Philobeado
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Many of our leaders want to make America more like Europe. When President Obama was in Europe, he praised the social safety net that exists in almost all of Europe that doesn't exist in the United States."
Vice president Joe Biden called paying higher taxes "patriotic."
An article in today's UK Daily Mail illustrates how over time, welfare states begin to offer monstrous entitlements:
A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 [$125,000] a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb.
Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 a month in housing benefits to pay the rent on the five-bedroom villa just yards from Sir Paul McCartney's house and Lord's cricket ground.
She also receives an estimated £15,000 a year in other payouts, such as child benefit, to help look after her children, aged from five months to 14.
The four-storey house in Maida Vale has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double living room... two large flat-screen televisions ...
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Entitled to a Five-bedroom House John Stossel
Vice president Joe Biden called paying higher taxes "patriotic."
An article in today's UK Daily Mail illustrates how over time, welfare states begin to offer monstrous entitlements:
A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 [$125,000] a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb.
Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 a month in housing benefits to pay the rent on the five-bedroom villa just yards from Sir Paul McCartney's house and Lord's cricket ground.
She also receives an estimated £15,000 a year in other payouts, such as child benefit, to help look after her children, aged from five months to 14.
The four-storey house in Maida Vale has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double living room... two large flat-screen televisions ...
Cont. (read and weep)
![cuckoo :cuckoo: :cuckoo:](/styles/smilies/cuckoo.gif)
Entitled to a Five-bedroom House John Stossel