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>easy getting benefit, as soon as you're unemployed, but it's no fortune - c £60 per week. And, as in my case, and thanks to Bill Clinton's initiatives, the "job-seekers' allowance" only runs for 6 months. Social security payments, say for unemployed families, esp. with kids, can run indefinitely (like your Americans "on welfare").
What did Bill Clinton have to do with England's policies?
>Notwithstanding the reality of all this, your jibe didn't seem to be aimed at scroungers but more mocking people who were put out of work, through no fault of their own.
I didn't get that from his message. I'm surprised at the response to his message actually.
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