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Stop wars not benefit fraud
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Friday April 01, 2005 10:49 by Government lies and corruption
Benefit fraud hardly makes a ripple in the ocean, compared with our Government wasting billions of taxpayers money on pointless wars. Ordinary taxpayers will never reap the benefits of revenue from oil acquired in Iraq, and the profits will never trickle down to us. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Why not stop both? You can't excuplate a criminal by pointing to the worse criminal standing beside him.
I never thought of it that way.
Benefit fraud is OK because you disagree with the war in Iraq.
Does that mean the war in Iraq is OK because I think what Hitler did the Jews was worse?
The real criminals are the professionals/buisness classes, never trust the rich.
Sounds like a dole office occupation...
http://www.peanuts4benefits.co.uk/INDEX%20EVENTS.html
People commiting benefit fraud are in their own way registering their disgust at the much greater corruption present in our society.
No they're not - they're stealing from ordinary working people actually. I've never met a single welfare scrounger who was trying to make a political point.
you gotta admire anyone who engages in an act that financial benefits them and claims they're "making a larger political point"
If they took the money and gave to a anarchist collective, or charity, and survived on alternative sources, or if the benefit fraudster was using the cash to help them survive while on a long term political action (ie glen of the downs) then I would, maybe agree with the article, but not if a scrounger spent it on themselves.