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Friday, October 19, 2012

Channel 4 News UK: 'Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell Resigns'


Source:Channel 4 News- reporter covering this story.

"Andrew Mitchell resigns over allegations he called police "plebs" - which he denied in a letter to the prime minister, although he admits using the f-word." 


"Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public service television network. Its headquarters are in London, with a National HQ[clarification needed] in Leeds and creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol.[1]

It began its transmission on 2 November 1982, the day after Welsh language broadcaster S4C's launch. The channel was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom; at the time the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC 1 and BBC 2, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),[2] the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,[3] which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. In 2010, Channel 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel." 

From Wikipedia

I guess Andrew Mitchell needs to learn to watch his fucking language. Or at least not fucking cuss in front of fucking British cops or fucking cuss at fucking British cops. Ot something like that. LOL

Newsmax: John Bachman- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan: 'Welfare Reform Starts With New White House Leadership'


Source:Newsmax- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee.

"Rep. Jim Jordan: Welfare Reform Starts With New White House Leadership" 

From Newsmax

As Representative Jim Jordan said himself and told Newsmax, the new costs to public assistance in America has to do with the economy. The Great Recession started 4 years ago, we're still at 8% unemployment right now and around 20% poverty in this country. It's not like President Obama and Congress decided to increase the budgets on public welfare and are throwing money at these problems. It's that we have more people unemployed, more people with low-income, low-skilled jobs, and as a result more people who are eligible for public assistance, than we did even 5-6 years ago, or 10-15 years ago.

I also agree with Representative Jordan on how to address these issues. We obviously need a better economy, more people not just working, but working in jobs that makes them economically independent of public assistance. 

But for people who are eligible for public assistance, especially low-skilled adults with kids on those programs, there needs to be work and educational requirements for them so they can start working, but as they are working, they are getting the skills that they need to get themselves a good job and get off of public assistance. While they don't lose their public financial assistance that they need to live, while they're working their low-income jobs and in school to get the skills that they need to get themselves a good job and be financially independent.