The Age Of Scammers?

As a layman in these matters, it seems that the politicians, businesses, corporations, newspapers and banks are screwing us all.

With news that Starbucks, Google and Amazon today are willing to make billions of pounds from us, yet dodge, however legally, corporation tax in the UK, but feel fine in taking the few pounds we have to spare, makes me feel sick.

Politicians recently were claiming all sorts of benefits (some illegally) and expecting people of the UK to survive on a ridiculously low income and accuse them of being scroungers. The banks were bleeding the citizens dry, got too greedy, screwed the economy and were bailed out by our taxes. Peoples houses were being repossessed but the bankers still got their huge pay and payouts. Surely, it would have been cheaper to let the banks go under and reimburse savers, and have a quicker recovery. Let the so called scroungers (that's you and me according to the Government) off with their payments? No way. They make us scroungers bail out the idiots who screwed us all and allowed them to reap the rewards for failure.

A comment a bit earlier in the year from George Osborne (UK Chancellor of the Exchequer) really boils my urine. He was referring to someone setting out for work in the morning and looking at their neighbours house and thinking about how that neighbour hadn't done a days work for years but was happy to live on benefits.

Well, that neighbour would probably love to work if the politicians had been busy representing the citizens of the country rather than looking after themselves. The neighbour in question is claiming benefits to help him survive and even just to pay his fuel bills and put food on the table. You know when the expenses list was published when MP's were claiming for extra houses, moats for duck ponds, etc., it was the ones claiming for a Kit Kat or a packet of biscuits that enraged me more. A large proportion of the UK workers are on a minimum wage, paying travel costs, treating themselves to a cup of coffee in the likes of Starbucks, and I wonder if there is any way for them to claim back a cup of coffee or two.

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