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wraymond · 25th January 2018, 00:15

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With so many working people earning only the minimum wage, and struggling to make end meet, it is a reasonable question to raise whether someone who can afford to top-up their DLA to purchase a high-end car should receive the DLA at all.

If we were not closing schools and hospitals due to a lack of finance, the above question would not arise. But, as it is, we are doing just that so IMHO the question is a reasonable one.
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Your knowledge of the subject is negligible. You are forming an opinion based on populist guesswork and without reference to any sourced facts.

You seem to be linking a person’s presumed income to their eligibility for benefits when the only criterion in this case is one of disability. Your statement about closing hospitals for lack of finance is hopelessly wrong – google NHS and the amounts of grants received from government since 2010 to date. Although I have no interest in educating the uniformed or ill-informed – do your own due diligence and research rather than rely on rather ignorant dogma. To get you started see below.

If you cannot accept facts come up with authoritative sources for your opinion such as the numbers of people on minimum wage who are questioning this (OP) benefit or the number of so-called high-end cars concerned.

Finally, who said this particular question is unreasonable. You predicated your opinion with false premise and no research, not helpful to the OP.

Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, NHS Chief and philanthropist

Current: according to NHS England, by 2020 the service will need an extra £30 billion a year just to stand still. By comparison, the police cost us £12 billion. The government are now putting £116 billion in to NHS England every year, up from £100 billion when they came to power in 2010. In the three months between April and June, trusts overspent by a total of £1 billion, more than their combined deficit for the whole of 2014. Wait until winter…

That is continuing fact. The problem is not underfunding but overworking by exponential increasing of conditions being offered that were never intended. In addition, the invention of PFI by the previous government has only succeeded in introducing a profit where there was none, huge salaries and expense accounts for managers and multiple tiers of administrators devoid of clinical training. Please, do some homework before forming simplistic opinion.

25th January 2018, 00:15	#44
wraymond This is my second home 75 Auto 2.5 SE Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Westcliff on Sea Posts: 5,195 Thanks: 423 Thanked 1,680 Times in 1,014 Posts	#42 mss join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Suffolk Posts: 3,262 Thanks: 538 Thanked 1,268 Times in 784 Posts With so many working people earning only the minimum wage, and struggling to make end meet, it is a reasonable question to raise whether someone who can afford to top-up their DLA to purchase a high-end car should receive the DLA at all. If we were not closing schools and hospitals due to a lack of finance, the above question would not arise. But, as it is, we are doing just that so IMHO the question is a reasonable one. End of quote Your knowledge of the subject is negligible. You are forming an opinion based on populist guesswork and without reference to any sourced facts. You seem to be linking a person’s presumed income to their eligibility for benefits when the only criterion in this case is one of disability. Your statement about closing hospitals for lack of finance is hopelessly wrong – google NHS and the amounts of grants received from government since 2010 to date. Although I have no interest in educating the uniformed or ill-informed – do your own due diligence and research rather than rely on rather ignorant dogma. To get you started see below. If you cannot accept facts come up with authoritative sources for your opinion such as the numbers of people on minimum wage who are questioning this (OP) benefit or the number of so-called high-end cars concerned. Finally, who said this particular question is unreasonable. You predicated your opinion with false premise and no research, not helpful to the OP. Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, NHS Chief and philanthropist Current: according to NHS England, by 2020 the service will need an extra £30 billion a year just to stand still. By comparison, the police cost us £12 billion. The government are now putting £116 billion in to NHS England every year, up from £100 billion when they came to power in 2010. In the three months between April and June, trusts overspent by a total of £1 billion, more than their combined deficit for the whole of 2014. Wait until winter… That is continuing fact. The problem is not underfunding but overworking by exponential increasing of conditions being offered that were never intended. In addition, the invention of PFI by the previous government has only succeeded in introducing a profit where there was none, huge salaries and expense accounts for managers and multiple tiers of administrators devoid of clinical training. Please, do some homework before forming simplistic opinion. __________________ member no. 235 Last edited by wraymond; 25th January 2018 at 00:18..