And the circus continues

OK I accept that there are people in the world who would do anything not to work and bleed our country dry. Personally I would much rather be out at work earning my own money and being able to live the life I am used to. However at the moment I have no choice and I have to live by the rules of this wonderful welfare state.

So imagine my joy this morning when dropping my sick certificate in to said offices to be advised that I will probably have to have a medical to confirm I am sick. Wonderful! even more joyous is the fact that the other benefit I am claiming also demands a probable medical. Now hear me out on this two benefits one welfare office  surely they could do just the one medical if they really don't believe, a doctor and physio and a pain consultant. I mean you have to be pretty clever to convince 3 different specialists of your condition and maintain the same injury for Er 22 years. But what gets me the most is the fact they need to separate medical to prove this fact one for benefit to say I am unfit to work until its sorted and one to prove I am ill in the 1st place. Call me thick, but I see this as a massive waste of time, money and resources to duplicate the same procedure for a different piece of paperwork regarding the same matter. Either I am ill enough to gain the benefit or not. Its not as if I am asking for the world just enough to scrape by and contribute to the petrol and parking bill my mother is occurring due to my endless hospital, doctor and dentist visits. And yes dentist is a direct result of my illness as it has stripped the enamel on my teeth. As most of my friends will tell you I have the ability to break a tooth at the most inconvenient of moments, normally when I am out, abroad, on Christmas day you name it, I have done it. I am missing many teeth as they just crumbled away and half of what is left is plastic.

I know technically I get free dental at present, but they don't replace a plate where the teeth are missing and thank you illness I have managed to change the jaw shape so my old set don't even resemble the shape of my mouth now. But no I have to find the £200 for that. How people get rich on benefit I will never know I can't even break even by being good and playing it by the rules. I know welfare isn't meant to be comfortable to live on, but surely it should cover the day to day costs so a person can get better so they can return to work. Heck I have worked since I was 15 years old and paid in every penny I am meant to and I am being treated worse than some one new to the country. Explain to me how this is fair. I don't begrudge the old and the ill getting help to live they have usually paid into the system all their viable working lives. I object in being treated like I am lying till proven otherwise, that I am putting myself through this for the fun of not wanting to work. Trust me I am not I would rather be out there making more money in a week than I can get for a month of the system, and having the pride of earning it to boot.

Talk about circus trust me the logic we use to run this countries welfare is lower than circus clowns.