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Во Франции дефицит сливочного масла впервые после Второй мировой. В магазинах пустые полки. 

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More than 90 percent of recent refugees from Middle Eastern nations are on food stamps and nearly 70 percent receive cash assistance, according to government data.

The Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) shows immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households, even higher than indicated by other Census surveys.

• in 2012, 51 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) reported that they used at least one welfare program during the year, compared to 30 percent of native households. Welfare in this study includes Medicaid and cash, food, and housing programs.


• Welfare use is high for both new arrivals and well-established immigrants. Of households headed by immigrants who have been in the country for more than two decades, 48 percent access welfare.

А мы  - невзирая (с):

Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers in a closed-door session on Wednesday that he favored significantly increasing the number of refugees the United States is willing to accept, possibly to as many as 100,000 next year, according to congressional staff members and Obama administration officials.

The country’s health care culture became one of overtreatment and overspending. Cardiac stenting, bone grafting and other expensive operations ruled the day. Caesarean-section rates hit 40 to 50 percent in some hospitals for no clinically justifiable reason. Doctors who faced disciplinary problems in other European countries set up shop in Greece, which requires only minimal credentials proving that the doctor has been practicing for three of the five years before applying for certification to practice medicine.

Хорошо знакомый modus operandi:

Every stakeholder was benefiting from the system, except one: the patient. In addition to the official costs of care and drugs, there was another price people had to pay: a fee known as “the envelope.” Surgeons receiving meager government paychecks were and still are routinely paid a large supplement by the patient’s family. The government turns a blind eye to this illegal practice, preferring to avoid addressing the disparity between low doctor pay and high systemic spending.

Вопрос у меня возник, наверно, глупый. Вспомнилось, что в советское время в сберкассе по срочным вкладам платили проценты, а именно 3% годовых. Спрашивается, зачем они их платили? Заманивать не надо было ввиду отсутствия конкурентов. И без всяких процентов все как миленькие положили бы свои денежки в сберкассу. Неужели это помогало уменьшить денежный навес? А если нет, то зачем?

A 'Rich Guy' Speaks Out Against Higher Taxes


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