Posted on 07/19/2007 2:55:20 PM PDT by brityank
We've been there for quite a while; the difference is the US has such a massive economic engine that it takes quite a while before the leaks in the system become incapacitating. Keep on keeping on, and we'll get there!
As fast as your immigrants and illegal aliens arriving?
Most immigrants are working - especially from european nations where the unemployment rate is I think I’m right in saying less than that of the nation as a whole.
As for illegals - I don’t know - I don’t think anyone does.
The majority of out immigration now a days is from the euro bloc - but there is little we can do about that apart from placing restrictions which is at least (at last) now happening.
The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. We are totally independent of Government. The NAO is headed by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourn.-- From the UK NAO website.
We audit the accounts of all central government departments and agencies, as well as a wide range of other public bodies, and report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which they have used public money. Our work saves the taxpayer millions of pounds every year.
Such a burden! Wonder what our numbers are here in the US?
That would be one way to decrease the number of people counted as non working
Typical liberal solution
I’m afraid there are many white people in UK also on the dole. This is the way the UK works. Socialism causes this. If they really want jobs, they go to college in america and marry an american when they finish.
The GAO has a bunch of reports to search: GAO Unemployment Search.
One of the had this to say:
The health of each state's UI program depends, in part, on their ability to control benefit payments by accurately determining eligibility for UI benefits in a timely manner. Labor's Office of Inspector General (OIG) and others have identified numerous aspects of the UI program that may be vulnerable to overpayments and fraud. Of the $30 billion in UI benefits paid in calendar year 2001, Labor estimates that this includes $2.4 billion in overpayments, including $560 million attributable to fraud or abuse. Labor's analysis also suggests that the states could have detected or recovered $1.3 billion of the total overpayments given their current policies and procedures. The management and operational practices at both the state and federal level contribute to overpayments in the UI program.All in all, not bad for 50+ bureaucracies.
Yep!
COOL !
Thanks for the clarification. I wondered how so many Brits had matriculated to the University of Kentucky.
Goes along with ‘you get more of what you pay for’ - pay people not to work and many won’t work. Pay people to have children, and many will have children.
That's a good part of the reason my Dad left his government job at the MPNI and brought the family here in 1958. Wonder where my kids will go to get away from the insidious socialist march?
What.
You want to raise the IQ in both places?
;^)
That’ll leave a mark.
Maybe so, but not that many English.
I love it. They call them “workless”, as if anyone in the family actually wanted to work. If they were called “lazy-assed bums”, it would draw a clearer picture.
Why work when others will support you?
Well, how else are they going to afford to sit around mosque all day and figure out new and interesting ways to blow up the Britons who are supporting their dole????
Sheesh. Get with the program! :)
Doh! What was I thinking!?
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