They seem to regard every penny spent on welfare as a dollar stolen personally from them. Conservatives in both our countries seem to exist in Dickensian worlds where poverty is always due to the moral faults of the poor, such as not having the "habit of work" (said by our outright evil Secretory of Work and Pensions), view being unemployed as a "sin" (him again). And the media, being generally rightist (both in my country and yours) repeat this demonizing wholecloth and, here, even buy into it with tv shows like Saints & Scroungers (here, the term "benefit scrounger" is roughly equivelent to "welfare queen"
that present benefit fraud as widespread when in reality, it's so rare that it costs more to root it out than allow it to continue and tell outright lies that it's possible to live better on welfare than working.
I'm disabled, for reasons of both physical and mental health. And, like most people in this situation, am very much aware that the public has been trained to regard me as lower than a child molester.
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