You old Red, you!!!!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Marek - your perfect socialist world of equality is a daydream that would turn into a nightmare in the real world.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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bloddy lefties ay barryw far to many of them
and now others are seeing the unfairness
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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slicing through the political yah boo sucks rhetoric the reality is that
a) the state (thats us folks) owes a pot load of money, that has to be paid back over the next 20 odd years
b) in order to do that the state can either borrow more (i.e. roll the debt over) or find some way to pay it down
c) the only realistic way to pay it down is the same way you and I do it, spend less than we earn and use the resulting difference to clear the debt
d) if we are lucky and the due date for the debt is some way off we can save/invest the money and make a bit extra (funnily enough government can do this too...)
e) unfortunately with current spending commitments government spends more than it earns
f) this means it has to cut spending heavily, or sell things off so it makes smaller cuts
g) lots of government bodies are sitting on huge quantities of assets they do not use - the MOD and NHS being 2 good examples - they have vast land and property banks that are sitting idle/empty
At the end of the day Micawber was right
"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
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Blimey Ross - I do believe that this is the third thread I have seen today where you and I are singing the same tune !!
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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I know Barry it is scary
Having said that I suspect we disagree about the speed at which it should be done
"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
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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ross careful mate thats close to a labour view
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Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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No surprise really. Over the past few decades we have sold off almost the whole of the nation's family silver. Just a few minor items left such as the Port of Dover. Now it is a case of drilling down into what we can find in town halls and the like. Bottom of the barrel but what else is left? I have taken the precaution of hiding my etchings under the bed.