(February 21, 2013 at 8:37 pm)cratehorus Wrote: there is almost no welfare fraud existing in any country anywhereFactually untrue. The estimated value of overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011/2012 was £3.4 billion.
Source: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd2/in...raud_error
That figure does not cover people claiming on the NHS.
Quote:most immigrants contribute more to a country's economy than it's actual average citizen, the simple fact that your nation chooses to disparage an entirerace of people based on the headline/tabloid story of one vaccous individual just proves how inept and deceptive your government has become, maybe a fresh dip in the gene pool is exactly what you folks need.............1) I never said that our government makes decisions based on headlines / tabloid stories. Nor did I say I made my decision based on such stories. The only reason I mentioned it was because Rhythm said that welfare queens did not exist in his country. In our country, the existence of welfare queens is well known and documented in various media outlets.
2) As you can see from the source above, the government does its own research into benefit fraud. Policy is based on that research.
3) This is not about whether immigrants contribute more to a country's economy than its actual average citizen. This is about jobs being given to immigrants over actual citizens. This is always going to be a problem when the system is set up so that anyone in the EU can legally work anywhere in the EU. The people who live in less wealthy countries are going to move to more wealthy countries to find work, which takes jobs from the people who already live in those wealthy countries (and who are citizens of them).
