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Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by ashamedamerican
The only Royals receiving public money are the Queen and Prince Phillip. Everyone else has their own money and businesses or careers.
As a Yank, I don't expect you to have anything good to say about anything from outside the US mind you, least of all the British Monarchy, and I certainly didn't think you'd have anywhere near an accurate view of what it is the Royal's do.
EDIT: Anyway, this isn't the thread for discussing the Roayls. If you feel the need to bash them, start a thread of your own.
[edit on 2/12/08 by stumason]
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
By the way I'm an American, not a 'Yank' you can keep your derogatory slang to yourself, unless us Americans are now allowed to refer to anyone from the U.K. as a wanker.
No one in our house works
With redundancies rising and job vacancies shrinking, unemployment is back in the headlines. But for millions it never went away. As part of a series on Britain's jobless, one family explains how and why lack of work has touched their lives.
Elizabeth Malcolm, 43, has never had a job. She lives in a two-bedroom council flat in Glasgow with her three children, one grandchild, two cats and a hamster.
Neither of her two working-age children have a job.
The family is what the statistics gatherers call a "workless household" - one of three million in the country. In reality it's not quite so easy to put every jobless person into a neat little box. This is their story.
Elizabeth, known as "Biff" to family and friends, wishes now that she had got into work or college back in 1980, when she left school at 15.
They send for you every month to ask you why you're not working and if you've been looking for work. I've told them my situation, that I've been having panic attacks when I go out
All my pals are looking for work as well. But it's not that easy to get a job straightaway, you've got to write out your CV and everything and then hand it in to places.
Originally posted by SuperSecretSquirrel
I do not condone the government of any nation giving handouts. That should be up to the neighbors/churches/local governments to take care of their own.
Jobless Could Be Forced To Carry Out 'Community Punishments'
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by roknhrdcor
That's bollocks and you know it. Every member of the Royal family not on the civil list has a job or career. The ones on the civil list spend their entire lives attending functions, openings, gala's, foreign countries and the like at the behest of the UK Government. They have no private life and live to serve as living ornaments.
[edit on 2/12/08 by stumason]
the jobs I was forwarding him paid more than what he was on previously and had far better prospects, but so far he has declined the offers.
Elizabeth Malcolm, 43, has never had a job [...] Neither of her two working-age children have a job.
Elizabeth, known as "Biff" to family and friends, wishes now that she had got into work or college back in 1980, when she left school at 15.
Some of the excuses these cretins come up with for not working are unbelievable! Have a read:
They send for you every month to ask you why you're not working and if you've been looking for work. I've told them my situation, that I've been having panic attacks when I go out
I suffer panic attacks and have for years. Doesn't stop me working though! I also have palpatations, sore knee joints from Rugby injuries and poor eyesight in one eye. The ironic thing is I have to pay for dentistry and prescriptions, but this creature gets it for free, yet I'm the one out working and she just sits on her arse. You'd think she'd be the healthier one?
All my pals are looking for work as well. But it's not that easy to get a job straightaway, you've got to write out your CV and everything and then hand it in to places.
How does she think everyone else got a job????? Some magical fairy came to us and left it under the Christmas tree?
It disgusts me. I actually hate these people and their ilk. A complete lazy, bone idle attitude where they seem to expect everything handed on a plate.
Originally posted by stumason
If you can work and there is a job for you, yet you turn it down, the your benefits should be cut or you should be forced into community work like clearing rubbish, fixing roads or cleaning up graffitti.