Foodbank stats and stories

[vetran]

If you took away tax credit multinationals would have to pay a living wage, at the moment it's just a subsidy from taxpayers to mulitnationals

this.

[vetran]

Minimum wage is a living wage. It's just we have to have tellies, cigs, booze, mobile phones, latest clobba from the shop, cars, takeaways, game boys, play stations. People have their priorities the wrong way round.

you tried raising a family of 4 on £6.50 an hour?

Friends of mine do and they have my admiration.


That's £260 a week. After rent, energy, water & council tax there is sod all left.

I spend that on our mortgage.

[MarillionFan]

you tried raising a family of 4 on £6.50 an hour?

Friends of mine do and they have my admiration.


That's £260 a week. After rent, energy, water & council tax there is sod all left.

I spend that on our mortgage.

But that's my point. You've just calculated 40 * 6.50 per week. Two adults, two kids. Work a bit harder if two ends don't meet. Why is it always down to the rest of us to bail out people who don't want to work, don't want to get educated to get a proper job, don't want to do overtime, or god forbid cannot be bothered to get a job. I'm sick and tired of working my arse off to look after others.

If we didn't have benefits, food banks and a free NHS then frankly those at the bottom of the chain would have dropped off the ladder by now.

[d000hg]

If you get benefits when you're in work, then you're not working ******* hard enough.

Very few jobs pay you based on how hard you work. Tesco don't pay per can of beans you put on the shelf.

[d000hg]

If we didn't have benefits, food banks and a free NHS then frankly those at the bottom of the chain would have dropped off the ladder by now.

Yeah, there were no poor people before the welfare state... just look at all those countries without such things and you can see poverty has been eradicated.

Or not.

[MarillionFan]

Very few jobs pay you based on how hard you work. Tesco don't pay per can of beans you put on the shelf.

I was working 65 hours at the age of 18. I had three jobs, all of them on minimum wage. I then saved the money to go to University a few years later where I got a decent education. There was no-one to pay for me.

I had debt when I left University and the day after I left I immediately went to stacking shelves in a supermarket & took a bar job while I looked for something better.

There are no excuses.

[MicrosoftBob]

Because we have a low wage economy where a lot of people are on minimum wage and little prospect of earning much more

I've a lot more sympathy for people struggling on low wages, than those who give up and stayed unemployed as a career

Pay them a living wage, and we might have to pay a little more into the service sector shopping but that's going into there pocket, and most likely to be spent on booze and fags thus being heavily taxed

At the moment we subsidise companies to keep staff on minimum wage, meanwhile the proles think they are getting free money in the form of tax credits from the sparkly magic tree that produces an infinite source of money to bribe them with our money

[shaunbhoy]

I was working 65 hours at the age of 18. I had three jobs, all of them on minimum wage. I then saved the money to go to University a few years later where I got a decent education. There was no-one to pay for me.

I had debt when I left University and the day after I left I immediately went to stacking shelves in a supermarket & took a bar job while I looked for something better.

Hang in there MF. Something will turn up eventually! Failing that you could always go back to "working the docks" at Brixham to supplement things.

[d000hg]

We didn't have minimum wage when you were 18.

But anyway, so what? Not everyone can find one job, let alone 3... I know people who are smart and very keen to get work who struggle to even get a temporary job in a shop.

[TheFaQQer]

Food banks are better than just giving money

So give food to the food bank rather than giving money to the food bank.

Or give your time to the food bank if you are lucky enough to not be on the breadline and have some time to spare.