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  Gary and Alex - the problem is that nothing you mention is causing the current financial problems and your attitudes will only deepen these problems causing capital flight and massive unemployment.
  
  It is easy to find things to whinge about, that don't suite you but getting to the very core of the country's problems is another matter. You are too concerned with irrelevancies, spurred by a dose of socialist envy.
  
  Think for a minute. Why should the power firms not pay out dividends to those who own them? After all these happen to be to the larger extent our pension funds and ISA funds so we are benefiting and they also need to attract more capital investment. It is a decent dividend level that make such firms a good investment, these firm do not attract 'growth' investors, I can tell you that from a professional angle.
  
  Farmers are paid subsidies as part of CAP. I am no fan of CAP but it is a policy developed by the EU originally to ensure secure foods supplies and extended to preserve wildlife and the countryside. Laudable aims.
  
  Gary your old 70's class war attitudes were out of date then.
  
  I am all for the 'honest hard working people' and I want their taxes cut and more money in their pockets.
  
  My problem is with the scrounging layabouts living on benefits who should be getting off their backsides. Benefits should be a short term safety net only to help people get over a bad period in their lives but now it is a lifestyle choice for too many.
  
  We have a problem caused by excessive government spending placing a massive burden on businesses, particularly small businesses added to by excessive red tape that strangles enterprise. This is made worse by our major export market struggling under an ill-conceived currency union. Together this is what is creating a double dip recession, something I warned about at the start of the first dip years ago.
  
  
  Gary - the simple fact is that every measure needed to correct this are those that people like you, trade unionists and big government acolytes will hate. It is your kind of thinking here and abroad, enacted as government policy, that is causing the problems we have.

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