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UK politician would live on £53pw benefit

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    #62
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »
    Just trying to put forward some hard truths about the state of Irish society,

    Those at the other end of society, those beloved establishment people you so admire, have done untold damage to this nation and have walked away from the ashes as rich people. It's these cunts who should be queueing at the dole office and searching for cheap beer deals.


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    #63
    Sergeant
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Those at the other end of society, those beloved establishment people you so admire, have done untold damage to this nation and have walked away from the ashes as rich people. It's these cunts who should be queueing at the dole office and searching for cheap beer deals.

    That's how the cards get dealt. Deal with it. They won't be queuing up. The fact that many people take advantage of our ridiculously generous social welfare system stands.


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    #64
    Pappa Charlie
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    Fine Gael policy at its best!


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    #65
    Chuck Stone
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    Sergeant wrote: »
    That's how the cards get dealt.

    The game is rigged.


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    snubbleste
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    Torygraph - Iain Duncan Smith may yet have to eat his words and attempt to live on £53 a week
    A petition with more than 455,000 names calling on the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to back up his claim that he could live on £53 a week by doing so for a year was due to be handed in to his Whitehall department today.


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    Anynama141
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    IM0 wrote: »
    why was this given a red card and the first one not?
    I'm thinking because one was obviously a joke and the other wasn't.


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    #68
    Anynama141
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    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    It makes a lot of sense. The minister for transport should have to take the train / bus and find a parking space when they do drive. Ministers for Health and Education should have to use the public health and education systems, ministers for finance should be subject to all the taxes and cuts they impose, etc etc etc.

    The only way politicians will empathise with how their decisions affect ordinary people is if they themselves have to live like ordinary people.
    Who do you see volunteering for incessant public hatred and media scrutiny for minimum wage payments? If you think Fianna Failure were corrupt before, you ain't seen nothing yet...


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    #69
    shruikan2553
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Torygraph - Iain Duncan Smith may yet have to eat his words and attempt to live on £53 a week

    If he did it they would be complaining he is off proving a point instead of doing his job. He cant win


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