jimnyc
04-17-2014, 01:39 PM
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/article-2605677/Mother-two-never-worked-encouraged-daughter-pregnant-council-house-easy-life-benefits.html
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/article-2605677/Mother-two-never-worked-encouraged-daughter-pregnant-council-house-easy-life-benefits.html