My Soapbox - Benefits & Scroungers: Every one's definition of 'scrounger' verses 'needy' is very different, and this definition changes as economics change. What worries me is this debate is beginning to look more like the making scape goats of people we don't like. The chronically obese are being attacked in the Daily Mail. The mentally ill and the chronic pain sufferers (your just a drug addict) are also attacked in the USA regularly in the right wing blogs. *