Do We Have An Endless Supply

[sandra4444]

Of cotton wool to keep wrapping people up in?
I can remember back in the 50/60s when my family struggled to pay fuel /food / rent bills, it really is nothing new, but you had to stand on your own two feet. If you didn't have the money you went without, or paid when you could, little at a time.

It now seems that every little problem families have they go screaming for handouts. How long can this carry on, and should it carry on?
In my view its teaching people nothing, you won't help anyone by keep on propping them up.

In another 5 months or so you will find some complaining that their kids will have no Christmas presents. Will Sunak come up with a giveaway for that also. :)

[Zacs-Master]

‘ Author The big draw back with all this is that the energy companies will be clapping their hands knowing the government will step in’

Apart from the 25% windfall tax that was announced at the same time, Sandra?

[fender62]

and people up and down the country still having kids yet the say they are skint and barely geeting by, yet have a bun in the oven, iv seen it.
iv seen whole families on benefits jetting off to spain, and even have cars...really, not saying all are like that of course, in my day, if you could not afford it, you went without, got a job any job, today some people are erm im not doing that, its embarrassing..

[lankeela]

60,000 Liverpool fans made their way to Paris - wonder how many of them claim they can't afford to eat or heat?

[lankeela]

I grew up in a north London council house, no heating, toilet outside the back door, no hot water and a bath in the kitchen that had to be filled from a gas boiler which you filled up to have a bath. Three kids, mum worked about three different jobs and yet we always had a hot meal on the table and new shoes when needed. We had caravan holidays every year at St Osyths and went on school trips - which I now realise my parents struggled to pay for - but we were not given hand outs from the government. Cold bedrooms but used hot water bottles and had a bucket to pee in to save going outside during the night. Hasn't done me any harm.

[david small]

Birmingham slum 50s. Shared toilet 25 yards down alley. One tap, cold only in kitchen. Tin bath once week. Army blankets. No carpets, or curtains.
Coal fire. Ex hospital beds. Money and food irregular. Seven kids.
Welfare orange juice. No benefits. Jumble sale clothing.
It mattered not. We had love, laughter, each other, and did not miss what we didn’t know existed.

[sandra4444]

The last two posts are a good example of how fragile and weak we have become.
It seems that the furlough payments got the ball rolling for other expected handouts. A good example of once you start giving / propping up it never stops.

Since the furlough payments stopped there's still a battle going on to get people out of their slippers and joggers back to the workplace even.