RE: Xenophobia?
February 22, 2013 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 8:31 pm by cratehorus.)
(February 22, 2013 at 11:06 am)Tiberius Wrote: Factually 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.
yes............ 2.1% is what i call ALMOST NONE especially since it INCLUDES ERROR................. besides cutting welfare won't decrease that percentage you will still be wasting or "giving away" 2.1%
Quote: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.
pointing out one story that's probably overhyped and based off 3 seconds of dialogue is tabloid bullshit, same bullshit that made cancelling welfare popular in America, the term welfare queens was popularized by reagan who lied about women with cadillacs and 16 welfare checks......... did it matter if those people actually existed of course not, because being a conservative politician is all about being the biggest dick
Quote:2) As you can see from the source above, the government does its own research into benefit fraud. Policy is based on that research.
the government also prevents fraud and giving more money to these programs is the best way to prevent fraud, cutting wlefare is a blatant attampt at disenfrachinsing the poor, and using cowardly empty rhetoric to make the gullible (you) into agreeing with these ridiculous polcies
Quote: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).
well the people in your country who can't find work are just parasites anyway
