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Israel’s booming economy puts billions in US aid under spotlight

Israel’s economy is (supposedly) booming, while tens of millions of Americans are STILL out of work.

So why are these people still on the dole?

Israel’s booming economy puts billions in US aid under spotlight

By Martin Fletcher, Correspondent, NBC News

TEL AVIV, Israel — Boosted by newly discovered natural resources, Israel is surging ahead economically – a success that is pushing the issue of the country’s $3 billion in annual aid from the [...]

Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops

They’re on the dole – and watching the pole.

Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs – where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare [...]

Benefits rising twice as fast as salaries: Payments to unemployed jump by 20 % in five years (UK)

Jobseeker’s Allowance up 20 per cent from £59.15 a week in 2007/08 to £71
In the same five-year period wages only rose by 12 per cent
Iana Duncan Smith said the system is not fair on workers

 

 

Welfare handouts to those languishing on the dole have risen almost twice as fast as average wages over the past five years.

Out-of-work benefits have jumped in value by an astonishing 20 per cent since 2007 while [...]

Council tax benefit cut by AT LEAST 20% for the working aged on benefits (UK)

http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/new…-tax-1-4625416

So here we are starting to see the disturbing reality of the governments spending cuts as councils across the country begin to send the jobless further into poverty. Now we will begin to see just how many people really are on the dole as the torys again light the flame to civil unrest. Although I was a bit young when the poll tax riots kicked off here in the UK [...]

Prepare for What Is Coming: “There is a Very Present Danger that is Facing Every American”

Mac Slavo
August 9th, 2012
SHTFplan.com

 

 A warning from Charlie McGrath, founder of Wide Awake News:

“You are under assault. There is a very present danger that is facing every American citizen who listens to me right now. Every citizen of this planet who listens to me right now. You are under attack.

This is an assault on you, the American people. This is an assault on your intelligence and an assault on your freedom.

It’s about [...]

Don’t eat your greens! Bagged salad taken off shop shelves over fears of rare bug that can cause meningitis

Three lines of bagged salads has been taken off shop floors over fears they may be contaminated with listeria.

Dole Fresh Vegetables is recalling 1,077 bags sold at Kroger and Wal-Mart stores across six states, that customers may still have at home.

The warning affects bags of Kroger Fresh Selections Greener Supreme, Kroger Fresh Selections Leafy Romaine and Wal-Mart Marketside Leafy Romaine.

Withdrawn: One of the lines of Dole bagged salads that has [...]

UK: Get a job, [Work and Pensions Secretary] Iain Duncan Smith tells parents on the dole

Families will be told that they should work at least 35 hours a week, rather than rely on state handouts, if they want to avoid their children living in poverty.

 

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, will say that Labour’s strategy to spend more than £150 billion in extra benefit payments for poor families had failed to stop child poverty.

Figures to be published today are expected to show that [...]

HALF U.S. HOMES ON GOV’T DOLE

From WSJ:

49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011.

Cutting government spending is no easy task, and it’s made more complicated by recentCensus Bureau data showing that nearly half of the people in the U.S. live in a household that receives at least one government benefit, and many likely received more than one.

The 49.1% [...]

The man who gave up money: 21st century caveman who has lived without cash for 12 years, forages for food and bathes in creeks

Daniel Suelo, 51, left his last $30 in a phone box and walked away
Friend who wrote his biography, said: ‘I first assumed he’d gone crazy’
Suelo eats roadkill, hunts in dumpsters and relies on generosity
Pays no taxes and accepts no help from the Government

Footage has revealed the sparse and yet contented life of Daniel Suelo – the man who has chosen to live without money for the past 12 years.

Suelo, now [...]

The man who swore to halve the deficit in his first term has us $6 trillion deeper in debt

 

This President bought vehicles on the taxpayers buck to parade around campaigning. We all know about Obama’s $4 million vacations,his wife and daughters shopping spree on the taxpayer’s back,his wife’s trip to Africa and just recently his daughters trip. The list is long as was “date night” in N.Y.C. and then there are all the parties at the White House for movie stars,celebrities,anyone Obama gets money from and their vote.

The [...]