Re:UK government invests in Sabre air-breathing rocket engine
by voicereason on Thursday July 18, 2013 @01:30PM
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I should have remembered how Reddit this place has become.
No idea what you mean by 1. I, along with about 50% of the UK is not a socialist.
> The vast (vast) majority of people claiming benefits are hard working people who do 40 hour weeks but still don't earn enough to support their family, so they claim Working Tax Credits.
Somehow they still seem to manage to afford the big flat screen TV, iPhone, xBox etc though don't they. Funny that...
Re:UK government invests in Sabre air-breathing rocket engine
by northernmonkey on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:42PM
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> Somehow they still seem to manage to afford the big flat screen TV, iPhone, xBox etc though don't they. Funny that...
You're not serious? Are you?
2. There aren't enough "welfare claimants" in this country to really have a big influence on anything themselves. The vast (vast) majority of people claiming benefits are hard working people who do 40 hour weeks but still don't earn enough to support their family, so they claim Working Tax Credits. This was Thatcher's doing, by the way.