Margaret Cash steals €300 worth of clothes from Penneys and aftermath/etc!

You know I don't expect nor rely on the extra 5 or 10 euro the budget brings me as an average industrial wage worker. Excluding 6 months following a redundancy in 2010, I have worked since leaving school in 1997 and I know that budgets and economic boom times don't necessarily transfer over to a big increase in wages. What does frustrate me is the sector of society which expect everything and more from the government just because the media isn't telling them we are in a recession.

I went for a walk last week around my town and while on this walk following my days work I observed a young couple with a baby in a buggy, chatting to another person. The 'dad' in this couple was very loudly spoken and had a thick Dublin accent, nothing wrong with this, I'm a Dub myself. What was obvious from hearing his voice however was that slurred speak that you might commonly hear from habitual drug users, aka junkies. When I got closer still I noted that this person had several tattoos, nothing wrong with this, I'm a fan of body art and the ingenious designs that can be created. The problem was that these tattoos were on his neck, cheek and forehead.

Now, what's the point of my ramble? Well in this case I made an assumption and that was that this person does not work, may never work and will likely be a continual draw on the social welfare system, a bit like the person whom this thread is about. And to go along with that thought, I will be the one paying for it along with my society contributing brothers and sisters (I mean every other taxpayer, not my actual family). As maddening as this is, nothing will change on that front in the foreseeable future, there won't be protests or Facebook posts sharing the disgraceful government. We'll all just be too busy contributing to society to have the time to do it, or secondly risk the possible shame of speaking such views openly in case we are branded as the next Trump.