As people living on benefits move from third into fourth generations, I have been wondering whether they are actually capable of comprehending that they have become social parasites? Do they not grasp that a society cannot operate with such a 'drag factor'?
(My question is exclusively prompted by the way a longterm unemployed person was speaking and answering questions on local radio.)
Invariably, with the longterm unemployed, there is a refusal to accept work which is not very much more rewarding than current benefits.
Whatever happened though, to: dignity, pride, decency, self respect? Have they all entirely disappeared.
It really was much worse in the 1930s than it is now - but in those days the mentioned qualities were all still plentiful.
