Wednesday - January 18, 2012

A SOCIALIST PARADISE FOR ALL BUT THE TAXPAYER

There are a couple of rcob items I’d like to share.  Or maybe ‘like’ isn’t exactly the correct term here. 

Pick up any paper on any day, turn on radio news (TV too I guess) and someone is going to be speaking about the economy, the cuts being made and the many protests over cuts.  Unless you are personally affected the whole subject is probably a crashing bore.  But hold on.  Maybe not.  Because what makes the subject more then interesting to me, personally, is watching this nation and culture which I had long admired, tear itself apart and commit national suicide.  I do not like that at all.
I can forgive dumb mistakes because I make them all the time.  But what I am seeing is no mistake.  I’m no economist, I never managed to balance a check book. Not once in my many years. Maths was never my subject. But it doesn’t take rocket science to know when people have been led down a garden path and lied to.  And bad as the previous left wing Labour govt. was, I don’t see great strides being made by this
coalition govt., and I don’t see evidence of the Conservative promise to alter the squatting laws.  What I see is more of that and more spending outside the country while being told cuts must be made everywhere inside.  Cept those cuts do not include all members of the ruling class. 
Among the many cuts on tap is money for things like, national parks. In this case, the beautiful Dartmoor National Park.

Folks are angry because in order to cover the shortfall caused by the cuts, for the very first time, Dartmoor authorities are talking about parking charges. Now this is just one tiny example but added to everything else going on, it’s frustrating for the camel carrying all that straw. Speaking of straws.

IMF confirms plans to expand bailout fund to around $1 trillion, as French banks face write-downs on Greek debt.
And guess what?  Britain may be forced to give 15 BILLION to the IMF.  Pretty big straw that.

Unemployment is expected to reach new highs and it’s touted that by next year, they could be the highest since 1990.

No job?  What? Me worry?
Not the filthy foreign slag who is shown here.  Of course she’s happy.  The Brit taxpayer is spending over £27,000.00 on the NON English speaking bitch.
Let me convert that to American dollars.  Rounding things out, the mommy of four (don’t know where dad is or if there is one) that comes to $41,725.00 added to the txpayer’s payload, while cuts are being made in country. Foreign aid in the multiple millions continues.

The Big Issue is a newspaper for the homeless. And oh btw. Her lack of English sure didn’t stop her from getting legal help when she was first refused ADDITIONAL money.

Romanian Big Issue seller given legal right to claim housing benefit (on top of the £25,000 she already claims)

The mother-of-four currently claims £25,547.60 in benefits each year

That will rise by a minimum of £2,600 when she receives her additional housing allowance

By LUKE SALKELD

As a Romanian immigrant living in the UK, Big Issue seller Firuta Vasile already qualified for more than £25,500 a year in benefits.

But one state handout she wasn’t entitled to was housing benefit. Until now.

Yesterday the 27-year-old mother of four was celebrating having won the extra payout – worth at least £2,600 a year – after her local council was over-ruled by a judge.

Miss Vasile, whose marital status is unknown, said the benefits money would help her pay rent on her £130,000 three-bedroomed home, while she continues to earn around £100 a week selling copies of the homelessness magazine.

Housing benefit has previously been provided to Romanian citizens only if they fit into one of three categories. They must either be registered with the Home Office to work in specific sectors such as agriculture or construction, have highly skilled jobs, or be self-employed with a National Insurance number and tax registered.

Miss Vasile has persuaded officials that she should be considered as part of the third category because she uses her own money to buy copies of the magazine in the hope of selling them at a profit.

Speaking through an interpreter, Miss Vasile said she came to the UK in 2007 to look for work, but could find only a post selling The Big Issue in Bristol.

‘I can keep half of the money I take and I usually make around £100 per week,’ she said. ‘This isn’t enough to meet all my family’s needs so I asked the council for housing benefit to help with my rent. My claim was turned down.

‘I was told that because I am Romanian I could not get benefits unless I have a job or I am in self-employment. They said work for The Big Issue didn’t count. I got legal support and was helped with an appeal.’

Miss Vasile claims £25,547.60 annually in benefits. Every week she receives £326 in tax credits, £60.50 in child benefits, £49.30 in disability living allowance and £55.50 in carers’ allowance.

She would now be entitled to around £160 a week in housing benefit – although this will be reduced to around £50 due to her other income.

Unlike other European Union nationals, Romanians and Bulgarians are subject to strict employment rules in the UK because their countries were late entrants to the EU.

Their rights will be brought into line with other European member states at the end of next year.

Let me guess.  Ah .... gee this is a hard one.  Their RIGHTS translated means more money then allowed now.
Jackpot.  For them.

Miss Vasile, whose children are 11, seven, six and two, first applied for housing benefit from Bristol City Council on November 15, 2010. It was refused six days later.

A social security tribunal ruled that she should be paid the benefits because selling The Big Issue counted as self-employment.

But the city council appealed and the case was taken to an Upper Tribunal in London last year.

Judge Mark Rowland released his written judgment on January 10 and the council has said it would not appeal again.

Miss Vasile – who has one disabled child – was represented by welfare benefits adviser Andy King, of Avon and Bristol Law Centre.

He said: ‘This is a victory for people struggling to work to support their families. Anyone who thinks selling The Big Issue on a British street in winter is a soft option should have a go themselves.’

But Chris Grayling, minister for employment, said: ‘We disagree with the court’s decision.

‘We have to remain in line with our national and international obligations. However, it is absolutely necessary to protect the taxpayer and the benefit system from possible abuse.’

SEE ALL THE PHOTOS HERE

But the problem is, all these folks have to do is ..... show up here and .....  BINGO!

Meanwhile, there’s this possibility to contend with.
Take a serious look at this.

Would you want a clipboard- wielding jobsworth telling your parents it’s time to leave their home?
By BRENDA ALMOND

Elderly people have a hard enough time in modern Britain. The private pensions crisis, the scandal of neglect and abuse in the NHS, the erosion in the value of their savings and the crippling cost of care are all increasing problems for older generations at the very time in their lives when they are at their most vulnerable.

But now an insidious new source of pressure is looming on the horizon — the growing belief within the Government that private properties belonging to the elderly should be used as a solution to Britain’s chronic housing shortage.

Houses are no longer viewed as beloved homes, safe havens, and welcome private assets for hard-pressed families. Instead, they are to be regarded as a potential source of state-run accommodation, ripe for exploitation.

That is certainly the thinking behind the scheme outlined by Conservative Housing Minister Grant Shapps, which said that local councils should help the elderly downsize to smaller properties, with their homes then rented out to families on local waiting lists.

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Posted by peiper     on 01/18/2012 at 12:24 PM   
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