Them and US

"I am for the Declaration of Independence; he is for the writing of Saul Alinsky. I am for the Constitution; he is for European socialism" is the current rallying cry of would be Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Its a call that's apparently fallen on deaf ears, as he has seemingly just lost Nevada's Republican caucuses, and following the loss of Florida, will surely cause him to stand aside from the race soon. He has to win Texas, or he's finished.

However his claim that 'arch right winger' Mitt Romney is a secret 'European Socialist', whilst risible by any European politicians definition of 'Socialist' (Even Pres. Obama would be at best 'centre right' and mostly 'right-wing' by European standards'), is worthy of a small examination.

If 'Europe' is now the dirty word in American politics, then lets look a some of the principle policies that separate us from each other ....

The Things That Divide Them From U.S.

I guess it depends on which 'Europe' the US commentators are looking at .... Oddly, the US system of restricted health provision is far more expensive than the near 'universal' European models. The US pays 17.4% of GDP for a health system that leaves millions with minimal health coverage, while the near universal European health care model costs an average of about 10 - 11% of GDP.   

You would think that the Republicans would welcome adopting a health system that covered everyone, and was vastly cheaper to pay for, a 'win win option' for them in the elections, but then who ever said that logic has anything to do with politics?

Love on The Dole

In a story that displays everything that’s wrong in the Welfare benefits system in the UK, the BBC has run a post about the proposed cap on the amount of benefits a family can receive. I can only assume that the BBC picked this particular family of unemployed husband and wife and their seven kids living in north Wales, so that we workers can feel sorry for them.

He was an I.T. programmer who found that work in his ‘specialised field’ dried up, and he stopped work 10 yrs ago – he apparently didn't feel the urge or need to retrain or branch out into other programming fields. Frankly any programmer worth their salt could have found contract work easily up until a couple of years or so …. There are I.T. contractors working at my office now.

This man and his families current benefit level is £30,284.80 pa net (US $47,943.87 pa) .... and he justifies his benefit levels and the expenditure it supports as follows:

• Pubs - 'I go out once a week, on a Friday night. I meet up with my mates in the pub and have three or four pints'... most married men can only do the same.
• Satellite TV - 'We get the Sky Movies package because we're stuck in the house all week - otherwise we wouldn't have any entertainment.' – Freeview TV is not good enough for a man who hasn't worked for a decade
• The family all have mobile phones - 'My wife and I have mobile phones, and so do all of the teenage children. You try telling teenagers they're going to have to do without their mobiles and there'll be hell to pay.' – noticeably he doesn't need one to look for work.
• Cigarettes and Alcohol – His weekly household shop includes 24 cans of lager, 200 cigarettes and a large pouch of tobacco - ‘On the cigarettes, my wife tried to give up, but she missed one appointment on the course and they threw her off it.' – he apparently has never tried to give up, but then he needs his beer and cigarettes to sit and watch his satellite TV package when he’s not going to the pub.
• Life in North Wales - 'this is social housing in Wales, so the rent is hardly massive. If we rented privately in this area, then the cost would be four or five times as much.' – meaning he has a house which is subsidised already and for which the government pays the rent.

North Wales - There are worse places to be.

He goes to bed and gets up as he wishes – he has no worries over having a roof over his head, he has no issues about commuting to work every day, or losing his job, or where the next mortgage (rent) payment is coming from. In fact his only concern is that by capping his benefits he may have to give up his 24 cans of beer, his Sky movie package, his cigarettes, or his Mobile phones.

We have posted on this benefit trap once or twice before, and in one of those posts we highlighted the case of a woman who while not working and apparently medically disabled, was having children with different men, and who considered that ‘the state is my breadwinner’.

This lifestyle is so attractive, that millions in the UK apparently aspire to it – family and security with no worries … indeed many people in the EU and elsewhere in the world share this same aspiration, which is maybe why getting into to the UK and on to the benefits gravy train, is such a popular pastime at Heathrow and other entry points in the UK. As a government minister recently said “Importing economic dependency on the state is unacceptable”.

In the meantime the political cronies of the Labour and Liberal Parties in the House of Lords (there are no real lords there anymore), have voted consistently to ensure that there is no adequate cap on benefit payments, despite the obvious public appetite to stop this gravy train.

Many of us would suggest that the limit of £26,000 (US $41,160.60) is still far, far, too generous, and with way too many exemptions on even that amount. A limit of closer to £20,000 net pa (which would still be very generous), would be more likely to encourage the idle to return to work, and prevent people like this man from drifting into to the comfort zone of a supported lifestyle that most can only aspire to, and that couldn't reasonably be attained by normal work.

There is something very rotten in the state of the UK (or Denmark if they are stupid enough to be as generous), when it’s benefit culture and the lifestyle that it can support, props up so many who require so much and who return so little.

Animals On Parade

Ralph Moat, the chav gunman was buried last week and guess what, the white trash of the UK turned up to praise him as a 'legend' ... why is anyone surprised?

We spend 50 yrs of 'Socialism', creating council estates where *80 % have never worked, and who live off welfare benefits, with prostitution, theft, shoplifting, and drug dealing, as the preferred methods of benefit supplements, and then you end up with the sort of inbred retards, who consider murderers 'legends'.

The stupid cow who said this was unemployed mother of eight Theresa Bystram, 45, who took three of her chav brood on a 300-mile coach trip, so they could 'pay homage' at his graveside.

She said: "Raoul was a legend, a hero. I absolutely loved him. I never met him but we followed his plight and prayed he wouldn't get caught. We're not related but something in my head told me to come today. I'm glad I did. He kept them coppers on the run all that time. Fair enough, people died. But they must have deserved it."

We have to break up the benefit dependency culture in the UK before we end up with a sizeable population of those claiming benefits being fit people, who just are bone idle, stupid, and menace to our very society.

Where else but the UK could this useless woman, breed and get paid for it?

1. The first step is to stop the free house syndrome, where girls just get pregnant to get a guaranteed house ..... Bystram would never have got going on her breeding programme if not for this stupid welfare rule. This would go a long way to stopping teen pregnancies in the UK, which are the highest in Europe.
2. Then bring in 'work fare' for all non incapacity benefits
3. And finally, slash the numbers who are classified as 'disabled, or sick' - at least 50% of them are either reasonably fit, or wholly fit (I used to administer these benefits decades ago and they were a joke even in the late 70's)

Feral Street Gang, in Uniform, waiting for a crime.

Until we do, this underclass will thrive like cockroaches in the sewers of our society until they finally take over whats left. No wonder our best and brightest emigrate to countries where these 'untermensch' are not given state aid to proliferate.

*In the early 1970's about 65 -70% of council tenants worked, I had friends who lived on these estates and whose parents worked, now I'll bet its nearer 85% on most estates who have never worked .... that has to be wrong, and its why the UK is falling apart at the seams.