Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Fully agree with all of this.
I think there's lots that could be done. One example is that many older people consider that by paying their taxes and stamp over many years that they have some entitlement to some of it back (in terms of things like winter heating allowance, free bus pass etc etc). Plenty of pensioners don't need this money and it could be better spent, but no government is ever likely to piss off pensioners and lose their vote.
One thing that annoys me is when people are labelled as benefit scroungers, wanting something for nothing etc. In the vast majority of cases, these labels are inaccurate, but it's easy to target people like that. Similarly, lots of people have no idea when it comes to disability. I'm not saying that there aren't people who cheat the system, but instances of this are far lower than most believe.