No more money for drug addicts
YOUR headline about addicts on £7.4m benefits (Sentinel, October 25) is enough to get the creator of the benefits scheme Sir William Beveridge spinning in his grave.
Payments through hard times were meant to be paid on contributions made through taxes and national insurance.
Mike Jones, of CJI LTD, an alcoholism and drug addiction clinic says: "You have to support people who find themselves unable to work through drugs or alcohol."
Well, that's just fine and dandy Mr Jones.
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The good people of this country will keep working while scroungers throw ale down their throat all day knowing others are keeping their pockets lined.
Figures show a staggering £36.6 million in child benefit is paid to families whose offspring don't even live here.
Migrants are claiming for 40,000 children based abroad. Do our leaders not know the resentment this breeds from many who have worked all their life to fund this mess?
There is talk of deeper cuts to come in the benefits system from this Government.
Well, stop trotting along and get on with it, I for one do not wish to underwrite the lifestyles of any of the above people any longer.
DARREN MEADOWCROFT Hanley
Comments
by bettysenior
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 9:47PM
“The people in the Dept. of health are completely insane as recently when they were told that the Vietnamese government had introduced into their national health service a curative drug treatment that worked with no side effects such as 'cold turkey' and where it detoxified hard drug addicts on average in 72 hours, they simply did not want to know. Norman lamb with his senior civil servant should hold their heads in shame and it is clar that they have in reality no empathy with society.
The treatment takes 1 week to complete and where it is non-addictive as it comprises of 13 naturally growing non-toxic plant extracts, unlike methadone which is officially more addictive than heroin.
Now they has dispatched hundreds of thousands of addicts in the UK to further untold health and social problems.
It is another fine example that ministers and civil servants are all talk and when something happens that can really solve a great deal of the addiction problem through a treatment system that works and the only one in the world that does so, they simply do not wish to know.
Dr David Hill
Chief executive
World Innovation Foundation
United Kingdom - Switzerland”
by Jobeeone
Tuesday, October 30 2012, 5:46PM
“Beveridge researched what he called the 5 evils of society and wrote a paper on same. It influenced the creation of the welfare state based on the simple truth that weak people are not productive people. In other words the body needs basics to function.
He was a Liberal of the old variety and Bevan was a Labour man of the old variety.
Drugs and drink have been a part of life for centuries in this country and not confined to the 'working classes'. The Beveridge report was a result of working class or pleb army recruits being so weak that they were not fit to fight. The welfare state was because people demanded better and were owed a debt. That debt has been paid back in many cases by a rolling of the eyes and a frig rotten care home in which to end life. Private (profit making) of course.
Blame the toffs love. They make all the decisions on every level.”