Sunday, October 26, 2008
Meanwhile - in the U.K.
It appears that the Brits have freeloading issues, too...
In the U.K. Daily Mail, Chris Brooke reports:
"It is a story which crystalises the dubious values encouraged by the British welfare state.
While hardworking Sean and Anne Tate scrimp to afford a few little luxuries for their ten children on his £15,000 lorry driver's salary, a family of the same size two miles away take things a little easier.
Harry Crompton, 50, has been out of work for 15 years and his wife Tracey, 40, has never had a job."