| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:It's more than just one quarter | |
| Posted by: | Claire Moran | |
| Date/Time: | 25/04/12 18:45:00 |
| Once people have tasted the good life - cheap foreign holidays, trainers on demand, eating out regularly, acess to expensive mobile phones etc etc the idea of cutting back is anathema to them. Probably easier for the older generation - I saw my parents scrimp and save to feed us and they only got a foot on the housing ladder because of the Tory policy (although they were very left wing) of selling off cheap council houses. I think that is one of the contributing factors to all this. That includes some (of course not all) benefit claimants. My father moved from where he lived in the North - and was happy with friends and family - to take a job in the South where he always felt a fish out of water - to feed his family. But some benefit claimants object to the idea of having to move away from friends and family. If they were offered a job 50 or more miles away would they still refuse to move? Judging from some of the interviews I have seen - probably. Life is tough - people need to accept it. There are a lot more opportunities for self-advancement these days than my parents had and both of them got their qualifications but studying at night school while holding down jobs and f looking after three children with no help at all as well. It sounds tough but people today need to get real and accept the good times have gone for now. |