Welfare Benefits Quotes

“If a fairly substantial percentage of the money you and I work hard for is to be given to people too lazy to drag their arses out of bed at six o’clock in the morning, then we need assurance that they’re not spending our money on booze and drugs.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“Anybody who has been on Jobseeker's Allowance for more than six months must carry out some form of community work to earn their money”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“If someone’s been signing on for six months with still no sign of finding gainful employment, then in order to continue to receive their Unemployment Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance they should complete at least 30 hours of compulsory work a week with the idea being that not only do they benefit their own communities, but this would also assist them in developing basic employability skills”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“In a truly civilized society there wouldn't be any billionaire, nor will there be any homeless, for all the revenue generated through taxing the rich would be distributed among the people through welfare initiatives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Give me someone who was born elsewhere yet clearly demonstrates he wants to get involved over someone who was born here yet believes he/she has a right to the money you and I have worked so hard for”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“The Wessely School rejects the significant body of biomedical evidence demonstrating that chronic “fatigue” or “tiredness” is not the same as the physiological exhaustion seen in ME/CFS and persists in believing that they have the right to demand a level of “evidence‐based” definitive proof that ME/CFS is not an “aberrant belief” as they assert, when their biopsychosocial model of “CFS/ME” that perpetuates their own aberrant belief about the nature of ME/CFS has been exposed by other psychiatrists as being nothing but a myth.”
― Malcolm hopper

“If a fairly substantial percentage of the money you and I work hard for is to be given to people too lazy to drag their arses out of bed at six o’clock in the morning and put in a shift, then we need assurance that they’re not spending our money on booze and drugs.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“If people are not working, then why shouldn’t they take drugs or drink booze?

They can, but not when they’re signing on. And I’ll tell you why. If they’re stoned or pissed up then they’re impaired. And if they’re impaired then they can’t look for work. If you or I are impaired then we can’t work, and so WE can’t earn the money to pay THEIR benefits. So why shouldn't they be tested for drugs and alcohol to spend the money that we earn?”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“If you're on benefits you shouldn't get to vote.

You’re making no contribution to society, so why should you have a say in how it’s run? If you’re retired, of course you vote. You’ve made your contributions. If you’re a stay-at-home mum, then likewise you get to vote. And if ill or invalided in some way, the same. But if you’re fit and healthy and capable of mending a fence or stacking shelves, and you’re not doing either of those things, then you don’t get to vote.

I don’t want someone who’s too lazy to get a job making decisions on how this country should be run.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“The Medical Research Council’s PACE Trial of behavioural interventions for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) attracted considerable opposition from the outset and the Principal Investigators had difficulty in recruiting a sufficient number of participants. PACE is the acronym for Pacing, Activity, and Cognitive behavioural therapy, a randomised Evaluation, interventions that, according to one of the Principal Investigators, are without theoretical foundation.
The MRC’s PACE Trial seemingly inhabits a unique and unenviable position in the history of medicine. It is believed to be the first and only clinical trial that patients and the charities that support them have tried to stop before a single patient could be recruited and is the only clinical trial that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has ever funded.”
― Malcolm hopper

“There is rightful objection to the denial of appropriate investigations and to the nationwide implementation of behavioural modification as the sole management strategy for the nosological disorder ME/CFS. That strategy is believed to be based on (i) the commercial interests of the medical and permanent health insurance industry for which many members of the Wessely School work and (ii) the dissemination of misinformation about ME/CFS by the Wessely School, whose members also act as advisors to UK Government agencies including the DWP, which it is understood has specifically targeted “CFS/ME” as a disorder for which certain State benefits should not be available.”
― Malcolm hopper

“Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just 27 percent of poor families with children participate. There are more avid postage stamp collectors in the United States than welfare recipients.”
― Kathryn Edin, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

“Te iubesc aici pe mal mai tare decât iubește
Tănase bara-n meciuri,
Sunt în stare să alerg după tine ca Bănel
Nicoliță după ceilalți.

Nu pot să mă las de tine, am nevoie de
meseria ta babană
Nu mai primesc șomaj și nu am mai avut
salariu din mileniul doi,
dar pot să te atrag cu puterea mea de bărbat,
să fiu al tău slugoi.”
― Timotei Drob, Tone de aur

“Limited period basic income (provided to those in need) can strengthen the preexisting welfare system in its efforts to empower the people and invoke equality, whereas universal basic income will only weaken the fabric of society and create deeper disparities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“A government's first duty to its citizens, is to provide a fully functional welfare state. Welfare state ought to be the first refuge, not the last resort. A thriving welfare state produces ambitious citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“it goes without saying that bringing police horses to a disabled-led peaceful protest was a needless display of force”
― Hannah Sharland

“Eugenics wis aye a gey sair pynt - the richt tae chuse yer ain mairraige pairtner, especially the wumman's richt, wis yin o thair vauntit freedoms, in contrast tae the FZ. Nanetheless, the Eugenics Law wis desingt tae discourage fowk, nae twa weys aboot it, fae hain bairns wi expensive medical problems. Parents that deleeberately incurrt costs for an avoidable genetic ill or disabeelity got nae benefits, nae maternity leave, nae schuill place for the bairn, naethin.”
― Wulf Kurtoglu, Braken Fences