@ scarus
not at all - firstly, everyone's entitled to an opinion and they're all equally valid however different and secondly, money is arguably the most contentious of topics in any event!

ah well, my dad made me work weekends and holidays throughout my 3 years at uni because he thought it was good for me. and it was!! but it's a horrible shame if you wanted further education and didn't get the opportunity. so many people don't appreciate it. others go on courses that aren't really worthwhile just because their parents can afford the fees, whereas others who are much brighter and often much harder working don't get that chance because they can't. i'd have no whinge at all if my taxes paid for someone bright and hardworking but without the cash to get a degree. i'd be thrilled.

on the other hand, i really resent it when people get given free houses and free rent and free fittings and free dole money for contributing nothing. that winds me up no end. partly because we act for one of the major london councils, and i spend a portion of my day dealing with properties where tenants have ripped out all the new fittings - boilers, cookers, the works - and sold them. so the council re-fit them at a cost to the taxpayer of a fortune... and it happens again. and again. and again. also when i was a letting agent, i worked hugely long 6 day weeks for £9k a year. and tenants would come in and ask for 3 bed houses, sky tv, new furniture, the works - then when i asked for proof of earnings, they'd shrug a designer clad shoulder and say, "housing benefits innit".

it's this something for nothing attitude that gets to me. if i could see my money going somewhere worthwhile, great. when i see it being squandered, it makes my blood boil.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 12:14, Reply)