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Listed below are comments made by dazzbat between Saturday, 22nd November 2008 and Friday, 27th March 2009.

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Back to Perthcelyn 5:36pm on 27 Mar 2009 Surely it would be better if physically capable people were made to earn their benefits rather than just the ‘hand out’ culture that exists today.
Why pay someone to sit at home when they could be cleaning their streets, painting railings, helping the elderly, etc.
Some may feel this is harsh but I think it is important that people do not lose the habit of working for a living.
Many of the so called ‘underclass’ in these valleys come from a long line of hard working coal mining families.
How has this culture of laziness and welfare dependency come about?
The answer is simple; we throw too much money at these people and ask for nothing in return.
It can be no surprise therefore that they turn their backs against the work ethic that everyone else abides by.

Furthermore, most non-welfare dependant families tend to have fewer children. Fact!!
For many this is because of financial restraint as much as anything else.
For welfare dependant families no such restraint exists, in fact every child is seen as a financial bonus and this was quite apparent from watching your documentary.
I do not have the answers to this particular problem and in this PC political age I cannot see any political party having the gumption to sort it out.

However, the two people in this documentary have had thirteen children all bar four of which are welfare dependant.
They now have twenty seven grandchildren who most likely (and I hope I am wrong here) will also be dependant on state handouts from the cradle to the grave.
A very basic grasp of arithmetic tells us that we have a massive problem here and it will just continue to get worse. By the time the next generation of this family comes along these two people may be responsible for literally hundreds of welfare dependant offspring.
The really sad and frightening thing about it all is that this family are not uncommon in these ex-mining communities.
Map of the week: Wealth of the nation 06:09am on 22 Nov 2008 The UK's recent growth has been like a house built on sand, the foundations are just not solid enough! Everyone felt richer because we believed our houses were going to continue to rise and the supply of money seemed intoxicatingly cheap and easy. As a nation we stopped being a producer and became a consumer. Most of the money that flowed around the system was from oli rich states and China, it was not created wealth, it was borrowed wealth. Now the supply has dried up, the tissue of lies that our economy was based on has become all too apparant. Our houses that we all depended on for our wealth are just 4 walls and a roof, that's it. I self built my house which really gives you a feel for the true value of property. I would recommend everyone do it. Maybe then we would collectivly know the true value of property and we won't be fooled again! What really winds me up is the way economists talk about 'corrections' and 'ecomomic cycles'. In my opinion this recession is going to be long and painfull and unlike the devastation of the 80's, this one is going to affect us all. Until we return to tradional values of creating wealth through manufacturing then I think as a country we will get poorer and poorer.

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