His remarks were widely criticized as inappropriate, but they did inspire Willie Nelson to organize a series of events, Farm Aid, to benefit debt-ridden American farmers.
Funding for people with housing, welfare benefits, debt and immigration problems has recently been removed.
Find the song on "Drop the Debt" (World Village/Harmonia Mundi), a charity compilation that benefits debt cancellation for developing countries.
With less tax going to government and rising public expenditure for benefits, debt rises and either destabilises the currency or it becomes unserviceable.
The problems are usually to do with "money, their benefits, debt or employment or those who want to come here from within Europe or outside the EU".
In the introduction to a new report, to be published tomorrow, Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, warns that abolishing legal aid for issues such as welfare benefits, debt, most housing problems and employment will have "a devastating impact" on its ability to provide specialist advice and casework to tens of thousands of people who need help with everyday legal problems.
Ministers plan to scrap public funding for what is inelegantly categorised as "social welfare law": welfare benefits, employment, debt, immigration, plus most housing except where there is homelessness.
The government plans to sever the link between legal aid and the kind of legal services needed by the poor and vulnerable by scrapping advice for social welfare law: advice on welfare benefits, employment, debt, most housing and immigration.
Of the £350m to be cut, £280m comes from civil matters, and so it's goodbye to social welfare law – advice on welfare benefits, employment, debt, immigration, plus most housing (except where there is homelessness).
African countries are likely to benefit from debt audits and repudiation of odious debts but leaders who have benefited personally from irresponsible borrowing are unlikely to initiate such audits.
In some countries it is referred to as poverty law because it covers legal areas such as welfare benefits, housing, debt, community care and employment.
