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Welfare Wednesday

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    #122
    Jumboman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    Well tonight is the big night. I wonder will the pub be packed out ?


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    #123
    December2012
    Registered Users Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    Jumboman wrote: »
    Well tonight is the big night. I wonder will the pub be packed out ?

    It will.

    Be packed with journalists and bloggers waiting to see if it's packed.


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    #124
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Jumboman wrote: »
    Well tonight is the big night. I wonder will the pub be packed out ?

    Please let Niamh Horan and Alison O'Connor show up to do one of their Lois Lane Intrepid Reporter articles!! Maybe Barry Egan could do a bit of it on his society pages.


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    #125
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    I just got paid off my errr, job. I'd love to use my money to go down here tonight to protest, does anyone have the address? To go down and protest?


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    #126
    Paramite Pie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    I'm not on the dole (student but still unemployed) but I have my welfare card from before. Bonus!!:D


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    #127
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Do those in receipt of welfare not deserve a day/night out?

    I say this as someone who never received a cent from the state and never will

    Won't take the pension when it comes?
    Folks never claimed child allowance?


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    #128
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Paramite Pie wrote: »
    I'm not on the dole (student but still unemployed) but I have my welfare card from before. Bonus!!:D

    c u at 8?


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    #129
    Dirty Steve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Dirty Steve


    They should have just called it something else.

    Wacky Wednesdays or something; a name relating to social welfare payments is just idiotic.


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    #130
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,186 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Dirty Steve wrote: »
    They should have just called it something else.

    Wacky Wednesdays or something; a name relating to social welfare payments is just idiotic.

    188 Club would have been fitting :cool:


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    #131
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    To be honest, I don't understand this relationship people have with the dole. It's a service that is setup because, we, as a society, think it's good to have. Like, DublinBus. When you ride on DublinBus and even if you pay a fair, the amount you are paying is subsidized by the government.

    But it's a service and there isn't any reason NOT to avail of it.

    We have requirements for collecting social welfare benefits. If you qualify, and what to, you should collect. There isn't any moral or ethical question here. Smart, rich, politicians set up the rules. If you quality, according to the rules, congratulations, you are ENTITLED to it.

    After that, it is yours to do whatever you want it. If you want to spend it all on beer, that's your right.

    I'm not on the dole. I don't qualify for it. If I could, of course I would. And I'd spend the money I received, on whatever I wanted. That's the whole point.

    If we wanted a system that only gave out bread and water, we'd hand out bread and water.

    Now, if you disagree with how the dole works - fair play. Work to change it. But, it's silly to get upset at a business for targeting customers with discounts.


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    #132
    Idbatterim
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    nobody here disagrees with a welfare system. I have an issue with the rates and abuse of it... It could be at the rates it is, because that is what is deemed a reasonable amount OR, OR Bertie Ahern simply racked it up at double digit rates for years during a time of full employment to buy votes, take your pick folks...

    Also could someone please post me a link to figures indicating the starvation related deaths that were occurring before said massive increases took place?


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    #133
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    buzzing here still
    Idbatterim wrote: »
    nobody here disagrees with a welfare system. I have an issue with the rates and abuse of it... It could be at the rates it is, because that is what is deemed a reasonable amount OR, OR Bertie Ahern simply racked it up at double digit rates for years during a time of full employment to buy votes, take your pick folks...

    Also could someone please post me a link to figures indicating the starvation related deaths that were occurring before said massive increases took place?

    yea that makes sense m8 <3


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