In the UK if you work hard you have to pay for everything and tax so that those that dont want to work get given a life paid for by everyone else.
This is rediculous and if Gordon brown thinks that by paying for broadband and a laptop for 270,000 will mean they then go out and get work or give something back to society i doubt it very much. Some will be sold, some will be trashed, some will be stolen, some will end up messed up because of software and hardware abuse.
Gordon Brown is just bribing voters !!
Wait a mo...whyt not give them all Nintendo Wii's too then they can do keep fit at home and browse the net with them.
mind you they will need a break from all that activity..why not a holiday too... I mean they got scrappage deals paid for by the taxpayer, why not give them a car, three piece suite, 42" TV, sat TV...
I think I will give up work!!