Subject: URINE TEST: How True is This?

[trt]

Subject: URINE TEST: How True is This?

The Urine test (This was written by Paul Watson a fireman - What he says makes a lot of sense!)

I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit.

In order to earn my monthly pay, I work on a fire station for the Fire and Rescue Service, I am required to pass a urine test for drugs and alcohol at my three yearly medical, with which I have no problem.

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a benefits cheque because I have to pass one to earn it for them?

Please understand that I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet.

I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their backsides drinking beer and smoking dope.

Could you imagine how much money the government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a benefit cheque?

I think Paul Watson has a good point!


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[squarebear]

Would you feel the same way Helen if it were a medical student who graduated, became a doctor and saved your life?

I don't give a hoot what they do at university, as long as they are properly qualified for whatever job they choose.

[jake-the-peg]

If you're not happy with your life - if you think things could be better for you there's nothing worse than the idea that life is fair!


So - finding people that seem to be getting more than they deserve helps with the idea that life's unfair

There's nothing worse than the idea that life's somehow fair

That would mean that you deserve all the bad things that happen to you

[cazzz1975]

if you were on benefits you would have been able to claime housing benefit greedy

[Greedyfly]

Lol Red I am planning to be a student in the next student year - I can honestly say I won't be pishing it up the wall. I am still trying to get over the fact that I am not classed as a mature student lol - I feel old.

[Greedyfly]

Cazzzz - not at all, not if you live with someone who works (but earns pittance). I was entitled to nothing. Believe me I spent months trying to get help.

[McMouse]

So where are we then? Seems if you're poor, out of work, have children, smoke and drink and receive a benefit you should be labelled a work-shy scrounger and be required to take a urine test even though you don't want to be a fireman.
Whereas if you are an investment banker earning squillions and drinking Bollinger by the gallon and snorting cocaine by the bucketful you don't need the urine test.
Silly me, I understand this now.

[cazzz1975]

I have been there greedy, its a tough life but there is always someone worse off.

[cazzz1975]

lol mcmouse, as long as you have a 9-5 you can be a drug abusing waste of space and you will be respected ;)

[Mamyalynne]

McMouse beat me to it, there are lots of people in highly influential jobs who have heavy drug habits.

[Greedyfly]

Its rubbish but you just have to get on with it don't you. The system isn't fair and I don't think it ever will be. Unfortunately there are many people out there who know just how to play the system enough to eek out every last penny.

There are people who are in need of help and there are some people who are just plain lazy - but what can you do?

[Greedyfly]

Indeed Red - I will have to do the same, work and study but you do what you have to do. I am glad I am going to uni now as an adult rather than as a teen out of school - i would have wasted the experience I think.

And as Mam and Mcmouse say there are many people high up on the job ladder that spend a lot of there time just high. But they are at least working I guess and earning enough money to fuel there habits. =0

[NoMercy]

I think Mr. Watson has a very good point..

[Mamyalynne]

What does trt make of our varied responses I wonder?

[trt]

Very interesting and varied reply's, still think Paul Watson has a good point though?