Benefits

Watching TV I saw a chap talking about benefits, he was relating them to the USA, he said that all people on benefit should spend 30 hours a week earning their benefit, well I have to say many who are out of work are desperately looking and applying for work, work that is not there, you cant force people to work, if you insist that they do 30 hours a week at some menial task that has no benefit for the person carrying it out all you will do is smash their self esteem, what is the point of that?, yes there are some that abuse the system, why have they not been caught, because they know how to twist the system to their advantage, these are not your normal man/women on the street they are benefit knowledgeable, they know just what they can and can't get away with, your ordinary person has no idea as to what they can get in many instances get nothing, if the new benefit rules are fair just tell me why the food banks are overwhelmed, 100's more have been set up all over the country, I feel ashamed I never thought we as a nation would treat needy people with total disregard, it is sad that people in work can be so callous and see these people who through no fault of their own find themselves unemployed, what people in work should remember is that they just might be out of work in the future so do not slap people who are down on their uppers they can't help it, they do not need to be attacked from all directions but need some understanding, the government have made a pigs ear over the benefit system as they have the NHS, it might be better to admit this mistake before the next election because these people might just bite their bum's!!.