Rogue trader rogues

[gensetsteve]

A valid point has been made here, benefit fraud and benefit fraud are two entirely different things. My daughter has been diagnosed with Aspergers and it would not be too difficult for me to get a new car out of the system. I wouldn't be comitting a crime as such but I sure as hell would be defrauding the state in my eyes.

 

Unfortunately there are more people than you could possibly imagine who are 'entitled' to benefits but who don't share my repulsion at claiming when you're not in genuine dire need of state support. There is no 'right' to a nice big flat, new cars, sky TV, mobile phones etc, but millions of people who, if benefits were awarded following a face to face interview with someone with a modicum of common sense and ordinary decency would not stand a chance of getting them, are getting all these things funded by the state, perfectly 'legally'.

 

The TV bloke comitted fraud. But as rightly pointed out, his crime is not the biggest problem. It's the things which aren't actually crimes committed by people like Jimmy Carr who stretch the limits of what is right who are the biggest drain on the economy.

 

I would dispute that any MP's are in the same tax scheme thought, or even type of tax scheme, as Jimmy Carr, if they were we sure as hell would have heard about it A LONG time ago, probably through the News of The World. I was not however at all surprised to find that those who came out in defence of Jimmy Carr were other 'socialist heros', Labour MP's and 'ordinary working class people'..... are they setting themselves up to take advantage of the system again if Labour manage to get back in? I suspect that to be exactly the case. Keep taxing the middle classes more and more heavily so that Napoleon the pig and his friends can have their cake, and everyone else's, and eat it.

 

Snouts in the trough boys, especially the ones you would least imagine.... be wary. The funniest humour is based on your own experiences. How did it take us so long to find that Jimmy loved money so much...?

 

Agreed and you put it better than me. I feel there should be a welfare state to help able bodied people short term. People with disabilitys long term. Its not there for people to avoid work because they are 'stressed' you dont need a new all expences paid car to get you to weatherspoons and the bookies. Layzyness is going to kill the welfare state for everyone and fattys are going to kill the nhs.

[Peter]

Actually healthy people cost the NHS the most. There was a study published recently that looked at 3 groups, smokers, obese, and normal healthy people.

 

Up to the age of 56 the obese cost the most, but over their whole lifetime the healthy group lived longer and needed expensive care for dementia and generally being old and infirm, whereas the smokers and the obese had all died.

[Wolfie]

PeteB for prime minister!

No, PeteB for Dictator! ( nothing wrong with a good dictatorship)

[cannonball]

These are the people who make their living setting up people to make them look as bad as possible.

 

Presenter admits benefit fraud - Yahoo! TV UK

 

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Rogue trader uncovered on TV is jailed (From Oxford Mail)

 

this guy has been caught out round my neck of the woods at least

 

Stories like this do make people more aware.

[likeitorlumpit]

Interesting though

Looking at the guy- could you say instinctively he was a badun?