December 8th, 2008 at 07:23pm
400,000 pounds?!?
Good lord, that's like almost a million dollar house USD.
My mother is a single mother and she has one job and has to care for not only me but my sister AND bothe my grandparents.
Though about that, my father and my sister's father are both complete knobs and try to weasel their way out of paying child support, they have for years. So maybe a single parent with children from separate fathers WILL need benefits, I know my mother would certainly like some.
-_-
But when they just want to sit at home and not even attempt to, then they shouldn't. It is unfair for you to be discriminated against, and I agree about the whole set thing. My Brother is, I guess you could say more focused, maybe? Than me and he is in set 1 for everything whereas I'm not as focused but do better in other things and am in lower sets. The highest sets, like you said, are full of kids who would cry if they had a B(seriously).
But all of this 'tax cuts' crap is going to make our generation pay, because how else are they meant to make that amount AND MORE back? Charging more taxes, whoop(!)
Finksgirl, I agree only if the Mother was working/studying because it's all a bit of give and take, really.
My Mum ran for the council(local) here, she was with Plaid Cymru and then moved to Labour because they were 'garunteeing' her the place. In the end, she lost miserably and the other Woman that was promising 'door to door visits every month' among other things won, have we seen her since? Nope, and she's still claiming money to sit and do nothing.
What's more is that she agreed to go with Labour afterwards. I hope my Mum doesn't run again. Politics does bad things to good people...