Stop wars not benefit fraud

antrim | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis

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.

The government hands over billions of £ of taxpayers money to a few privately owned multinational arms dealer companies, for lucrative weapons contracts, just because their buisness associates and financers own shares in these companies and have vested interests in making profits through selling arms for war.
Corruption and fraud on a monumental scale.

Ordinary taxpayers will never reap the benefits of revenue from oil acquired in Iraq, and the profits will never trickle down to us.

Taxpayers money was used to pay for this war, but a few privately owned arms dealer companies are the only ones who will reap the rewards in terms of lucrative Iraqi contracts and revenue from oil acquired in Iraq.

The truth is benefit fraud accounts for less than 1% of the total amount of taxpayers money squandered through inter governmental department beaurocrasy, and big buisness fraud and corruption.

If we look at Government run companies such as Enterprise Ulster/LEDU who hand over billions of £ of taxpayers money to fund fly by night fraudulent, corrupt buisness ventures, such as in the past the Dolorean project, and others.

In the late 1990's at the start of the New deal boom, the government handed over a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers money to a privately run training company to allegedly train, single parents, none of the single parents recieved the resources, facilities or training equivalent to this funding. Instead the privately run, profit making company, pocketed the money for themselves, and gave the single parents the bare minimum, if no training at all, this company is now under investigation for fraud.

Benefit fraud is a drop in the ocean, compared with the billions of pounds worth of fraud and corruption by the professional buisness classes.