Mother who has never worked, encourages daughter to live off "benefits"

[jimnyc]

And this is the future if people don't learn personal responsibility and expect the government to hold their hands, and then having a government that allows it to be abused. While this particular story pissed me off, it isn't from the US, but might as well be, as this is the same story as far too many here in America.

Jobless mum advises her daughter, 19, to get pregnant - for an easy life on benefits

• Sinead Clarkson, 36, fell pregnant when she was 15 and has never worked
  
• She lives in a three-bed council house and gets £1,200 a month in benefits
  
• Ms Clarkson claims the benefits system makes it pointless for her to work
• She admits she has encouraged her daughters to also 'work the system'
  
• Ms Clarkson's eldest daughter Melissa, 19, is now six months pregnant

A jobless mother has provoked anger by urging her teenage daughter to get pregnant for an easy life on benefits.

Sinead Clarkson, 36, has no qualifications, has never worked and rakes in £1,200 a month from the State.

She has now admitted encouraging her 19-year-old daughter Melissa to follow her shameless example and ‘work the system’ by having a baby.

Melissa became pregnant six months ago, and is now in line for an extra £400 a month courtesy of taxpayers when her baby is born, as well as a two-bedroom council house.

Her mother, who has another daughter, Amie, aged 12, said: ‘I am better off on benefits. I refuse to work for a pittance and struggle.

‘I don’t have any qualifications so it is easier to claim money than persuade an employer to give me a job.

‘I told Melissa to work the system and have a baby so she could claim more benefits, get a house of her own and have a better life.
‘I don’t want her to work for peanuts in a low-pay job.’

Yesterday Robert Oxley, campaign director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, called for the benefits system to be overhauled.

‘It is a deeply depressing waste of taxpayers’ money and human potential for someone to aspire to live their life on benefits – worse still to promote the same for their children,’ he said.

‘The welfare system should never be an alternative to work. A system that allows people to see having a child as a pay-cheque is fundamentally flawed and needs further reform.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-benefits.html

[fj1200]

^That's just awesome. Sounds like a great "well-balanced outlook" that we should emulate here in the US.

[jimnyc]

^That's just awesome. Sounds like a great "well-balanced outlook" that we should emulate here in the US.

Sadly, it's emulated, or they emulated our losers.

[aboutime]

^That's just awesome. Sounds like a great "well-balanced outlook" that we should emulate here in the US.

They already are emulating it. With Obama's blessings. And You know that already.

On our way to Socialism with almost 50 million collecting Food Stamps, or Welfare.

How wonderful it must be to vote Democrat???

[tailfins]

So which is worse, getting benefits for getting pregnant in the US or UK or joining the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution and get a bounty for falsely accusing people of counterrevolutionary activities like they do in Cuba?

[Trigg]

The social programs in this country are already out of control.

Food Stamp Recipients Outnumber Women Who Work Full-Time

For each woman who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, there was slightly more than 1 other person collecting food stamps.

In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of Agriculture, there were 46,609,000 people participating in the food stamp program (formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). That contrasts with the 44,059,000 women who worked full-time, year-round in 2012,

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tere...work-full-time

[jimnyc]

The social programs in this country are already out of control.

Welfare programs in this country have skyrocketed since Obama took office. That's why you saw so many videos of people happy that Obama was getting elected, so they could get free gas, homes, cell phones, food...

"Don't vote for what you think is best for your country, but rather for those who will give you the most crap for free and allow you to sit on your fat asses and have no personal responsibility whatsoever"

[fj1200]

Welfare programs in this country have skyrocketed since Obama took office. That's why you saw so many videos of people happy that Obama was getting elected, so they could get free gas, homes, cell phones, food...

I think they've taken off because of the generally crappy economy due to his specifically crappy policies. The people on the videos who were so happy were already getting free crap anyway.

[Abbey Marie]

You are all being grossly unfair. People like the quoted woman support the economy by viewing TV shows all day like Jerry Springer, while their children get subsidized day care.