Just received the following e-mail and thought it might amuse some of my fellow expats from the U.K.

"The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living"

This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. It's her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare system that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.

Put me in charge……..

Put me in charge of benefit payments. I'd get rid of cash payments and provide vouchers for 50kg bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese, basic sanitary items and all the powdered milk you can use.

If you want steak, burgers, takeaway and junk food, then get a job.

Put me in charge of the NHS. The first thing I'd do is to get women to have birth control implants.

Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce, use drugs, drink alcohol or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of local authority housing. Ever live in military barracks?

You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair.

Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried.

If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

Put me in charge of compulsory job search. You will either search for employment each week no matter what the job or you will report for community work.

This may be clearing the roadways and open spaces of rubbish, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you.

We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tyres and your dooff dooff stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realise that all of the above is voluntary.

If you want our hard earned cash and housing assistance, accept our rules.

Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin someone’s "self esteem", consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards those for continuing to make bad choices.

AND while you are on benefit income you no longer have the right to VOTE!

For you to vote would be a conflict of interest..... If you want to vote, then get a job.

Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON... BRING ON THE REVOLUTION

What a fantastic post! I second it!

In Lewisham Borough l had a shop, the Borough Council asked shop owners to accept vouchers for cash from foriegn folk for services cos they knew cash given to immigrants was not buying food. I said NO. The jewelers next door had a Polish guy go in and pick out some expensive jewelry. On payment he produced a pile of food cash vouchers.

Back in the UK, I had a friend who was the manager of the local 'Currys' store (Electrical stuff). One day, a Pakistani gentleman called in and produced a voucher from the DHSS, allowing him to buy a cooker.

The Pakistani genleman refused a cooker, but chose a nice TV and Hi-Fi and insisted that my mate had to take the voucher in payment.

My mate called the DHSS, and they told him to tear up the voucher.

Pakistani gentleman was not happy.

Put YOU in charge? I wouldn't put you in charge of the toilet!

This reminds me of the time that windbag Mathew Parris tried to live on the dole for a week back in the 80s. Of course he couldn't manage it but at least he could walk out at the end of the week and go back to his job as an MP unlike the people he was patronising.

This reminds me of the time that windbag Mathew Parris tried to live on the dole for a week back in the 80s. Of course he couldn't manage it but at least he could walk out at the end of the week and go back to his job as an MP unlike the people he was patronising.

I remember it well,thought he'd done something special just surviving the week out,and no empathy for the people who had to live exist on that kind of money,with very little chance to get out of it.

At todays rate of MPs Salary,he would be walking back to a starvation wage of £65,000. plus plenty of Directorships.