Jobseekers allowance...another way of our backward British government to make us all wonder what the point in saving actually is?

Sometimes i really wonder why so many people want to come to this country when us actual Britons are so shocked by the state of this badly run and badly thought out island that we're all considering just packing up and shipping out!

Due to the state of the current economy a lot of new graduates just like me are finding it seriously difficult to get a job, let alone even be considered for one, and therefore are having to turn to jobseekers allowance. Now despite the fact that we have to queue up with 'dole scum', i.e. people who happily live off the hard earned money of tax payers so that they can drink all day and not have to work at all (and this isn't just me being politically incorrect...me and my boyfriend saw them outside a Portsmouth job centre drinking cans of cider while waiting to go inside), the rewards of just an interview every two weeks showing that we are actually looking for jobs (and believe me i am) is actually not too bad...£50.94 a week. However, this is as long as you don't have more than £6,000 worth of savings...and definitely not if you have over £16,000 worth. Up until £6,000 you're safe as houses, you get the full amount - happy as larry...but the more savings you have the more allowance gets taken away from you...and if you have £16,000...well, don't even bother.

Now this really really angers me. Why should we be punished for saving our money for our futures? Why should we be forced to spend our hard earned money in situations like this when people who haven't bothered to save a penny...or to work for a living...get off scot free? The government should be rewarding people like me, and my parents, for putting a little aside every now and then for both their futures and mine...why should we be penalised when it comes to things that the government offer for people with no money? Why should we get nothing when they get everything? Yes OK you could argue that this is the reason that people like me have savings...but to me it's really not...if i can't get work i should be offered the exact same amount as the other people who can't get work...savings or no savings.

The government is always giving us tips on how to be frugal with our money and save for a rainy day...but some of us prefer to save for our old age, because god knows we're not going to get a pension any time soon. So what's the point? Why don't we just be frivolous and live off everyone else like a lot of people within this country do? I'll tell you why...because if we didn't have savings then those people wouldn't have homes, wouldn't have food...and wouldn't be able to spend their days drinking cider outside job centres. Quite frankly, i think it's disgusting.