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Britain shows us that socialism works as efficiently in housing as it does in everything else:

Mother-of-seven Toorpakai Saiedi, 35, receives £170,000 a year in benefits — a staggering £150,000 of which is paid to a private landlord for the rent of their seven-bedroom house in West London.

The detached property in Acton has two large reception rooms, two kitchens, a dining room and a 100ft garden.
Ealing Council is picking up the £12,458 a month bill — which is nearly five times the rent for a similar property in the same road.

It's not all roses for Toorpakai, an Afghan asylum seeker whose estranged husband drives a taxi. Her son Jawad complains:
Some of the rooms in England we would not even put our chickens in because they are so small.

Jawad is a student who admits to spending most of his time driving around or playing snooker. He's philosophical about the fairness of living like royalty on the backs of British taxpayers:

When the council chose to put us here we did not say no. If someone gave you a lottery jackpot would you leave it?

But society's ability to pay out housing jackpots to parasites is limited — as Americans have already learned thanks to the subprime crisis that is crippling our economy.

Nishlord wrote:I dunno, Cuda. If only we had your government here. They'd certainly know how to sort it out, what with them being so good with money, I'll be bound.

Jsc810 wrote:Strange laws those Brits have, can't even put up a fence on your rental property because the thieves might get scratched.

Jerkovich wrote:

Nishlord wrote:I dunno, Cuda. If only we had your government here. They'd certainly know how to sort it out, what with them being so good with money, I'll be bound.

Good thing about this crisis, Europe and Asia will fair MUCH worse.

BSmack wrote:

Jsc810 wrote:Strange laws those Brits have, can't even put up a fence on your rental property because the thieves might get scratched.

As long as the US sports the most idiotic and repressive drug laws in the Western world, we don't have much cause to rag on England for their laws.

BSmack wrote:

Jsc810 wrote:Strange laws those Brits have, can't even put up a fence on your rental property because the thieves might get scratched.

As long as the US sports the most idiotic and repressive drug laws in the Western world, we don't have much cause to rag on England for their laws.

Nishlord wrote:

Jerkovich wrote:

Nishlord wrote:I dunno, Cuda. If only we had your government here. They'd certainly know how to sort it out, what with them being so good with money, I'll be bound.

Good thing about this crisis, Europe and Asia will fair MUCH worse.

Oh, I don't know. We won't be stepping over your unconscious carcass, still holding a sign reading 'NEED MONNEY 4 DILDOERS AND ENTIRNIT AKSES' on our way to work.