Dole 'summer bonus' .. are they for real?

I will question it as you seem to fail to grasp what really is happening in benefit Ireland and acting like a complete and utter bollox on this thread.

My last response to 😉

Your the one replying here talking nonsense, maybe go get a hobby or something yourself instead of wasting your life on the internet?😘

Your the most miserable poster I've ever seen. I think your the one that needs help to be honest.

Keep replying, I find it funny when someone responds to me who has the IQ of a turnip.

Do you like getting in arguments with random people on the internet? Have a drink or go for a long walk and relax because your clearly wound up.

Maybe counselling would help you?

Do you believe that these billionaires are tax frauds or not paying their dues?

The evidence is actually the exact opposite. For families and idividuals in a poverty trap, they know exactly how to spend it. School outcomes for children improve, the quality of the food they consume improves, the money generally stays in the local economy. Their ability to access employment actually improves. There are many many longitudnal studies across cultures and economies that bear this out.

The fags and booze sentiment is Tory boy nonsense not borne out by data. The above statement you made is an absolutist and ideological one - you should probably recognise it as such.

I'm not even necessarily speaking in favour of the 'summer bonus' here, but cash to individuals and families absolutely helps their circumstances, and taking it away definitively harms both them and social cohesion (not that many posters give a hoot about that).

Mark, you're ideological predilictions are well known.

You made an absolutist and ideological statement that cash never helps. That's a nonsense, it's borne out by dozens of studies by serious people doing serious work to study these things and to implement policy.

I'm satisfied with my Tory boy nonsense (fags and booze) comment. It may sting, but it's true.

Too many people are happy with pretty little lies that serve the ideological psychodrama going on in their minds. This thread is evidence of that.

FWIW I never directed the Tory boy comment directly at you.

But, the booze and fags sentiment is definitively Tory Boy, and unfortunately it's on the same continuim of welfare to unemployed is a waste of "early risers" taxes. Everyone thinks they are the most productive clever boys, and everyone thinks they are losing out to someone else.

Actually, welfare measures such as cash are proven (longitudinal studies) to improve outcomes long term.

We've done this to death, but unfortunately there is a fallacy at play on this thread where people on the right on this matter like to pretend that the live register is frozen in time, and that the people accessing the dole this year are the same people that will need to access it next year or the year after that.

That's simply not true and we know it because the number of people who are long term unemployed and satisfied to stay there is vanishingly small.

We have to start dealing with reality and not ideological fever dreams.

Read the thread.