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Stop wars not benefit fraud
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worker & community struggles and protests |
opinion/analysis
 Friday April 01, 2005 10:49 by Government lies and corruption
Benefit fraud hardly makes a ripple in the ocean, compared with our Government wasting billions of taxpayers money on pointless wars.
The government hands over billions of £ of taxpayers money to a few privately owned multinational arms dealer companies, for lucrative weapons contracts, just because their buisness associates and financers own shares in these companies and have vested interests in making profits through selling arms for war.
Corruption and fraud on a monumental scale. Ordinary taxpayers will never reap the benefits of revenue from oil acquired in Iraq, and the profits will never trickle down to us.
Taxpayers money was used to pay for this war, but a few privately owned arms dealer companies are the only ones who will reap the rewards in terms of lucrative Iraqi contracts and revenue from oil acquired in Iraq.
The truth is benefit fraud accounts for less than 1% of the total amount of taxpayers money squandered through inter governmental department beaurocrasy, and big buisness fraud and corruption.
If we look at Government run companies such as Enterprise Ulster/LEDU who hand over billions of £ of taxpayers money to fund fly by night fraudulent, corrupt buisness ventures, such as in the past the Dolorean project, and others.
In the late 1990's at the start of the New deal boom, the government handed over a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers money to a privately run training company to allegedly train, single parents, none of the single parents recieved the resources, facilities or training equivalent to this funding. Instead the privately run, profit making company, pocketed the money for themselves, and gave the single parents the bare minimum, if no training at all, this company is now under investigation for fraud.
Benefit fraud is a drop in the ocean, compared with the billions of pounds worth of fraud and corruption by the professional buisness classes.
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Jump To Comment: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1you gotta admire anyone who engages in an act that financial benefits them and claims they're "making a larger political point"
If they took the money and gave to a anarchist collective, or charity, and survived on alternative sources, or if the benefit fraudster was using the cash to help them survive while on a long term political action (ie glen of the downs) then I would, maybe agree with the article, but not if a scrounger spent it on themselves.
No they're not - they're stealing from ordinary working people actually. I've never met a single welfare scrounger who was trying to make a political point.
People commiting benefit fraud are in their own way registering their disgust at the much greater corruption present in our society.
Sounds like a dole office occupation...
http://www.peanuts4benefits.co.uk/INDEX%20EVENTS.html
The real criminals are the professionals/buisness classes, never trust the rich.
I never thought of it that way.
Benefit fraud is OK because you disagree with the war in Iraq.
Does that mean the war in Iraq is OK because I think what Hitler did the Jews was worse?
Why not stop both? You can't excuplate a criminal by pointing to the worse criminal standing beside him.