Spend welfare budget on roads and rail?

[Bunk]

So I still stand a chance of becoming a politician then?

Nope, he said you were making sense, therefore you're unelectable

[SueEllen]

How about switching QE to infrastructure spending thus creating jobs and moving out of welfare?

Pensions need their pension after all they contributed to them and most of them aren't fit enough to work again. (Or where did you think most of the welfare budget went?)

[vetran]

Pensions need their pension after all they contributed to them and most of them aren't fit enough to work again. (Or where did you think most of the welfare budget went?)

under half of the welfare bill is state pension. They include it so they can shout remember the pensioners!

UK welfare spending: how much does each benefit really cost? Visualised | News | theguardian.com

that also forgets that many pensioners lose much of their state pension because they have a private one. So the payouts may not reflect those taxed out of a pension.

HM Revenue & Customs: How your pension income is taxed

we should split it up and focus on the large number of unemployed and unemployable who need our help to get back to work.

Also now many future pensioners have never contributed a significant amount to their state pension. Taxation at the bottom end means that a good portion of the workforce receive more in work benefits than they pay in tax.

logic not emotion.