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Re: Only in Norway
As I work in socialcare I get a lot of odd e-mails and posts, usually about people not having money and wanting the state to pay for their shit.
My fave is beyond a doubt those who sends me angry e-mails about not having food or money, usually because they fucked up so their money has been stopped from our side.
It usually goes like this;
"What the fuck do you expect me to live on??!! I have no money! What do you expect me to eat? Air??!! I'm poor!!"
I always laugh when I see the bottom of the e-mail;
"This e-mail is sent from my iPhone".
Only in Norway...
Re: Only in Norway
Sadly those type of people aren't only Norwegians. The sense of entitlement some people here in oz seem to have regarding welfare and how it's the job of the government to provide is unbelievable. They do nothing to help themselves, they also always seem to have money for alcohol, cigarettes, iPhone etc etc.
Re: Only in Norway
Yes, and I am quite fascinated by it. They can afford iPhones, while I always decide not to get one due to economical reasons, and I have a decent paid job in this district.
One guy asked for welfare money and showed me his bank account. He had bought alcohol for 300 dollars.
Re: Only in Norway
Financial analysts talk about this stuff in America every day. One guy in particular I really like is Clark Howard.
People just have no concept in this generation of what needs and wants are. All wants are now considered needs, and natural needs are considered entitling requirement.
It's nuts.
I always get a huge laugh, and women are the worst about it, when they call into Howard's show and tell him about how they just can't balance their monthly bills well. Howard then will offer them to work it out live on the air, and he'll have a pen and paper out and trying to item-ize it with them, and then they'll say "$190 for satellite TV". Howard does a double-take, and then says "well that can be cut", and the women flip, "no no that can't be cut, that's a need". Yet the TV bill is what's sinking them each month. They can't afford health insurance or to feed their kids, but they pay $190 bucks a month for HBO and daily PPV movies.
Howard then just tells them "well you're not serious about fixing your bills are you. You've gotta get out of that mindset. TV is a luxury"
You'd think this happens every so often... nah... i'd say he gets a call like that every other day, 5 days a week on the radio. It never changes, and people never improve with it.
It's a sad commentary on life and the world. The attitude we have about entertainment, and luxurious food, and healthy foods and supplements, and soda, and TV packages, and cell phones, etc. being 'needs' and not changing that will eventually bury us imho.
Re: Only in Norway
LOL!! Brilliant, it's exactly what I deal with. One family came in and said they had no money for their kids medicine. We felt sorry for them, they didn't look in top top shape and so on. We felt sorry for them until we checked their income. Between the two parents they made 9000 dollars a month. Surely, if you change a few things around you could afford some medicine. Maybe drop that Premier League package you know.
TV is not a need and I never accept that as part of anyones needs to stay alive.
Re: Only in Norway
My Dad works here in a local branch of Centrelink. Basically they are the government department where people go to apply for all the welfare benefits provided by the government. Man some of the stories he tells are bloody funny, except for the fact it's my taxes that are being squandered.
Don't get me wrong a government safety net is extremely important and I don't at all begrudge many people getting it. But we seem to have a heap of "middle-class welfare" in this country as well as people that simply rort the system and don't want to help themselves.
One funny story my dad told me the other day was some woman came in wanting an emergency payment for something. She had already had one and she had also missed compulsory job seeking appointments and not submitted forms and some other shit. Anyhow when she realized she wasn't getting anything she stood in the middle of the centre, in front of everyone and yelled at the top of her voice "I suppose I'll have to go and sell my cunt then to get some money".
Re: Only in Norway
LOL!!!! Fucking fantastic. Your dad works in the same biz as me, although I also deal with work related things, and not just gov. department for money. The example you put forward is very common. They are on gov money, they need to do certain things to get money, and when they don't - they don't get any money. We've had people who says they will go sell their body, sell drugs - whatever, as if they are punishing us, and not themselves by doing it. It's a very odd way of thinking, but these people do it like that. Whatever happens to themselves because of themselves, are not their own fault.
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