>>Great timing poking fun at people on the dole when so many who want to work don't have jobs.
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>>>Working three days is going to be tough on all the folks who are on the dole <s>
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=19885>
>I thought it was a bit beneath Charles as well.
I plead guilty to all charges of being a crank old man, but it was my understanding that standards for getting on the dole in Britain were considerbly more relaxed than drawing unemployment or welfare benefits here. Obviously, you would know better than I and I am subject to reeducation, but I thought I had read that there was a lot of controversy there about able-bodied people feeling government payments were their god-given right and there were large pockets of "lay-abouts" who had no intention of working as long as the goverment would pay them.
Not true?
Again, apologies if I am totally misguided in this. i have nothing but sympathy for people who want to work and can't through no fault of their own.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
