Posted on 08/18/2012 12:40:31 PM PDT by george76
This is just a sample of what is going on in the UK. It is a sinking, stinking ship going down.
Ten families in England are sharing an astonishing £1million a year in housing benefits, it emerged last night.
The huge sums being lavished on the families by the taxpayer are allowing them to live in streets normally reserved for millionaires.
Five of the families are receiving the maximum payment of £2,000 per week.
It is the first proof that George Osborne was correct when he claimed some households were receiving sums in excess of £100,000 a year.[snip]
Toorpakai Saiedi, a jobless Afghan immigrant with seven children, had rent of £2,875 per week on a large house in Acton, West London, paid by Ealing Council. The total benefits bill was £170,000 a year.
Outrage at the 2008 case led to Labour introducing the £2,000 per week limit.
In another case, Abdi Nur, along with his wife and their seven children, was given a £2.1million townhouse at the expense of the taxpayer. The 42-year-old, from Somalia, moved into the three-storey property in Notting Hill after he objected to the ‘poor’ area of North-West London they were living in.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351537/The-10-families-costing-1m-state-handouts.html
It isn't a stretch to believe the things in the Washington Times article. Not at all.
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Did the school have to get your parents’ permission for the visits? I only ask because my parents would have had a fit if my school had had me and my siblings visit the places of worship of religions other than our own without their express permission, which in most cases, especially a non-Christian religion, they wouldn’t have given. We could of course learn about “world religions” in an academic, removed way.
My parents would have really pitched a fit if any teacher had tried to force us to bow the knee to Allah or any god other than the God of the Christian Bible. But no school in my day would have ever tried to do such a thing. Which tells you how long since I’ve been in school :)
From my reading, the Daily Mail does rather seem like the British version of World Net Daily.
Not so much permission, as in signing a slip, but our parents knew we were going on a field trip, where we were going, the times etc. It was only one ‘field trip’ a year if memory serves.
The three Christian churches were all in close proximity to the school anyway, it was actually hardly a field trip. And we walked 10 mins to the Sikh ‘temple’, again hardly a real field trip.
And no we didnt pray or anything like that. We might have been shown ways of praying and copied them as the man showed us. Mostly we stood or sat and listened.
I sure as heck can’t think of one.
I can.
The pseudo-religion of Lieberalism.
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