My mam told me yesterday that my generation don’t want to work, we just go on the dole. She’s 61 and nearing retirement, so it was nice to show her that her generation currently benefit from the lions share of welfare payments.
My mam told me yesterday that my generation don’t want to work, we just go on the dole. She’s 61 and nearing retirement, so it was nice to show her that her generation currently benefit from the lions share of welfare payments.
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For clarity, I’m on casual job seekers while working part time and studying for a diploma, I intend do go back into full time education in September (provided I can cover my fees).
My mam works full time in a high stress job so I don’t begrudge her being sour about the amount of tax she pays, but this blanket ‘I’m working just to fund a bunch of couch potatoes’ attitude really bugged me.
And instead of trying to shrink the pink area a wee bit the government decided to increase PRSI and put the pressure on the peasant class …
Probably better to pick your arguments since she would have contributed more to that than you over her 40 odd years of working
So do you support increasing the pension age?
Paying into a retirement system is considered welfare? I’m sorry, but I must be missing something here.
What she said is ignorant, but so is this post. Don’t you expect a pension when you retire?
If my mother told me that, I’d have told her that she should have done a better job raising me.
Fucking boomers
This shows total expenditure though; there are nearly six times as many OAPs in Ireland than there are unemployed adults. So the spend *per person* would be higher on the dole.
Please offer your mother my sincere apologies for not being in paid employment, and my gratitude for everything she has done for me.
Perhaps if any of the dozens of psychiatrists I saw in my twenties had done their job and realised I was autistic, I might have decided not to have children, who also turned out to be autistic.
If there were services and supports, god even early diagnostic for autistic children in Ireland, who knows how capable and independent my daughter might have been now. As it is, she’s unemployable and dependent, both on me and the state.
20 years out of the workplace caring for her, means I am also unemployable.
Maybe she could start punching up once in a while?
Do ‘State Pensions’ include public servant pensions or is it just the contributory pension?
My parents also held this view but quite frankly I am more then happy to pay into the dole as one I was rather impressed with the other things it afforded me to get back on my feet I am now in 3rd level 3rd year of my degree. This was all off a dole course I did after flunking out of college in my late teens. Also back to education is great though dealing with susi is baffling and I feel the two schemes should be somewhat combined. Last year I was on back to education but mum made 1k over the threshold so had to pay the fees massive pain. This year all sorted thank you minister Harris. But yea the dole has scammers but is useful for the people who want to make the most of it.
Everything about this post reeks of obtuseness.
You’re as bad as each other.
State pension is for people who are over the age of retirement. Retirement is not the same as the dole.
This is going to be major social friction cause of the 21st century in most countries. People are living longer on average, but retiring the same age so the balance of payers to payees it out of balance, especially as the payers are financially worse off than those retired – e.g. don’t own a house or ther assets.
There’s riots in France because the pension age is going up, it’s a very unpopular decision, but imagine the riots when there’s nothing left in the pot..
She’s not pension age, so it depends how you define her generation.
This post is funny, I was joking with my wife earlier that the elderly are just seasoned dole monkeys leaching off the state, and how 65 should be mandatory life termination age to save public funds… I won’t say it too loud, Fine Gael might get some ideas.
They need to make childcare free asap. If that means raising taxes or making cuts elsewhere, then so be it. We have a tremendous opportunity to stave of the next biggest crisis outside climate change – demographics. We have all the early warnings now at the expense of other countries that are further along that path. Is there any government we could elect that would have some foresight,