if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
I Get Me Brain Medicine From the National Health
by Hal_10000
Ladies and gentlemen, the future of human evolution—homo hirudinea:
Known as the “Shameless” family among horrified neighbours, the McFaddens “boast” three generations of adults who are not working.
All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefits amounting to around £32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.Matriarch is grandmother Sue McFadden, 54. “Our neighbours are so snobby - they call us the “Shameless” family and say that we ought to go out to work. But how can we work when we have all these children to look after?
Well—and this is just my two shillings—you could start by not having any more fucking kids.
“The only problem is,” she says without a hint of irony, “that we’re living in a three-bedroom council house, which is ridiculous.
“I’m asking the council for a ten-bedroom home for all of us. We need more space. It’s awful sometimes when all the children are squabbling. Still, we do have a big TV with Sky, but we need some relaxation.”
Of course they do, poor lambs. What a damning verdict on our claim-it-all society, a grotesque mirror of the dark television drama Shameless. That show features fictional father-of-eight Frank, who is work-shy and self-pitying. Living on the Chatsworth Estate, he heads a family of dysfunctional teenagers living on an estate of benefit claimants and cheats.
The McFaddens bear an uncanny resemblance. Grandmother Sue is divorced and has three daughters, Theresa, 34, Debbie, 32, and Tammy, 24. None of the adults living in the house in Ellesmere Port, near Chester, has a job, and there are also six grandchildren living at home - Kyle, 18, Clayton , 12, Tyler, nine, Courtney, eight, Jodie, seven, and Lucas, six.
But the really disturbing aspect of the McFaddens’ lifestyle is that they are far from alone. Six million Britons are living in homes where no one has a job and “benefits are a way of life”, according to a report by MPs. Shock figures also revealed that 20,000 households in Britain are pocketing more than £30,000 a year in state benefits.
With thousands of children growing up in families where their parents and grandparents have never worked, a senior government adviser warned this week of a “terrible legacy” of youngsters who had no expectation of ever getting a job.
Oh, God, I can’t go on. Click the link if you want to read the whole pathetic story. I defy anyone to read the article and emerge with a systolic under 200. And we think we have welfare queens in this country.
Comments
I’ve met a few welfare queens in my life, but those people right there are on a whoooooooooole ‘nother level of being complete parasites compared to what we have in the US.
Thankfully, their neighbors are disgusted by them too or I’d worry even more for the British.
Who do these people think they are, the Royal Family?! ;-)
But seriously folks, for once I’m with Seattle.
‘Congratulations McFaddens! As your entire family is on the dole, your entire family is, effective immediately, entirely the property of the British Government! And we’re doing a study of how long the human head can remain conscious of its environment after it’s been separated from the remainder of the torso via guillotine...’
I’ve been reading Intellectuals by Paul Johnson, and these people embody Marx during his lifetime: don’t do anything productive and expect others to support your lifestyle without giving anything back in return.
Is it too early to declare myself a British citizen and start demanding my council house and 32,000 pounds a year?
"i say we dust off and nuke the site from orbit, its the only way to be sure,”
It speaks volumes about their attitude that they not only agreed to a story that would only make them look bad, but that it included a request for a 10-bedroom council house! I hope that there is no such thing, but I’m almost afraid that there is.
I remember when my dad told me that some people on welfare thought they were owed it “to raise these children for America,” I thought he was lying. I later found that he wasn’t, and it’s spreading!
This doesn’t surprise me in the least, and is probably way more common that you’d think. My mother is from Scotland, so all her family still lives there. Last time I was there, almost everybody I met in the entire small town where most of the family lives doesn’t work at all (including some of my aunts/uncles there). These are able-bodied, normal people that are quite capable of working. On top of that, most of the kids are shiftless and don’t bother attending school, since the council will set them up with an apartment and they can get on the dole for income once they get to be 18 or when they get knocked up at 16.
It’s really pathetic. The soft socialism has robbed them of their desire to achieve anything with their lives and made them zombie slaves who wait for the state to give them a handout.
gretzky, doesn’t Scotland have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the UK? I thought I remember reading that somewhere about a year ago.
You are right--not a whole lot of incentive to finish school when you know the government is going to pay your bills for you.
Careful getting too high & mighty over this. Our country is heading this way, and it isn’t even just the left-wing nutjobs. Our president signed a bill giving tax rebates to people who don’t pay taxes…
gretzky, doesn’t Scotland have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the UK
If it’s not the highest, it’s gotta be right up there. Even one of my cousins that lives there, who is about a year younger than me, had 2 or 3 kids by the time she was 18 or 19.
I think my mom was lucky to “escape” from there. She came back here with my dad after he got out of the Navy and made a much better life for herself. She always comments when she comes back from a visit that while she loves her family, it gets to be a bit depressing after a while to see how stale everyone is.
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I’d give the option of either being executed or having all their benefits cut off....