£67.50 British pounds weekly equals 164 U.S. dollars.
1 posted on
01/04/2012 10:19:44 PM PST by
iowamark
To: iowamark
It doesn’t sound like much, but if you are getting free housing and health care..it goes a long way.
2 posted on
01/04/2012 10:28:00 PM PST by
Oldexpat
To: iowamark
When things hit the fan their necks a going to meet a fan. It’s called a mobile gullitione.
4 posted on
01/04/2012 10:34:09 PM PST by
TwoSwords
To: iowamark
It will be interesting to see how this works out.
My gut reaction is it will be “too little, too late” and some judge will order the government to resume the payments.
5 posted on
01/04/2012 10:39:26 PM PST by
Ronin
(If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
To: iowamark
Same thing would happen here I’m guessing.
7 posted on
01/04/2012 10:47:34 PM PST by
SoDak
To: iowamark
At that rate, I’ll take all the dollars you can send me!
9 posted on
01/04/2012 11:12:03 PM PST by
mardler
(Mr Market always wins)
To: iowamark
It took me a few moments to figure out the headline. Clever turn of phrase!
To: iowamark
We should try this here. Would get a lot of them off the rolls.
12 posted on
01/05/2012 12:54:29 AM PST by
dennisw
(A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
To: iowamark
Scroungers.....that’s what they call the welfare rip-off people over in the UK....lol
13 posted on
01/05/2012 12:56:04 AM PST by
dennisw
(A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
To: iowamark
Wow, what a surprise. Who could have seen that coming? I mean, if you give people money for doing nothing why would you think that many of them wouldn't work if given the chance?/SAR
The government in the UK acts so surprised that what conservatives have been saying for ever is true. If you give people money then soon you will have a non working class and more and more people will want to go on the dole. Why work when your money is going to pay someone else NOT to work?
I would be that more than half of the OWS crowd would not take a job if offered.
17 posted on
01/05/2012 1:51:41 AM PST by
calex59
To: iowamark
“Instead it demonstrates that there really is a hardcore who have no intention of working.”
We have GENERATIONS here in the US with the same goal in mind; their lots aren’t improving as funds dry up on their urban reservations.
To: iowamark
Another 30 per cent never turned up for community jobs and had their £67.50 weekly handouts axed. In the 90's when Rudy started "workfare" in NYC, about 300,000 of the then 1,000,000 welfare recipients in Fun City disappeared....over night!!
21 posted on
01/05/2012 4:57:02 AM PST by
Roccus
(The GOP is just the sandbox that conservatives are allowed to play in...............for now.)
To: iowamark
"Instead it demonstrates that there really is a hardcore who have no intention of working." Now there's a shocker.(/s)
The real crime is that the purge is not being instituted nationwide.
25 posted on
01/05/2012 6:58:26 AM PST by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
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