Attitude poll.
- 3 December 2011 23:14140845Peter, you posed a question in your attitude poll:
2. To say in jest that investment bankers should be lined up and shot is offensive.
I was wondering which attitude you were referring to, and assuming it was the attitude of the fat-salary earners running on millions, tens of millions a year, tried to give some helpful advice.
Now it dawns on me you meant the arttitude of people in their thoughts towards such high-time earners.
I daresay the Forum's overwhelming participation in the poll gives some light to your question.
Have you ever read the history of the French Revolution? Finance ministers were sacked by king Louis the XVI for proposing that the rich pay taxes.
In those days the poor and middle class were heavily taxed.
Of-course the rich pay taxes today, but some of them give themselves massive salary increases in order to cover tax, and end up with even more wealth than if they had been tax-excempt! So really they are mocking society.
It took years for the people in France to get to the point in which the barrel blew over, years of provocations. They didn't just do it overnight.
I wish to compare myself here (for this occasion only) to one of the French ministers who advised the king to reason, but did not incite the people to revolution when he got sacked.
What followed came about by itself, with circumstances such as a few droughts worsening the situation, and queen Antoniette scoffing at the people and telling them to eat cake if they can't afford bread.
As said, Peter, la raison ici est morte!Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 3 December 2011 23:17140846Et vous n'etes pas Robespierre.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 3 December 2011 23:26140848No, Peter, I had made the comparison to the finance ministers who advised the king with sane reasoning, while he was still king, and not to Robespierre.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 3 December 2011 23:30140850But this thread was nothing to do with the issues you have brought up. I'm just trying to find out what makes forum members tick regarding issues like free speech and the PC debate. Nothing more. But I am learning far more from the people who won't disclose their view than I am from those who have.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 4 December 2011 01:32140852Well ok, Peter, I'll give my response in your poll. A.
I am innocent!
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 4 December 2011 09:45140872#58 - irrelevant Alexander. The issue is about the cost to the taxpayers of public sector pensions.
- 4 December 2011 12:38140887Is it?
- Ross Miller
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4 December 2011 12:40140889Oh dear how silly of me I thought it was about how we would respond to a hypothetical 4 part question"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - 4 December 2011 12:48140892
- 4 December 2011 13:52140901That's why I have made no comment or gave an answer, it will only be misconstrued."My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 4 December 2011 22:18140971The vast majority seem to be B which is what I would have expected. That seems to me to be a good moderate centrist viewpoint. Well, it would, wouldn't it, because that's where I am.
An unqualified A, I am afraid, makes you a fully paid up member of the PC brigade. A qualified B is to be expected from liberal-minded people, especially those whose work brings them into PC environments.
C or D obviously would make you a left- or right-wing bigot; nobody has owned up to either position but if there isn't a C or D out there somewhere I would eat my hat. That's why I said I was learning more from the fence-sitters than from the others.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - 4 December 2011 22:23140972never seen you as a moderate centrist peter?
i might have before keith outed you as a card carrying blue. - 4 December 2011 22:29140973Ho ho ho. :-)I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 4 December 2011 22:45140974Me, 'liberal minded' whose 'work brings them into pc environments' - that is not me at all Peter. Please do not be so insulting....
- 4 December 2011 22:48140975I didn't think your B was qualified Barry, I think it was intensified with an 'of course' !I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 4 December 2011 23:35140976Unqualified or not, I'm keeping to the A.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 5 December 2011 07:52140979I would have put you down as qualified Alexander, but not in the PC brigade, so was a little surprised to see that you didn't think of it as a joke.
But we're all different and a good job we are too.
Roger - Keith Sansum1
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5 December 2011 08:09140981I'm with post 70
post 73 you are naughty lolALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 5 December 2011 09:36140993# 72................confirms it was in ``Jest``