I saw this really, really small piece of news in the morning paper a while back: “Headbanging is ruled a disability“. I was on my way to work & I thought the British benefits system is really going to the dogs. But hang on this is happening in Sweden! As soon as I got home & was able to blog, I checked out Mr Roger Tullgren & sure enough he’s in ananova.

So Tullgren complains his Heavy Metal obsession should be classified as a handicap and they did. Now he’s going to receive an estimated £65 per week! Perhaps I should try the same application here as my practise for the Metallica concert is causing me so much problems – I can’t stop listening to “Enter Sandman”.

Seriously though, the number of benefit cheats in any state that offers a good benefits package is unbelievable. Here in Britain they’ve been showing ads on tv and on print about the punishment & threat of detection for as long as I can remember. They’ve been encouraging people on sick benefit to get off their bum and look for work. They even have a monetary incentive for those who do take a job. Then we have illegal immigrants and EU migrants. The British government started paying some of them to leave and go back where they came from. But honestly, isn’t that more like an invitation than a deterrent?

And who is shouldering all these expenses and gleaming glorious benefits system? The tax payers like myself, of course. It gives me a warm feeling inside, especially when the government keeps highlighting that there may not be enough money for me when it’s my turn to ask for help or time to retire. Right now, the pensioners across the UK are being supported by the current workforce, too. And the pension forecast for the working class is that there will not be enough people of working age to support the present future-pensioners!

Then you are also made aware that some people bore a great number of kids in order to receive more child benefits & bigger houses. These people are also often unable to work due to some illness or some just say they don’t want to work because they want to be with their kids – both mother & father! So who’s feeding them? The state! It makes your blood boil. The reality is even grimmer if you look at the fact that a single mum will have more money than a two-parent family because the former receives so many benefits & tax breaks, whilst the typical family is left to fend for themselves.

It can make your blood boil sometimes. But then looking at how it is back “home”, I used to get taxed 35% of my pay & I see nothing come out of it. The Philippines has no benefits system that I know about that actually does what it says on the label, has poor & corrupt Education system, has untrust-worthy policemen who I’d encounter asking for traffic violation money, and public servants you’d want to strangle (ever applied for Tax Code on your own?)! I know, I’m painting a very bad picture of our country, but it’s a reality that hurts me, too.

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So we have the yellow pages, we have them online, we have them at home. A lot of similar services have been sprouting all over the internet, too. Like2Find.com is the new player in town. Its top level categories include: Business Directory, Events, Stuff for Rent, Stuff for Sale, Items Wanted, Jobs, People, and then there’s this section called Everything Else.

At first I thought it was a US only service but actually, no. It’s a global ad site. There is a small charge to list your Business in the Business Directory but everything else is free and there is no limit as to how many free Ads you can place.