>>>>>SNIP
>>>>>>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?
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>>>>Didn't he introduce welfare benefits that stopped after 6 months, thus forcing people into work? Maybe I recall incorrectly.
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>>>Not in England.
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>>Well DUH-UH! Of course not. But our govt. copied his initiative. I wish they'd copy the "3 strikes and out" policy too.
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>Unfortunately, in states that enforce the 3-strike policy, murder rates have skyrocketed. The logic is generally either "no witnesses so they can't send me back to prison" or "if I'm going back to prison, may as well make it worthwhile"
I see - "... hanged for a sheep as for a lamb". I suppose it was that sort of thing that ended severe sentences for such as steeling a loaf of bread, back in yore.

But it's never enough for the likes of this piece of human garbage:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Father_gets_life_for_baby_murder&in_article_id=481870&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=

Life = "...minimum of 11 years "