ALSO i have never bought the story of JK Rowling being an out of luck woman who was abandoned by her husband and had to raise their kid(s) alone, while on welfare and writing the novel.
UK's dole was absolutely the opposite of USA's intentionally dysfunctional system. everybody in the UK has been on the dole at one point or another because that's your right. it's not the exploitative & humiliating experience Reagan & Clinton made it to be.
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