Those of you old enough may recall Reagan referring to “welfare queens,” people (stereotypically single mothers) who’d rather milk the welfare system than get a real job. Those old enough to recall may also recall that politcal opponants of Reagan basically considered him a liar on this subject.
Then there’s this out of Britain:
A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 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.
She’s not a welfare queen… she’s a freakin’ welfare EMPRESS. And who the hell could blame her? She’s pulling down Rich Folk income and living in Rich Folk circumstances for doign nothing more than having kids.
‘The house is lovely and very big, but I don’t have enough furniture to fill it.’
At some point, people have to ask themselves “Do those who do not contribute get to live a better quality of life than those who do, at the expense of those who do?” At some point, when enough parasites are sucking the lifeblood out of those who work and pay, the system will collapse. Hell, I’m damned close myself to leaching onto the welfare system, just to see what I can get. And if I *can* draw something useful out of it (a prospect I highly doubt, as I don’t fit the politically correct bill), it will be my recommendation that *everyone* do so. If you can, quit your job for a year or two. Live frugal, but latch onto all the government bennies. Collapse the system under its own weight. if a million or more current high income earners – and consequently, high tax payers – were to suddenly Go On Strike, especially if they themselves started pulling funds out of the welfare system… the damage this could do to the government could be catastrophic.
If I was in Britain, there’d be little doubt that I’d be doing precisely this.
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It’s called the Cloward-Piven Strategy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
> It’s called the Cloward-Piven Strategy
Hmm. My strategy and theirs do very similar things, but with entirely opposite ends. Of course, their strategy would have those who are already not positive contributors to society becoming greater parasites, while mine would turn contributors into parasites.
We can see this working in California, where a vast army of parasites, from welfare recipients to government employees, are looking at the state in financial crisis… and are demanding that the taxpayers give them even more money.
I suspect this woman and the practices described may trigger a public consideration of reversion to a “Britain for the British” mindset.
Cloward and Piven were classic activists: concentrating on one goal with no obvious comprehension that there might be impact outside the world they defined in their paper. The two appear to have a limited understanding of how the average wage-earner might react.