What a waste of money that Buckingham Palace is

77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

Dreamsglore wrote:77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

True example of socialism at work. Those are your peeps hater.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

True example of socialism at work. Those are your peeps hater.

Shut up you twisted f---!

Dreamsglore wrote:

PACEDOG#1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

True example of socialism at work. Those are your peeps hater.

Shut up you twisted f---!

Truth hurts?

Dreamsglore wrote:77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

The citizens of England take great pride in the Royal Family along with all the pomp and circumstance of days gone by.

If THEY approve, and are willing to pay the taxes to support the Royal Family, how is that a concern of ours?

I'd be more concerned about the failed health care system they have, are willing to tolerate and what President Barack Hussein Obama this would be ideal for our country.

THE REST OF THE STORY

The Civil List payment to the Queen is about £40m a year and is paid as a result of a deal between George III and the British Government about 250 years ago. In that deal, the Monarch gets a regular 'Civil List' payment, and in exchange the Government gets profits from the Crown Estates. All profits are paid to the Treasury.

For the year ending 2011, Crown Estate profits were £230.9 million. So, the net benefit of this arrangement to the UK taxpayer is nearly £200m. Without it, taxes in Britain would go up

PACEDOG#1 wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

True example of socialism at work. Those are your peeps hater.

     Are we as a nation waste free...fiscally sound that we should point out other nations waste(s)...

I like this new generation. Kate and William and their baby.
Charles is such a weirdo and never has really been likable. I thought Diana was a little strange. I did sort of feel for her in that I felt Charles never really cared for her. But Kate--I like her. And for some reason--maybe just the photos of the way William looks at her- I think she and William's relationship is real and sincere, unlike his parents' was.

But I do not understand why Brits will stand out in the rain for hours to see these people. I guess the royal family is equivalent to our movie stars. I don't understand why some Americans will stand out in the rain for hours to see a celebrity, either. But the royal family seems to make Brits happy and proud and patriotic...so good for them on that.

Nekochan wrote:

But I do not understand why Brits will stand out in the rain for hours to see these people.   I guess the royal family is equivalent to our movie stars.  I don't understand why some Americans will stand out in the rain for hours to see a celebrity, either.   But the royal family seems to make Brits happy and proud and patriotic...so good for them on that.  

I guess it's human nature to decide who the cool people are and put them on pedestals.  I say that because throughout history people have been on their knees looking up to whatever they decided was their cool person/people.
Be it kings or the ultra-rich or religious figures or the hollywood celebrity or the athlete or whatever.  It's a whole Walter Mitty thing.  People aspire to be that but of course can't be so the next best thing is to ogle it and imagine what it would be like to be one.

Dreamsglore wrote:77 million a year it costs to run that place w/ a staff of 450-800 people. The whole royal family gets a free ride given millions of dollars from the taxpayers just because they are related to ancestors that ruled hundreds of years ago.Talk about welfare grunts!

That number is not even close to the total costs of running the White House which exceeds $1 Billion factoring in AF-1 and the helicopter squadron. There is a lot to be said for tradition - of which you know absolutely nothing.

Welfare mothers are a tradition too. Let's not discriminate against traditions here.

Dreamsglore wrote:Welfare mothers are a tradition too. Let's not discriminate against traditions here.

Would that be single mothers?

Nekochan wrote:I like this new generation.  Kate and William and their baby.
Charles is such a weirdo and never has really been likable.  I thought Diana was a little strange.  I did sort of feel for her in that I felt Charles never really cared for her.   But Kate--I like her.  And for some reason--maybe just the photos of the way William looks at her- I think she and William's relationship is real and sincere, unlike his parents' was.

But I do not understand why Brits will stand out in the rain for hours to see these people.   I guess the royal family is equivalent to our movie stars.  I don't understand why some Americans will stand out in the rain for hours to see a celebrity, either.   But the royal family seems to make Brits happy and proud and patriotic...so good for them on that.  

Some people have that herding instinct which is prevalent in the group known as "Tribalistic."

The Brits are saying the same thing about our white house. What a waste of money.