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Thread ID: 90243 2008-05-27 20:49:00 'Sickness' beneficiaries somebody (208) PC World Chat
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673194 2008-05-27 20:49:00 www.stuff.co.nz

Thoughts, comments?
somebody (208)
673195 2008-05-27 21:24:00 This is old news. The unemployment statistics are artificially low because a lot more people are on sickness benefits and do not show as unemployed.

Usual election year journalism, I suppose.

I wonder if there are any NZ doctors working in Belgium? I wonder of they would be tossers enough to whine to the Belgian press about Belgium's policies after working there for a couple of years...?
Deane F (8204)
673196 2008-05-27 22:15:00 So some people have tried it on............how is the doctor bullied? He can just say, sorry, you're fit and well. pctek (84)
673197 2008-05-27 22:22:00 Maybe the pricks in parliment should get a check up to see it they are fit enough to run the country? Now that would be interesting....

Most bludgers I know are earning money under the table...
rob_on_guitar (4196)
673198 2008-05-27 22:44:00 So some people have tried it on............how is the doctor bullied? He can just say, sorry, you're fit and well.

I tend to agree - doctors are professionals. They have a professional responsibility to give an honest and unfavoured opinion in a medico-legal situation such as the signing off of medical certificates.
Deane F (8204)
673199 2008-05-27 22:45:00 On the day he saw the asthma sufferer, he also saw a man whose leg had been amputated above the knee and who worked full-time, despite pain. Another woman continued to work after a stroke.

"They are paying taxes to sustain somebody with asthma smoking a packet of cigarettes a day. Many GPs have complained; it becomes a culture of handouts."

Now there's a bloody good man and a bloody good woman. NZ needs more of those kind of people.
ubergeek85 (131)
673200 2008-05-27 23:01:00 Maybe the pricks in parliment should get a check up to see it they are fit enough to run the country? Now that would be interesting....
They are already a bunch of losers - why make it worse? A good flogging until they get better may work though ;)
R2x1 (4628)
673201 2008-05-27 23:03:00 That's like flogging a big, fat, beaurocratic, dead horse... ubergeek85 (131)
673202 2008-05-27 23:15:00 That's like flogging a big, fat, beaurocratic, dead horse...


:lol:
rob_on_guitar (4196)
673203 2008-05-28 00:28:00 New Zealand must be the only country that considers that being a sickness beneficiary is an occupation.
For example Court Reports where the offender's occupation is given as "Sickness Beneficiary".
Some of these offending "Sickness Beneficiaries" show an amazing degree of strength, fitness and agility, if the court reports are anything to go by. For example - having to be pursued for a significant distance on foot by the Police - putting up a spirited fight against the arresting officer etc etc
KenESmith (6287)
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