highwaystar101 said:
A. I was laughing because it just seems like such an unbelieveably high figure. B. Whilst I am wrong technically (16% - 17%, whatever), I am not wrong in my unbelief because 42% of those households only have one person eligible for employment and so it is a cherry picked statistic to make the situation sound *a lot* worse than it actually is. 17% of households makes you think *WOW* until you look at the figures behind it, then it becomes more reasonable. And it's about unemployment not leechiness, not all unemployed people are on the dole and the vast majority of the people who have recently become unemployed due to the economy are anything but lazy. Fair enough you get the 1-2% that is lazy but the vast majority of recent cases are people who are down on their luck. In fact there is nothing more than they would like to do than get back into employment, the people who are currently losing their jobs due to the economy are not lazy and leeching of society at all, trust me. In fact it's made me a little upset that you are trying to bring laziness into a debate about recent rises in unemployment figures. |
You really have good faith in people. I estimate it being 20% lazy people in Sweden dodging work, getting all sorts of wellfare to avoid work, blaming unemployment, health problems, social problems, anti-social behaviour, addiction or whatever.
Even if I respect Britons a lot more than Swedish people, it must be well over 10% lazy people in Britain too.
