UK paid Gypsies to to attend seminar on health and schools

After eight years of Obamaism, we may be reading stories likes this taking place not in the United Kingdom, but in the United States.

From the Daily Mail:

Gipsies and travellers have been paid £60 each of taxpayers' money to attend a conference telling them how to see a doctor and send their children to school.

Dozens turned up at the day-long summit yesterday after they were offered the fee.

It advised them how to find a GP, dentist and a school for their children while moving between illegal sites.

Organisers of the Traveller and Gipsy Awareness Day handed out the money because they feared that few would attend without the financial incentive.

I kept the Daily Mail spelling of "Gypsy."

The paper reports that food and drinks were served to the Gypsies, many of whom left after lunch. They were probably laughing hard as they did so--after all, they had just scammed the British government.

Present day America may be made up by a bunch of Homer Simpsons, but we're not dumb enough to conned like the Brits.

At least yet.

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UK government health care nightmare: Gypsies first

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