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

The people in your bolded text who refuse to work for years and decades on end are in such small number that I honestly don't give a sh*te.

You're trying to pump up a fanstasy land that this is a problem. The reality is the numbers are so small, that it's mostly in your head.

Talk to the priest, the rabbai or the wife.

The vast majority of people don't care about it. They get on with their lives and know that the price of petrol or interest rates have nothing to do with a fictional army of people on the dole and trampolines concocted by Thatcherite cranks.

"The size should be zero"

Good luck with that Margaret. Let us know when you achieve terminal velocity with your fantasy land Stalinist workschemes, and best of luck smoking out all the able bodied people who are on the jobseekers forever.

Look, speaking of productivity, I have work to do.

Yesterday I had the day off (don't know about you). Pull on the green jersey and do some work eh?

That isn't true. There is a problem in this country with generation after generation of cradle to grave Dole recipients. I can see it in my own town, most people around the country can. Take a look at any of the Council estates in any city in Ireland and you'll find that a huge proportion of the properties are occupied by people who've never worked a day in their lives, never have and never will because they're happy to live on a low income with a low rent. Pump out a few kids and the State will pay for them. Now with most new housing estates having to provide a percentage of the properties as Social Housing, the neighbours get to go to work at silly O'Clock to pay a mortgage of a couple of hundred thousand only to see the neighbours in the Council owned house sleeping soundly in their 60 quid a week forever home.

If the working stiff doesn't pay the mortgage the house gets repossessed but if the Council tenants don't pay then there's no real penalty for it. I'm not for a second condemning the majority of Council house/Social housing tenants, most are decent sorts who work to provide for them and their families, but this nonsense pretending that there's not a significant number of scroungers on the scratch needs to stop. If people can breed them they need to feed em themselves. I'm looking at several families in my town with between 6 and 8 kids each, neither parent works or ever has. Some on disability, **** it, if you can father a child you can get off your hole and work to provide for it. That crap needs to end.

It's not funny when you're looking at these people stood waiting for a taxi home with 2 or 3 full shopping trolleys while more and more people are changing to cheaper brands and watching what they spend. The fact that we've a problem and we do have a problem, with whole generations of families doing this needs to end. Grandparents, then their kids, then their kids and so on and so on are at this and it's a nice little earner. For most people rent or mortgage is their biggest monthly expense, when you remove that it's all gravy.

"Forever home" "Cradle to grave dole recipients" "huge proportion of people who have never worked a day in their lives"

That's a full bingo card right there.

Look, we've been dealing with the hard data here. What you are alleging isn't based in reality, and is for the most part in your head. We've raked through the data in the thread, what you are alleging is a gross exaggeration of reality.

75,000 long term unemployed. Don't even get me started on the bogus Disability benefit claimants. Open your eyes and see what's in front of your face.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/government-vows-to-get-75000-long-term-unemployed-people-back-to-work-1156138.html

thats 88.7 million wasted a week on longterm that the social don't wanna sort or 4.6 billion a year

crazy

muppet

I don't know why you're so upset about the country heading towards record low long term unemployment.

Heaven forbid the Q2 CSO results show an improvement.

As I advised another poster, perhaps talk to your priest / rabbi / Imam about your spiritual malady.

I had actually missed his Fisher Price calculator error.

But shur, when we're on dole thread rager, should we really split hairs about overstating a figure by a factor of 10!

to dialate her wizards sleeve you mean