work-shy

• “The name means "Let them talk", and was chosen in response to the men of the village calling the women work-shy and idle.”

  The Guardian: Mali: womens association

• “And taxpayers such as me, the diligent and industrious folk who, with our earnings, make life tolerable for the work-shy malingerers whose fortunes seem to concern you so much, would not be obliged to give away their hard-earned wealth to support such parasites!" replied Scrooge.”

  The Guardian: Work and pensions cuts take inspiration from Dickens

• “Where is the incentive to work hard , when government is handing out such large sums to the work-shy in society.”

  The Guardian: A welfare bill for people with straightforward lives | Julia Unwin

• “At most it should be £8000 for rent and then food and fuel vouchers only for long term work-shy.”

  The Guardian: A welfare bill for people with straightforward lives | Julia Unwin

• “In the past such folk would have had only a ghostly presence: evil, work-shy scroungers whom none of them actually knew, but who haunted their imaginations.”

  The Guardian: Simon Hoggart's sketch: Man with big vision fondles the faithful

• “Now they are on stage being applauded wildly for their efforts to stop themselves being evil, work-shy scroungers.”

  The Guardian: Simon Hoggart's sketch: Man with big vision fondles the faithful

• “And, if they're not doing that, the work-shy foreign piss-takers are taking advantage of our welfare system, claiming this, claiming the other… We know the drill.”

  The Guardian: Stop expecting immigrants to be superhuman | Barbara Ellen

• “Outrageous though their conduct is, the sums involved are not exactly large when set alongside the humungous sums of money being bunged at the Banks or at the work-shy or the NHS.”

  Let Us Destroy The Big State

• “When everyone is watching, the welfare state has funded entire generations of work-shy parasites; a criminal underclass who lie around on benefits while the country needs to import a million Poles to carry out basic jobs they should be doing. etc etc on January 22, 2010 at 5: 25 pm alex”

  Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “No surprise that German voters resent seeing the fruits of their labors eaten by retirement-loving, work-shy Greeks who partied while they sweated and saved.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Giving Up Sovereignty Is a High Price to Save a Currency U.K. Never Adopted

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