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    "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

    Nice to see our taxes being spent wisely...

    #2
    "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

    That kind of money buys a lot of bullshit.....

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      #3
      "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

      And Conservative AM Jonathan Morgan said: “It’s an utter disgrace that taxpayers’ money is being wasted and given to an organisation that believes it can teach people how to communicate with the dead.
      I wonder how he feels about the church's tax status.

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        #4
        "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

        To be honest, while that's a clear case of the wrong people getting taxpayers' money, at the government agency where I work the budget for the M&S sandwiches, fruit and sweets they deem essential to any meeting (and boy do they do a lot of meeting) probably matches the GDP of Porthcawl.

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          #5
          "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

          We're not allowed tea and biscuits in meetings anymore unless we have external visitors.

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            #6
            "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

            Do you have to bring your own teabags to work if you want a cup during the day?

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              #7
              "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

              Having worked for a penny-pinching company my whole adult life, the idea of sandwiches or biscuits at meetings feels to me like the sort of flashy extravagance you only see at investment banks and Magic Circle law firms. Probably because that's the only time I do see them.

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                #8
                "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                Paul, 40, last night defended the Welsh Assembly Government and Department for Work and Pensions’ Want2Work grant.

                He said: “What I would say to people who feel their tax money has been wasted is, if they lose a child, if they lose a mother or father, then they will go to a medium to get peace that their child has passed safely and is in a better place.

                “People who have lost mums and dads or a child deserve all the respect in the world in their grieving and deserve a medium who can give them respect.
                Christ alfuckingmighty.

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                  #9
                  "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                  Mind you, no story that quotes the wretched frauds of the Taxpayers Alliance deserves to be taken seriously.

                  £4,500 isn't very much in taxpayers' money terms is it? Probably what senior representatives of our taxpayer-propped-up banks spunk in a lapdancing club in one evening.

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                    #10
                    "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                    It's still four and a half grand more than these charlatan fuckwidges deserve though.

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                      #11
                      "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                      I dunno, they work very hard, those girls.

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                        #12
                        "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                        Hobbes, I agree - I just think it's a bit of a non-story, and its non-story status is amplified by the existence of a rent-a-quote from the Taxdodgers Alliance

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                          #13
                          "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                          Fucking Taxbastards' Alliance! Christ, those fuckers make my blood boil every time one of the bastards is given air time on the radio to whine about how filthy little poor people who can't get on their bikes and find a job, the sick, the mentally ill and frankly anyone or anything else whatsoever be it mad psychics or the bin men is a leech on the honest, hardworking taxpayer.

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                            #14
                            "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                            But Cuntwagons’ Alliance campaign director Mark Wallace said: “People work hard to afford to pay taxes and the last thing our money should be spent on is this kind of hocus pocus.

                            “At a time when people who are alive are losing their jobs, it’s absurd that money is being spent trying to contact the other side.”
                            See, this is the thing. It's not an endorsement of psychics, it's not a handout. The recipient may not get it (the bit Taylor quotes is astoundingly dumb), but the point of this is to give people starting capital to get a profitable business going. Psychic agencies, like it or not, are profitable businesses. They make some money, spend some money, other people in turn make money, spend it, the economy gets going again. Unless you're a fucking Hooverite or something, or have an autistic attachment to tax cuts, or are a demagogic Tory idiot who knows this makes sense but sees political capital to be made by misrepresenting and decrying it, it should be obvious that the net benefit to the economy is likely to be massively more than the £4,500 they've been paid.

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                              #15
                              "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                              Also Sprach Zaratoro wrote:
                              But Cuntwagons’ Alliance campaign director Mark Wallace said: “People work hard to afford to pay taxes and the last thing our money should be spent on is this kind of hocus pocus.

                              “At a time when people who are alive are losing their jobs, it’s absurd that money is being spent trying to contact the other side.”
                              See, this is the thing. It's not an endorsement of psychics, it's not a handout. The recipient may not get it (the bit Taylor quotes is astoundingly dumb), but the point of this is to give people starting capital to get a profitable business going. Psychic agencies, like it or not, are profitable businesses. They make some money, spend some money, other people in turn make money, spend it, the economy gets going again. Unless you're a fucking Hooverite or something, or have an autistic attachment to tax cuts, or are a demagogic Tory idiot who knows this makes sense but sees political capital to be made by misrepresenting and decrying it, it should be obvious that the net benefit to the economy is likely to be massively more than the £4,500 they've been paid.
                              But the money and the development of the centre is being justified on pastoral and social support reasons. So if they're intending to make money and a profit from that it's obscene and downright fucking immoral.

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                                #16
                                "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                                How very silly.

                                That is not, of course, the basis on which the Want2Work scheme justifies the grant.

                                It's the reason the couple think it's justified, but we all agree they are fucking idiots. Their stupidity is entirely independent of whether giving them money makes sense or not.

                                You'll have to explain this "pastoral and social support shouldn't turn a profit" thing to me. Is it the same as "socialists can't wear shoes"?

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                                  #17
                                  "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                                  Unless you're a fucking Hooverite or something, or have an autistic attachment to tax cuts, or are a demagogic Tory idiot who knows this makes sense but sees political capital to be made by misrepresenting and decrying it,
                                  A forensically accurate description of the Whingingselfpitying Scumwhores Alliance it has to be said.

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                                    #18
                                    "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                                    I've no truck with the shithouses from taxpayers anonymous either.
                                    But giving money to this shit is feeding them ammo. What next? Grants for snake oil salesmen? Seed capital for Pyramid schemes?

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                                      #19
                                      "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                                      Fuck them. Give them ammo, let them Philip Collopy themselves. Getting the economy working is more important than pandering to these assholes.

                                      Look at the US situation. If they can't find anything actually dumb to complain about, they'll complain about volcano monitoring, or the fruit-fly research which has given us the majority of our understanding of genetics. They'll make noise regardless.

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                                        #20
                                        "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                                        Fuck the TA.
                                        I reckon this is ludicrous. Completely on my own without having them to think for me. It's dishonest and therefore should not recieve government money. Thieves might make a profit, but you wouldn't give a ram-raider a grant for bull bars on the front of their van, would you? Or give a con-man cash to set up his marks?
                                        This is all this shower are doing. Obtaining money by deception.

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                                          #21
                                          "Five grands worth of tea leaves please."

                                          Did anyone else think of this, when they read the thread title?

                                          http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/09/asia/tea.php

                                          Also Sprach Zaratoro wrote:
                                          Fuck them. Give them ammo, let them Philip Collopy themselves. Getting the economy working is more important than pandering to these assholes.

                                          Look at the US situation. If they can't find anything actually dumb to complain about, they'll complain about volcano monitoring, or the fruit-fly research which has given us the majority of our understanding of genetics. They'll make noise regardless.
                                          By they, you mean republican politicians. Right? They're not the sharpest crayons in the box, but the whole world knows that by now.

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