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Originally Posted by Robbie
Problem is that it drives up the cost of EVERYTHING. Including food.
Everything that has to be transported from point A to point B. Which hurts the poor and people barely getting by the most.
It's not all just about you and I getting in our car and driving. It's about food, clothing, building supplies, household staples, etc.
Basically driving up the cost of everything our society uses and helping to destroy our economy.
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The fix for the Western economies will cost you more. Maybe in food prices, less income and higher taxes.
The constant theme I see from these posts is.
LET SOMEONE ELSE SUFFER.
Imported oil is cheap at the pump. Imported goods are cheap at the point of sale. Outsourced labour is cheaper than home based labour.
Investing in future technologies will cost money, some will work some will not.
Keeping people working in the US will cost money.
No one tells the voters the truth. Until the pain is being inflicted. In fact some bring up red herrings.
The Right's target is those who sponge off the system and they should be made to work. It will cut Government spending by such a tiny amount it wont amount to taxing the rich proportionately as others pay.
Things like this make my blood boil.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-dont-job.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...taxpayers.html
Yet let's get it into perspective.
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/frau.../benefit-fraud
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Benefit fraud is estimated to cost the UK £1.5 billion a year according to figures published in the National Fraud Indicator 2011 by the National Fraud Authority.
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$2.25 even if you multiply it by 10. It's still peanuts against the size of the problem and even though it should be stopped. It won't rescue the system. And the only way to stop it is to employ more people to administer the system. My solution would be to get those genuinely claiming to work at reporting those cheating or working in the offices checking paperwork.
I tried to search for the US figures, didn't find anything. That is shameful and needs to be changed. But don't expect it to make and difference to your lives. Can someone here talking about it tell us please.