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  • #812
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    If they are that embarrassed about it let them get a job.

    as in "Let them eat cake"?


  • #813
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Because the money is to cover their food and bills. Not to be drank, smoked, snorted or given over to Paddy Power.

    Not everyone does that you know, don't brand everyone with the same brush.


  • #814
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Graces7 wrote: »
    as in "Let them eat cake"?

    No, exactly what I said.


  • #815
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Not everyone does that you know.

    But plenty do.


  • #816
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Not everyone does that you know.

    Then their lifestyle wouldn't change one iota with the introduction of a smart card.

    So whats your issue with it?


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  • #817
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Not everyone does that you know.
    I've got first hand experience of walking past enough that do though.
    Dole day meant long queues in the offlicences in Ballymun when I lived there.


  • #818
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,831 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    How would one create a CV on a smartphone? Does the E30 smartphone come with just MS WORD, or the full MS suite??

    Word Mobile is a free cloud based solution that will facilitate doing up a good cv. If that is too difficult to use for someone, maybe anything that involves IT is not for them.


  • #819
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Graces7 wrote:
    as in "Let them eat cake"?


    Cake is a luxury, don't you know if the state is giving you money you should only consume gruel and water. Certain posters here want those on welfare to be as miserable as themselves.


  • #820
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    ELM327 wrote:
    We're not emulating American society, we could at least emulate the rest of the western world (except Ireland and the UK) and impose some limits on the numbers of years you can get SW payments. We are the only major western countries where you can live and breed (ad infinitum) without contributing a red cent.


    Breed? Aren't you just a lovely person. Time to expand my ignore list.


  • #821
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Cake is a luxury, don't you know if the state is giving you money you should only consume gruel and water. Certain posters here want those on welfare to be as miserable as themselves.

    You think people should be comfortable and happy while scrounging??


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  • #822
    engiweirdo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭engiweirdo


    All Seeing Eye wrote: »
    Food stamps are the way forward. Might stop the people of Cherryfield Avenue Athlone buying cans to drink outside their house during the day time.

    Caught a few fish along the way. Myself included fair dues. Enjoy your "wages" today buddy.


  • #823
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    PlaneSpeeking wrote:
    But plenty do.


    Plenty don't.


  • #824
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Breed? Aren't you just a lovely person. Time to expand my ignore list.


    Awh poor diddums. Touched a nerve have I? Oh well, I love how people think that's some sort of threat!


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Plenty don't.


    So we should not bother legislating for murder, because although some people murder other people, Plenty Don't?


  • #825
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    weldoninhio wrote:
    You think people should be comfortable and happy while scrounging??


    I think everyone is entitled to be happy and yes some comfort aswell. I really don't feel my life would be enhanced by making others miserable. That's just me though you clearly revel in the misery of others.


  • #826
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Then their lifestyle wouldn't change one iota with the introduction of a smart card.

    So whats your issue with it?
    ELM327 wrote: »
    I've got first hand experience of walking past enough that do though.
    Dole day meant long queues in the offlicences in Ballymun when I lived there.

    I have first hand experience of plenty that don't do that.

    In a few years time, you exact same people will be giving out about food stamps and wanting to introduce selected boxed food system, it will never end.


  • #827
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,779 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    All Seeing Eye wrote: »
    Food stamps are the way forward. Might stop the people of Cherryfield Avenue Athlone buying cans to drink outside their house during the day time.


    it won't no
    weldoninhio wrote: »
    How would stopping the "rent" for their social housing at source and giving people a card that can be used to buy food make the housing situation worse??

    because the possible costs of trying to make the card and the whole system around it work properly, would leave less government money to go toards housing.
    Samsgirl wrote: »
    If they are that embarrassed about it let them get a job.

    no jobs for them to get due to their unemployability. assuming we are talking about the long termers. for everyone else they will be working if they aren't already.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #828
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    I think everyone is entitled to be happy and yes some comfort aswell. I really don't feel my life would be enhanced by making others miserable. That's just me though you clearly revel in the misery of others.

    Happiness and comfort cost. Get a job and you can have both.


  • #829
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Cake is a luxury, don't you know if the state is giving you money you should only consume gruel and water. Certain posters here want those on welfare to be as miserable as themselves.[/QUOTE]

    That is not possible! These are world class champion misery guts! Bar none


  • #830
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    I have first hand experience of plenty that don't do that.

    In a few years time, you exact same people will be giving out about food stamps and wanting to introduce selected boxed food system, it will never end.
    Same question to you too:
    ELM327 wrote: »
    So we should not bother legislating for murder, because although some people murder other people, Plenty Don't?


  • #831
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    We will hear all the bleeding hearts and poverty industry professionals whinging tomorrow about not getting enough for the " underprivileged and vulnerable " in the Budget. Nothing about the poor lad who gets out of bed to do a days work..


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  • #832
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    I have first hand experience of plenty that don't do that.

    In a few years time, you exact same people will be giving out about food stamps and wanting to introduce selected boxed food system, it will never end.

    Good dodge, you haven't answered my question though.

    For the people that don't waste their dole on booze, ciggies, drugs, gambling etc, the card would not make one iota of difference to them. They'd buy the exact same things, but by card, like the majority of people do nowadays anyway.

    So what is your issue with introducing a card like this??


  • #833
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Happiness and comfort cost. Get a job and you can have both.

    They don;t actually. Not in the way YOU mean. The less you have the less you need to be content .


  • #834
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    weldoninhio wrote:
    Happiness and comfort cost. Get a job and you can have both.


    Have a job, same place for the last 22 years. You sound very bitter and resentful. Can't be conducive to your well being. You should concentrate on yourself instead of wanting to visit misery on others.


  • #835
    atticu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭atticu


    end of the road wrote: »


    because the possible costs of trying to make the card and the whole system around it work properly, would leave less government money to go toards housing.

    .

    Do you have anything to back that up?


  • #836
    Dublin Spur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    you can't beat a bit of free money


  • #837
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    atticu wrote:
    Do you have anything to back that up?


    It's not rocket science. Introduce a card and systems to handle it would cost the government money, leaving less money to spend somewhere else for example housing.


  • #838
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    He's 100% spot on, you need to join the real world I'm afraid.

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #839
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Edgware wrote: »
    We will hear all the bleeding hearts and poverty industry professionals whinging tomorrow about not getting enough for the " underprivileged and vulnerable " in the Budget. Nothing about the poor lad who gets out of bed to do a days work..
    No the poor lad who gets out of bed has to pay for the "underprivileged and vulnerable" (or the neaveau riche as I call them).


  • #840
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Good dodge, you haven't answered my question though.

    For the people that don't waste their dole on booze, ciggies, drugs, gambling etc, the card would not make one iota of difference to them. They'd buy the exact same things, but by card, like the majority of people do nowadays anyway.

    So what is your issue with introducing a card like this??

    Their free choice.


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  • #841
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Their free choice.
    It may be free to them but it's not free to everyone else who pays for it :rolleyes:


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