A Sticky situation housing benefit for the under 25's

A Sticky situation housing benefit for the under 25's 

As part of the conservative parties efforts to sort out the national debt they have decided to wield their axes and start hacking at our heavily bloated welfare state, one of their new proposals it to get rid of housing benefits for under 25's.  As a conservative myself I initially thought this was a fantastic idea why should the under 25's receive housing benefit anyway?  They can just live with their parents, in my opinion it seemed like a great idea why should people who fail and leave school just get a free house while other young people like myself who stay in education or get a job don't receive such benefits. 

There are numerous reasons why in a perfect world young people under the age of 25 don't need housing benefit for example why should the state look after you if all you have done is attended school and then left and never got a job but go yourself a nice free house, why can't these people just get jobs like most people and rent a flat with their mates I know loads of people who have done this or maybe just maybe they could stay at home with their parent till they can afford to rent a property. There are many other reason why in a perfect world young people don't need a housing benefit. 

But this is not a perfect world and these are difficult times and after reading blog after blog,tweet after tweet and various newspaper articles from the left and the right I have had to come to terms with the fact that this is not a perfect policy. The main and best argument one which I struggle to think of a put down for is housing is expensive to rent or buy for many young people it is far to expensive even with a job which most people on housing benefit do not have, one solution to the expense problem is share a flat with mates or just rent a room well nearly all these people don't have a job so this is not an option for them and it difficult for them to get a job as most did poor at school and even those who did good will read job advert after job advert saying "experience needed" experience which interestingly enough school leavers don't actually have.  Now the response to this well the response I would give is fine if you don't have a job and can't have your own house or flat or even room just live with your parents.  Well as it have been pointed out to me on numerous occasions I have a very good relationship with every member of my family but that is not the case for everyone and moving in with parents or even another family member is not possible and some families simply don't have room for an adult child to live at home.  Now you can argue and I often do people who can't look after children are the main courses use of all our intercity problems and they just should not have kids, and in a perfect world they would realize this an not have children  but as stated earlier the is a far from perfect world and many births are not planned and many which are, are not properly planed so no matter your opinion these children who are not bad people they are just born into difficult circumstances may end up on the streets if we remove their housing benefit and no one wants a homeless problem on our hands.  

I do think the welfare state is to big and we do need to shrink it, I also think most people under 25 don't need housing benefit but we do need some sort of support maybe some sort of free hostel/ halls of residence for young people who do need the benefit so when we do axe the housing benefit for under 25's those who need support have it available to them. But our welfare system is bordering on the morbidly obese and in some areas of society people feel they don't need to take responsibility for their actions anymore because if a 15 year old get pregnant they will get a free house rather than having to make the tough decision on keeping the baby or put it up for adoption or even the most difficult option of them all an abortion, and there is no need in this day and age for young girls to get pregnant unless they want to (except for cases of rape of course) with the vast amounts of contraception available to them, but lucky for them the state is willing to support their every need if they do chose not to take responsibility for their actions.  Other people chose not to work as a lifestyle choice and this is unacceptable, it is not just a catchphrase Britain is Broken both it's society and it's economy and the morbidly obese welfare state is a cause of both these problems.  And until the welfare state is cut back to just a system which encourages people to work hard and get a job Britain will remain broken.