by
Bootneck
@ 2008-05-27 - 00:50:51
It is a daily occurance for someone to start a rant at work about "The bastard unemployed" and how much tax payers money they waste.
I obviously join in these conversations wholeheartedly. I do feel a tad uninformed though and think that you should make sure you have your facts straight pre rant. Therefore, I decided to trawl the web in an attempt to find out exactly what it's costing you and I.
So here's some figures I managed to dig up, so tat next time you are ranting about the unemployed at work, you can quote som numbers;
The total annual cost of those claiming unemployment benefit, disability and job seekers allowance etc is £61 BILLION a year.
The government conceed that the amount physically paid out is £11 BILLION.
The first figure is calculated by working out how much we tax payers have to put into the pot to make up for the tax that Would be paid in by all the jobless fuckers if they could be arsed to get out of bed.
To save you doing any maths, I can tell you that it works out at around £2'800 per tax paying household annually!!!
What's the World come too.
A look on the Government website reveals where some of our taxes are going. There are 1.53 million unemployed in the Uk. Then there's the 1 million economically inactive (those who aren't actively seeking work, but don't have a job or income either) add those 2.53 million to the 1 million (of 2.5 million cliaming disability) on incapacity benefit who are playing the system, then that's 3.53 million people getting the following;
£60 a week job seekers allowance or £85 a week disability
£19 a week child benefit for child one and £13 for every kid after that.
£500 child trust fund (employed get half that!!!)
A further £500 sure start maternity grant for every child.
Travel to and from Hospital paid,
Free prescriptions,
Free dental care,
Free eyesight tests,
Help towards the cost of glasses / contact lenses,
Free courses at College and travel paid to and from.
Healthy start scheme which entitles you to free milk/formula and fruit and veg every week when you've got kids.
No Council Tax payments,
No rent.
Jesus Christ that's a lot of money.
Don't forget of course that if you are claiming disability then you can claim a motorbility car. That is a new car (usually 07 plate or newer)with no road tax to pay or insurance.
Don't get me wrong I don't begrudge genuine disabled people getting around. However there are plenty of people playing the system. I know of a local lad who crashed a car he'd stolen, badly breaking his leg. He is now entitled to £85 a week incapacity instead of the £60 a week he was getting as a job seeker and now he's got a brand new car to drive around in. That doesn't seem right to me, what do you reckon?
There are of course hundreds of other crazy money wasting schemes out there. There's wheels to work, where youths are given new mopeds with free insurance so they can drive to the factory rather than get a bus.
There's the free nicotorette patches and gum the unemployed smoker gets on the NHS to try and quit. They wouldn't need to quit if they got food vouchers instead of money every week, they wouldn't be able to buy cigs in the first place to get started.
There's the free gym classes that are being handed out to the unemployd obese. Again my argument would be that if they didn't get so much money, they wouldn't be able to buy so much bastard food. If they were that keen to loose weight then why not start fucking running, that would cost the tax payer £0 a week.
Now think of all the individuals (and theres a lot) who we are paying for, who are in their late twenties and are mentally ill through drug abuse throughout thier teens. Drug induced phsycosis they call it. That's 40 to 60 years of care for every one.
Add that to the thousands of heroin addicts who are on drug treatment programs receiving free methadone and councilling etc. Then the thousands of heroin addicts not in drug treatment programs receiving free needles, free citric acid, free swabs, free councilling, free health visitors to check up on thier health and free treatment for deep vein thrombosis.
Then add that to the cost of upkeep of the millions of Council Houses up and down the Country. If two scummers fall out they will no dount resolve matters by smashing each others windows. They call the Cops, get a cime number which they give to the Council in return for free new double glazing.
It just goes on and on.
My advice to you is get out while you can because it'll only get worse.
Here's food for thought too, not only are we paying for all that, but if someone comes into this Counry from the Eu and has a child back in Slovakia, they can claim Child Benefits for that child or children even if they never step foot in the UK! What's all that about.
I'm sure there are loads of other handouts that didn't jump out at me, but I'm sure your average jobless piece of shite with ADHD and who can't read or write, knows them all inside out.