Mixed Opinions.

Didn't really dig my camera out today, so you'll have to settle with a shot took with my phone.

This is a clipping from my local paper concerning the recent changes in the budget announced.

I'm personally not opposed to them, that's mainly cause they don't affect me. I work hard and pay my way, I have a mortgage and no children, so I don't get anything free of the government.

In fact I'd quite happily vote for someone with policies that may affect me if it results in people on benefits getting hit harder. You might see that as mean, but I don't. Why should we expect the government to fund our children? To me a child in this day and age is luxury, if you cannot afford one then don't have one.

If a person does not work and never intend on doing so receiving handsome hand outs of the state, should they then have the right to say "I deserve/expect x, y and x as I pay taxes"? When in theory they don't, see in theory my tax is handed to them, then they are taxed on my taxes, so my taxes are also factionally paying a their taxes too.

Then the 'Bedroom' tax, this is where I get mixed feeling. If you have an extra bedroom while larger families do without, is that fair? No. But if people were not rewarded for having children to start, their would be no larger family in the first place. Also many are protesting saying "we'll have to pay x or y a week", they won't be paying anything, just simply receive a smaller hand out. That's not paying in my book.

This all may sound radical, but I'm fed up of working 100's of hour while friends (by choice) sit doing f**k all and get paid to do so. I have friends and family that have never worked a proper day in their life and don't indent to neither, the only benefit they should get is a vouchers for milk and bread.

I apologise if this offends any strangers out there, I also understand that many people living on benefits are busting a gut to find a job or sadly experienced losing one, but not for one second do I have an sympathy for anyone who won't help themselves but expect the world.