these (unlikely as that is, granted) I can't stop them.

cruiser178

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

Ireland is a first world country, food is abundant enough and hardly any of us wear rags.

Do you think our country is rich enough (by rich I mean by world standards, we are very high up on the global list) that everyone should be entitled for their social to pay for surplus expenses, like holidays, jewellery, cars? (when I say car I don't mean a beemer, but a 2nd hand car 4-5 years old for around 2.5k-3.5k)

Huh you should see the state of my Nike's, they've just done it.

Cavehill Red

Sweet Christ on a stick. How many more dole-bashing threads can AH sustain before it implodes in a sticky mess of one-eyed self-righteous idiocy?

lividduck

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

Ireland is a first world country, food is abundant enough and hardly any of us wear rags.

Do you think our country is rich enough (by rich I mean by world standards, we are very high up on the global list) that everyone should be entitled for their social to pay for surplus expenses, like holidays, jewellery, cars? (when I say car I don't mean a beemer, but a 2nd hand car 4-5 years old for around 2.5k-3.5k)

Since they dont, its moot , unless of course you're trol...oops cant say that , can I?

Fromthetrees

I'd love to be the manager of a woman's football team, fuck it would be sweet. :cool:

eth0

dole should pay for coke and hookers, decking, jet ski's and a general celtic tiger lifestyle while everyone else pays 90% income tax and 10,000 a year in property tax

dvpower

Doesn't this thread already exist?

galwayrush

Some other Government maybe, but not ours...

lividduck

Wheres Freddie?
Freddieee,here Freddie, come on Freddie, here freddie fred fred...:D

ejmaztec

In before the free lock.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Sweet Christ on a stick. How many more dole-bashing threads can AH sustain before it implodes in a sticky mess of one-eyed self-righteous idiocy?

Is that a rhetorical question?

if so, then 8!

MickySticks

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Sweet Christ on a stick. How many more dole-bashing threads can AH sustain before it implodes in a sticky mess of one-eyed self-righteous idiocy?

Bout 3 fiddy

Traonach

No. They should be given only the basics: food, shelter, clothes and education. Everything thing else is a luxury.

ejmaztec

galwayrush wrote: »

Some other Government maybe, but not ours...

The Federal Government of Cloud-cuckoo Land is probably the only one.

hondasam

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

Ireland is a first world country, food is abundant enough and hardly any of us wear rags.

Do you think our country is rich enough (by rich I mean by world standards, we are very high up on the global list) that everyone should be entitled for their social to pay for surplus expenses, like holidays, jewellery, cars? (when I say car I don't mean a beemer, but a 2nd hand car 4-5 years old for around 2.5k-3.5k)

I have no problem with this but I would expect people who are working will get the same benefits from their employers.

KeithM89_old

Another dole thread. Great.