Freud: Poor should take more risks

I really wish the whole lot of these peers would waken up. The cost of living is very expensive now because of excessive inflation caused by EXCESSIVELY GREEDY BANKERS in the first place. Some of the poor people he refers to here have rights and once upon a time worked hard and paid into the system. Now, and through no fault of their own, they have to lean on it for support that comes with a hefty price tag, TUFF, we didn't create that. Didn't hear them refuse to take deductions from them at the time they were fleecing them. Don't hear them refusing to rob those they are fleecing now who are still lucky enough to be fit and healthy and capable of work. All I see is them trying to set one against another, workers against poor and disabled, while this tactic takes the focus away from themselves, the expenses thieves, the public purse abusers, the real crooks, the rich. Ask yourself the question, when is the last time a rich person done anything for you ? People waken up also and see what these smart asses are concocting and support your fellow man because you never know when or if you will be in the same boat some day. Learn that from the very moment any government turns on the poor and disabled that they are unfit for purpose and should be removed, permanently and never to rule again. Benefits monies which are paid out to claimants are used to live, not to have a lifestyle with for goodness sake, who could fund a lifestyle on all they give you, wise up. This money goes back into the system, and very quickly too. There aren't too many claimants saving vast amounts of money in these times, it's impossible. These funds do not belong to any of these smart asses, therefore not one of them have the right to tell people who have paid into the purse that they cannot have access to the use of the funds and especially when it is being used for the purpose of sustaining themselves and their families. Get rid of these tyrannists at the earliest convenience or live a life of misery, you choose.

So lets get this right an investment w**ker telling people to take risks......... Is that all bankers have to offer - take risks and gamble with every last penny?? How out of touch he and they are!

Lord Freud I hope you lose everything over this you are clearly not fit to govern or advise.

I'm a full time working mum who has never claimed benefits in her life, and to a certain extent I agree that individuals on benefits should not be entitled to "a life on the state" (except for genuine cases of course). However, I still find Lord Freud's comments patronising and insensitive. He is TOTALLY out of touch with reality. How can the poor take risks with what little they have? Surely when you consider risk v reward it is those who have MORE who can afford to take risks (as they would still have something left if the risk didn't pay off) - you can't take risks with what you haven't got!

"when you're up against someone who's an investment banker, who gets yelled at every day of his life," if not three times, by chief executives, finance directors and chairmen for one thing or another.

I can see this man has never been at the bottom of the workforce in any company where everybody in some form of management takes it out on you and your also the first to go with no handshke when the company has problems.
Time he retired ..on state benifits for a few years just to see what it`s really like

But surly this man is having a life style on the state. Can anyone tell me what if anything this man as done to desirve to be a Lord. This man is what is totaly wrong with the way government works in this country. And it's high time that people like him where removed from office thus ending his life of riley. His job is what could be discribed as being the top job of the benifits system. So I say sort it out from top to bottom. First the Qween, then the Lords. then the government ans so on and so on until we have a sound fairer country for all !!!!

The big change that is needed in the benefit system is that it should stop punishing a will to improve your life. If you rely on benefits, the first law is never do anything to help yourself, because if you do, you will lose benfit. Chnage the way it works so that benefit becomes a support, any effort the individual makes leaves them better off. As their independent income rises, the benefit should be gradually reduced, but always leaving the claimant better off.

I am sorry that the Lord was offended by Gordon Brown treating him in a demeaning way. Poor people don't mind that kind of thing, after all if you've got no money you really don't have anything worth losing do you.

Such arrogance!

A 'lifestyle on the state'? Not much of a lifestyle on less than £100 per week. Could he live on £14 per day? I think not. No woner people are sick i.e. disparate, cold, depressed and suffering from malnutrition. 'You don't have to be a corpse to go to a funeral', I agree and you don't have to be an idiot to know an idiot.

another toff a cut above everyone else, an arrogant prat the poor are fearful of risk because they have so little to live on and having a little is better than nothing if the government stopped spending money on idiots like him we could save a fortune. sure the system needs to be revised and overhauled to make it fairer to all concerned Freud's opinions and Ideas should not even be considered at any level after coming up with a statement like that get rid of him now. 300,000 people leave this country a year because of the state of our government and the corruption within , and the money squandered in Europe and the corruption there also. Cameron said the other day that Euro MPS AND STAFF get 70% of there salaries as a pension and the average person earns 100;000 per year.NOW there is a place to start cutting costs in fact get Britain out of EUROPE A S A P. and stop paying Non British contributors to our social welfare and health funds any benefits send them home as they giving nothing back to Britain it would save us billions.