TheMightyEthan Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Ah yeah. Living in the US I know exactly where mine goes. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Well, TN has a point. In Texas we have the lottery which "supports education". Well, it does and it doesn't. Education has a budget and that money is either funded by taxes (mostly property taxes) or by other funds. Well, what they do is "deduct" the revenues from the lottery from the education taxes and then move that money somewhere else, who knows where, so technically the money from the lottery goes to education but that actual amount of money being spent on education hasn't increased at all as a result. This probably happens with many other systems like gas taxes and such. My only point is just because someone says that money goes somewhere doesn't mean it's really going there. Greater transparency is part of the problem but uninformed masses are also a large part of the problem. Edited January 19, 2012 by Yantelope V2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I say Aye! Then we'll convince Wales that they should be seperate and we'll establish the Celtic Empire AND RULE THE WORLD! MWAHAHAHAHAA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Just so long as all you Celts remember that you're not actually going to get to keep the oil and gas in the North Sea for yourselves you can devolve away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Just so long as all you Celts remember that you're not actually going to get to keep the oil and gas in the North Sea for yourselves you can devolve away. Try and take it from us! We've got chainmail, bitches! And Scotsmen! Oh and we battle naked. Try stealing our oil and gas when there's a thousand naked men running at you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Running? Our oil and gas is in the sea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 England would just use a giant straw and drink it all up. I saw it in a film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 We're going to contract out to Burns Slant Drilling Co. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 We're going to contract out to Burns Slant Drilling Co. Candy from a baby eh? That sounds like a larf! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 (sweets) Also it wouldn't be Montgomery Burns but Robert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 (sweets) Also it wouldn't be Montgomery Burns but Robert. I'm confused by this. Is that a english v english thing? Candy from a baby vs. sweets from a baby? Also I thought it was a reference to this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Yeah we have sweets not candy. Yes it was a reference to that. Robert Burns however is a pretty famous Scotsman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I'd still say the phrase 'stealing candy from a baby' not sweets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9083438/Sean-Penn-calls-Prince-Williams-deployment-to-Falkland-Islands-unthinkable.html Native American Politician and Part-Time Actor Sean Penn gives us the benefit of his years of experience in foreign diplomacy insisting that the entirely indigenous population of Argentina hand over the Falkland islands because the UK are a bunch of mean old colonials... They're ours, now piss off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 http://jobcentreplus...FT-id-BSD-27442 Stay Classy Tesco/Job Centre. For the non-UK folks at home Tesco = Wal-Mart. JSA = Job Seekers Allowance. It's a gov't paid amount for those..well seeking work. Basically Tesco just advertised for a job for which the pay is a gov't benefit scheme. Bonus points to the gov't cos they're actually encouraging this. Why offer tax breaks to huge companies when you can offer a free work force? Oh and given what was ever so briefly mentioned last week, I may soon be able to give you some info on what it's like to be part of this scheme. Woot. It'll be the first time the Job Centre will have lifted a finger in getting me into work. Oh yeah this scheme has been brought up before on here, just this is (afaik) the first time it has been posted up on the Job Centre site alongside all the other jobs, not just some semi-hush hush scheme the JC bump you onto after a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 So when they say "Wage=JSA+expenses", they mean they want you to work and only be paid unemployment checks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 It says the duration is permanent? I thought it was a fixed term with the possibility of a 'proper job' at the end of it or is this something different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 So when they say "Wage=JSA+expenses", they mean they want you to work and only be paid unemployment checks? Yeah. And expenses. Which will probably be whatever a bus fair is. @Gerbil: I dunno. It seems to be the previously mentioned work scheme, can't see it being much else. Maybe a Temp job is only a month or so by Job Centre standards (the work scheme is up to 8 weeks iirc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 So when they say "Wage=JSA+expenses", they mean they want you to work and only be paid unemployment checks? Yes, that's exactly what they mean, so they'lll be getting significantlly less than the proper employees, and it works out at conssiderably less than the legal minimum wage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 JSA = £45 a week. When I was on minimum wage 5 years ago (I think minimum wage is now almost a pound more), I raked in £200 a week, plus overtime and shift allowance making about £220-£250 a week. So yeah, it's considerably lower than minimum wage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 So tesco gets free labor and you get a JSA check... do you get a JSA payment just while searching anyway, or do you have to be in one of these programs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 You get JSA anyway. So yeah they get free gov't sponsored work force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connorrrr Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 That is... Wow. Bullshit. How is this even legal? If you're working then surely you need to be paid minimum wage, not JSA. You're not seeking a job if you're working for Tesco, you're in a job. This is... I know I'm stating the obvious but I mean... It's all so obvious isn't it? What the fuck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 (edited) you know a lot of the people on these courses are not of benefit to the company they go to work at - not everyone on JSA is an earnest and eager potential employee. edit: connorrrr, they aren't working for Tesco, they're training/getting experience on a Jobcentre course. Edited February 16, 2012 by TheFlyingGerbil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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