Yeah, this story isn't totally fake and designed to stir up conservative Brits.

She sure seems to be making good money (as an actress who will hire herself out to The Sun to falsify a story in order to validate one of Murdoch's favourite faux bugbears "Immigrants Steal Benefit Money!".

Natalia Belova

The Sun lie? Say it ain't so!

Story is fake or embellished. Yes, you can live in the UK on benefits and not lift a finger and the Sun and Daily Mail will always have stories of one person who gets a luxury house or flat, but the vast majority of people will live in a council flat or mid terrace two bedrooms short of what they should be and they will eat Tesco value chips and the sausages that are only 51% actual meat. Just barely scraping by.
So she is obviously doing a job where she doesnt have to report the income to the government. And a "holiday" can be a mid week, three day trip on a Ryan air flight that costs £30 and hotel or bed and breakfast that costs the same. Eat the same chips and sausage and you have yourself a super cheap holiday. Dont fall for the British derp.

I had cousins before welfare reform who lived on government assistance. Believe me, there is nothing luxurious about living on $600 a month in the 1970s. They barely scraped by, even though three brothers shared expenses. Of course, they didn't have a clue about how to manage money. All they did was eat junk food and stay up all night watching TV and slept all day. None of the three lived to be over 55 years old. Not a life I would wish on anyone. Poor nutrition and sedentary lifestyle plus depending on substandard health care usually sends these folks to an early grave.

Only £1,000/month? That's a drop in the bucket compared to Britain's most notorious welfare queen (emphasis on "queen"),... ;-)

I wonder what questions the reporter really asked, and how she really responded. This could easily be a case where they wanted to talk to people who have been helped by the welfare system - people who would otherwise be hungry or homeless. I sincerely doubt she was so cavalier and flaunting of her life on the dole - she was more likely grateful.

However, by the time the Sun was done with the editing (and embellishing) she comes off like the UK version of a US "welfare queen". The Sun used her to support their agenda of destroying the UK safety net.

Quantum Apostrophe: And she's not even a corporation! The least she could do is offshore her revenue.


lol

in America, the big government payouts go to big companies, not welfare queens.

It's a good thing money from the government comes out of thin air. Otherwise there would be people working for their paychecks paying for it.

/What the hell, the children of fools working to pay for "the dole" like that don't need new shoes anyway

FTFA:
She continued: "I love to buy clothes on my credit cards and often have a blow-out at stores like Roberto Cavalli and the Armani Exchange.

"I will pay off my credit cards eventually. I use my pay to cover the minimum repayment.

"I also enjoy going to nightclubs and parties with my friends. It's important to go out and get dressed up. It's good for my self-esteem."

The blonde insisted: "Every mother deserves a treat."

Damn I want to punch her in the face.

The only thing I'd change about their system is a monitoring to ensure that the recipients are either training for new work or going to school or actively seeking work.

There will ALWAYS be those few that take advantage of the system. These few are not reason enough to ruin the whole system for the many who do not abuse it.

Other than that, non-story here.

Summary: "Blah blah blah. Someone is getting government benefits and a certain crowd of people are never going to be happy with that. Mention of woman's immigration status to further enrage said crowd. Feel bad for all the downtrodden middle class and wealthy people whose precious tax dollars support the safety net. Poor people shouldn't have refrigerators, TVs or phones."

Did I cover everything?

LawrencePerson: The European welfare state is unsustainable.

As is our own.

Well, I guess if your blog says so....

GAT_00: Yeah, this story isn't totally fake and designed to stir up conservative Brits.

They don't really need stirring up. I have heard at first hand some of them saying stuff lke "if only we had taken the olive branch Hitler offered in '41, we wouldn't have all these...." (eyes shift back and forth in case brown people are in earshot) "...social issues now."

Yeah, because all those colonials and Poles would've been lampshades by now, eh, Brigadier Pip, pip, what?

BravadoGT: Thank God that could never happen in the good ol' USA


in the USA, the big payouts go to the huge farm owners and other big ticket boys. we have scruples here.

She looks like Mr. Bean wearing makeup.

weltallica: [i.imgur.com image 850x560]

$15,000... isn't that what a part time Starbucks barista makes?

LOLWUT??! Why is there a picture of a harried family of six that I'm supposed to apparently feel sorry for how hard life is on them... making $650k per year.

weltallica: [i.imgur.com image 850x560]


Wha wha wha? That picture is a joke, right?

Single parent, two children, Income: $260,000
Single person, Income: $230,000
Retired couple, Income: $180,000
Married couple, four children, Income: $650,000

Who the hell makes this kind of coin, besides the top, say, 1-2%? I'm sure they are SUFFERING due to their small tax increase.

hasty ambush: New York: Welfare $$ Used at Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores

$69 million in California welfare money spent in Vegas and Disneyland

Not sure about the California situation, but in the NY one a follow up story that wasn't just sensational bullshiat quantified the amount - it was about 1% of the entire benefits paid out for that period of time and it was actually money withdrawn from ATM's, not just spent at those locations - which is actually almost unquantifable because you can (obviously, right?) go to any ATM and withdraw money on your benefits card and then spend it any place as cash.

Honestly, if people are only spending 1% of the benefits money they're given on stuff that people might find "morally reprehensible", then I think we should call that a win. That's a better ratio I bet than faith based GOP lobbyists that cheat on their wives with men.

hasty ambush: cig-mkr: This is an outrage ! Why can't the American people support our folks in need like England does?
Poor people should be able to live with dignity too.

In America she is what is called an undocumented Democrat voter.

You really are a child.

$15,000... isn't that what a part time Starbucks barista makes?

Welcome to Obama's America.

digistil: WhoopAssWayne: The Liberal Utopia - government stealing from the working guy to pay off some tax-evading, freeloading doucebag. Put these motherf***ers in a government factory, 16 hours of hard labor a day, and we'll beat the Chinese at their own game.

Funny thing is, the conservatives won't allow it because that'd be 'soshulizm.'

It's only socialism if the government does it. Privatize it and it's all good.

/Mmmm - slave labor profits.....

ChaosStar: FTFA:
She continued: "I love to buy clothes on my credit cards and often have a blow-out at stores like Roberto Cavalli and the Armani Exchange.

"I will pay off my credit cards eventually. I use my pay to cover the minimum repayment.

"I also enjoy going to nightclubs and parties with my friends. It's important to go out and get dressed up. It's good for my self-esteem."

The blonde insisted: "Every mother deserves a treat."

Damn I want to punch her in the face.

Exactly, she isn't paying for the nice clothes and vacations with her benefits, she is paying for them by running up credit card debt that she will repay "eventually".

/But I don't know why so many from the US are pissed, that was The American Way from 1997-2007.
//And $20-25,000, in benefits, not even just cash-in-hand, seems like a small price to pay to keep the kid from having to live on the street and watch her mom turn tricks in the back seat, eventually learning that there is no reasosn to try and help society, but instead it exists soley to be preyed upon...or something.
///And how can someone who legitimately speaks 6 languages not find a job somewhere? Unless she speaks pig-latin and obscure Lithuanian dialects spoken by the mute tribes of the northern hinterlands.

And I thought the US media had a complete lack of ethics. I would not be surprised if this story was outed as a complete lie in a few days. Well, that or it will be found on FreeRepublic stirring the paranoid minds of our "American Patriots".

DemoKnite: Story is fake or embellished

We know. The Sun is a tabloid and people like her are its equivalent of Bat Boy.

I didn't realize it was so cheap to live in the UK. People who make 50k a year must be kings!

Smoking hot???

// subby needs to crawl out of the basement from time to time...

Linux_Yes: in the USA, the big payouts go to the huge farm owners and other big ticket boys. we have scruples here.

Hardly. I know of people who keep their special needs kids alive just because they get a weekly paycheck from the State. I'm not talking "Little billy has social skill problems" special needs. I'm talking "Little billy is dependant on a trach and g-tube, and his brain turned to mush years ago" kind of special needs.

Saw smoking-hot, know it's fark level of smoking-hot

/yup, just as expected, never disappointed

SoothinglyDeranged: That is one, predictably, ugly face.



yah, what a hag

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