Have a child, get a free house.

Dowl88

A load of people I know all have children and are getting the dole and a lovely modern house to live in for free. Before anyone says its not free its feck all a week, like 30 euro. This is outside Dublin.
Most are unskilled and one said she wont go back to work because shes better off on the dole which really peeved me off, she has a car, can go out drinking and goes on holidays. Livin the dream!

Heres myself on 30k in Dublin, getting taxed to pits, paying 600 for a bloomin crappy box room as I cant afford a house or decent apartment.

Somethings not right with our culture!

Tokyo

Here we go again....

You need to have a kid OP, they'll get your free house to you in a week or two... :rolleyes:

osarusan

I doubt there'll be much interest in this topic in AH.

Turtyturd

Get arrested for not paying your tv licence, free board, free food, free clothes, and they pay you.....that'll learn her.

Dowl88

Dowl88 wrote: »

A load of people I know all have children and are getting the dole and a lovely modern house to live in for free. Before anyone says its not free its feck all a week, like 30 euro. This is outside Dublin.
Most are unskilled and one said she wont go back to work because shes better off on the dole which really peeved me off, she has a car, can go out drinking and goes on holidays. Livin the dream!

Heres myself on 30k in Dublin, getting taxed to pits, paying 600 for a bloomin crappy box room as I cant afford a house or decent apartment.

Somethings not right with our culture!

Done to death on boards, but go ahead.

Nodin

Dowl88 wrote: »

A load of people I know all have children and are getting the dole and a lovely modern house to live in for free. Before anyone says its not free its feck all a week, like 30 euro. This is outside Dublin.
Most are unskilled and one said she wont go back to work because shes better off on the dole which really peeved me off, she has a car, can go out drinking and goes on holidays. Livin the dream!

Heres myself on 30k in Dublin, getting taxed to pits, paying 600 for a bloomin crappy box room as I cant afford a house or decent apartment.

Somethings not right with our culture!

You're right. Absolutely right. Hang on a tic and I'll get me pitchfork.

Strong Life in Dublin

Haha noting is stopping you OP, go down to dole office tomorrow and get your free house

131spanner

People, what a bunch of bástards!

JonEBGud

It's not all fun and games for her boyfriend though.
He has to sneak in and out of the house at unsociable hours. . .

lertsnim

Turtyturd wrote: »

Get arrested for not paying your tv licence

Get arrested for disobeying an order from a judge you mean.

smash

Dowl88 wrote: »

A load of people I know all have children and are getting the dole and a lovely modern house to live in for free.

You need to find some new friends!

Hande hoche!

I hear that if you're an immigrant you get a helicopter too.

Dowl88

smash wrote: »

You need to find some new friends!

Not really friends, just people I know and would have a chat too.

corner of hells

Nodin wrote: »

You're right. Absolutely right. Hang on a tic and I'll get me pitchfork.

I'll get the flaming torch.

Barely There

mike_ie wrote: »

Here we go again....

You need to have a kid OP, they'll get your free house to you in a week or two... :rolleyes:

And when you get a buggy for the kid, don't bother trying to get it on or off buses, just fcuk it on the ground because the govt will buy you a new one*






* Only applies if you're an immigrant.

smellmepower

Dowl88 wrote: »

A load of people I know all have children and are getting the dole and a lovely modern house to live in for free. Before anyone says its not free its feck all a week, like 30 euro. This is outside Dublin.
Most are unskilled and one said she wont go back to work because shes better off on the dole which really peeved me off, she has a car, can go out drinking and goes on holidays. Livin the dream!

Heres myself on 30k in Dublin, getting taxed to pits, paying 600 for a bloomin crappy box room as I cant afford a house or decent apartment.

Somethings not right with our culture!

If you really think life relying on state handouts is a cushy number go down the social in the morning and sign on.

It isn't though,and you won't.

Your problem is more with the lack of affordable housing in Dublin,which the government does nothing about because they don't want to upset voting landlords who are creaming it.

Pumpkinseeds

The OP is right. Forget social housing if you don't have kids or a criminal record.

Smidge

corner of hells wrote: »

I'll get the flaming torch.

I don't think we'll be needing the popcorn though

corner of hells

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I hear that if you're an immigrant you get a helicopter too.

With an attachment for a buggy.

suicide_circus

I heard that public service administrators drink the tears of middle income families.

c_man

Have a child, get a free house.

Yeah, but I'd have to find a woman who's willing to have sex with me first.

I won't stop my rent direct debit so

AnonoBoy

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I hear that if you're an immigrant you get a helicopter too.

That's why you see helicopters abandoned at bus stops all the time. The dole just gives them a new helicopter the next day if they can't fit it on the bus with them.

Duggy747

I heard you get a mansion on the moon with a monkey butler if you're on the dole.

Meanwhile, us working chumps have to work 32 hours a day and have to walk 15 miles to get 3 years length of rope for our mules so we can power our carrot-generators.

Wicklowrider

I was in Minnesota about 15 years ago.
There were some kind of state elections going on, maybe for governor.
I was paying no attention until I heard one man addressing the issues of unemployment and welfare. Then it got entertaining really fast - a bit like After Hours in real life. He started by reading a list of people's names who were claiming welfare for years and then challenged them to call around to his office to see if he could get them work. Then he went went on to unmarried mothers.
He proposed a building ( I imagined a barracks....) that was basically a secure block of apartments. The mothers had to sign in and out and were only allowed visitors up til a certain time.Their welfare would be reduced to pocket money but food and services would be provided. All hell broke out at the debate. Would love to see a debate like it here ( about any subject)2 of the representatives even came to blows and were removed by cops. Few things say "democracy" like 2 vietnam vets battering the head off each other

MarkR

Urgh. Working class people giving out about peasants. *adjusts monocle* Just get your parents to buy you a house, problem solved.

PLL

My partner and I had a child at 20, we have since then paid €900 a month in rent, all our own bills, not claimed any benefits, my partner has a great job because he worked hard and went to college while working at the same time. I am going back to college in September so that I can also be educated, and have a career myself.

The people that have kids and claim benefits or live at home with mammy and daddy and then think they can relate to my life grinds my gears like you cannot imagine. You are not an adult, you are not living in the real world. F*ck off.

Seen the title & thought I'd somehow ended up in the bargain alerts thread.

Putin

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I hear that if you're an immigrant you get a helicopter too.

And a free speed boat.

SEPT 23 1989

Would you bring up a kid on your own for a couple of hundred quid a week OP

no glamour in that life

smash

Putin wrote: »

And a free speed boat.

It's a recession! They just get a Jet Ski these days.

corner of hells

AnonoBoy wrote: »

That's why you see helicopters abandoned at bus stops all the time. The dole just gives them a new helicopter the next day if they can't fit it on the bus with them.

My friends uncle collects them abandoned helicopters and keeps them in a warehouse.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

If I already have a house, can I get a free child?

LynnGrace

I saw some abandoned car seats at a bus stop recently. Does that count?
(They were manky, and were dumped beside the litter bin).

Smidge

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If I already have a house, can I get a free child?

If you collect butter vouchers you can get several.

sashafierce

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Pumpkinseeds

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Would you bring up a kid on your own for a couple of hundred quid a week OP

no glamour in that life

The people doing it don't look at it as a negative thing. They grew up with parents who didn't do an honest days work and they themselves wouldn't work to warm themselves, their kids will probably be the very same. Once someone's rent/mortgage is paid that's the biggest monthly expense out of the way. If they're paying 20 or 30 euro a week for a house/flat they're laughing.

They can get cheap accomadation and whatever benefits are going for having a child or they can get off their arses and go work for minimum wage. The fact remains that there's a whole culture out there of people who want to have kids and live on benefits. That has to be stopped and the only way it will be is to stop giving them free or cheap housing.

Frankly if a couple with kids, neither of them are working, can afford foreign holidays every year and to buy, tax, insure and put petrol in a car as well, there's something very very wrong with the system. We have a family like that local to us, 5 kids, they're just back from a holiday in Lanzarote. Neither of thems ever worked. Neither sets of parents, grandparents or any blood relatives of theirs have ever worked. Pisses me right off.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Smidge wrote: »

If you collect butter vouchers you can get several.

I like this idea, but will I not just end up with a fat kid?

omega man

I'd like to think it's only a minority that abuse the system. However it's tough when all you seem to do is work and pay your wages over to the government by means of various taxes and then the rest on mortgage, bills etc. that's life I guess but then you experience first hand how others are seemingly doing it differently and then it hits home hard.

Neighbours of mine, neither of whom have worked in a number of years, seem to get by nicely. He does odd nixers whilst she minds a load of other peoples kids. Now they don't live it up but they have a kids, mortgage, decent car and holiday in Ireland a couple if times in the year. He also manages to visit the local 3-5 nights a week without fail. They certainly don't appear to be struggling that's for sure. I assume they get a number of associated benefits ie, mortgage relief, med card etc etc.
its hard to accept if I'm honest.

Ave Sodalis

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

The people doing it don't look at it as a negative thing. They grew up with parents who didn't do an honest days work and they themselves wouldn't work to warm themselves, their kids will probably be the very same. Once someone's rent/mortgage is paid that's the biggest monthly expense out of the way. If they're paying 20 or 30 euro a week for a house/flat they're laughing.

They can get cheap accomadation and whatever benefits are going for having a child or they can get off their arses and go work for minimum wage. The fact remains that there's a whole culture out there of people who want to have kids and live on benefits. That has to be stopped and the only way it will be is to stop giving them free or cheap housing.

Frankly if a couple with kids, neither of them are working, can afford foreign holidays every year and to buy, tax, insure and put petrol in a car as well, there's something very very wrong with the system. We have a family like that local to us, 5 kids, they're just back from a holiday in Lanzarote. Neither of thems ever worked. Neither sets of parents, grandparents or any blood relatives of theirs have ever worked. Pisses me right off.

This is the biggest load of horse manure I've ever read...

ScumLord

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If I already have a house, can I get a free child?

I just found a child, I was going to go down to the welfare office and trade it in but maybe we can come to some sort of arrangement?

dar100

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

The people doing it don't look at it as a negative thing. They grew up with parents who didn't do an honest days work and they themselves wouldn't work to warm themselves, their kids will probably be the very same. Once someone's rent/mortgage is paid that's the biggest monthly expense out of the way. If they're paying 20 or 30 euro a week for a house/flat they're laughing.

They can get cheap accomadation and whatever benefits are going for having a child or they can get off their arses and go work for minimum wage. The fact remains that there's a whole culture out there of people who want to have kids and live on benefits. That has to be stopped and the only way it will be is to stop giving them free or cheap housing.

Frankly if a couple with kids, neither of them are working, can afford foreign holidays every year and to buy, tax, insure and put petrol in a car as well, there's something very very wrong with the system. We have a family like that local to us, 5 kids, they're just back from a holiday in Lanzarote. Neither of thems ever worked. Neither sets of parents, grandparents or any blood relatives of theirs have ever worked. Pisses me right off.

Great private detective skills there. Maybe look at it as a way to earn a little extra income, instead of been bitter:)

Fabreo

mariaalice wrote: »

Done to death on boards, but go ahead.

Not everyone spends their lives on boards.

MRnotlob606

I agree

donegal__road

smellmepower wrote: »

If you really think life relying on state handouts is a cushy number go down the social in the morning and sign on.

It isn't though,and you won't.

Your problem is more with the lack of affordable housing in Dublin,which the government does nothing about because they don't want to upset voting landlords who are creaming it in government.

:eek:

FloatingVoter

Posting drivel on boards while you're meant to be counting the paperclips has led may a poor soul to the dole queue. The expected free house, the free car, multiple prams, the free bus pass alas are not there awaiting you.

Yes, this is what happened to me.

eisenberg1

Duggy747 wrote: »

I heard you get a mansion on the moon with a monkey butler if you're on the dole.

Meanwhile, us working chumps have to work 32 hours a day and have to walk 15 miles to get 3 years length of rope for our mules so we can power our carrot-generators.

:D

Tell that to the kids of today and they wouldn't believe you...:D

Tasden

PLL wrote: »

My partner and I had a child at 20, we have since then paid €900 a month in rent, all our own bills, not claimed any benefits, my partner has a great job because he worked hard and went to college while working at the same time. I am going back to college in September so that I can also be educated, and have a career myself.

The people that have kids and claim benefits or live at home with mammy and daddy and then think they can relate to my life grinds my gears like you cannot imagine. You are not an adult, you are not living in the real world. F*ck off.

So your partner worked a good job and paid your bills etc. And now you're going to college while your partner will help you, either financially or through supporting you practically with your child (minding child while you study, doing the drop offs at creche etc.)?
Some people get support from the state or from their parents or wherever else, you're no better or worse than them just because your support came from a loving partner. Not everyone in the positions you mentioned are wasters that know nothing about your so called "real world".

swimming in a sea

The top and bottom take from the middle,, The top take taxes off the middle to give to the bottom who pay for cigs\beer\lottery\etc. which boost profits of company's for their executives\ex gov ministers the Top...

It not going to change so get into the top or maybe you'd prefer repeats of TopGear on Dave.

Arcto

I was at the bus stop last week and there was a woman with 3 kids and a house there. The bus driver said there was no room for the house so she left it there and said "Sher the council will give me another one".

Shamefull society.

FloatingVoter

swimming in a sea wrote: »

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It not going to change so get into the top or maybe you'd prefer repeats of TopGear on Dave.

You've got to watch Top Gear so you can know if the social are ripping you off next time they give you a free car. Its edumacational, bud.

Owryan

Dowl88 wrote: »

Not really friends, just people I know and would have a chat too.

Do they know you are on board bad mouthing them