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BarryW.
Your arrogance is nothing short of insulting and your last post proves you do not have any idea what is going on around you.
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.
Captital Flight is exactly what is happening now and that is because of this governments policies.
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.
Core service cuts, cuts to youth projects, cuts to adult social care staff, 416 reported public sector cuts.
These might not be irrelevant to you, more is the pity, and this is where your sheer arrogance shines through.
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.
You think for a minute. Power firms paid out £7billion to shareholders while bills for ordinary customers have rocketing. Pensions decreasing so we are NOT benefiting. No capital investment IS being invested. British Gas investing £500 Billion on producing clean coal, creating jobs and attracting growth investors in Australia, NOT here.
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.
EU money that should be going to struggling farmers to help produce cheaper food for our consumers is going to landowners who have large amounts of hectares that produce nothing, not food, or preserving wildlife. That's not laudable not even laughable.
Gary your old 70's class war attitudes were out of date then.
If your arrogance allowed you to, you would have read my feelings on the unions ruining this country in the 70's They were obsessed with power and blind, to the damage they were causing to the ordinary people of this country, just like you are doing today, you are no better than they were.
I am all for the 'honest hard working people' and I want their taxes cut and more money in their pockets.
Wake up and smell the coffee, massive un-employment, unscrupulous agencies ripping off those "honest hard working people" part-time or nil hour contracts are now the norm, not full time employment. Your obsession with taxes is a farce.
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.
As repeated many many times, we ALL agree this statement but if this was successfully achieved, it would make no real difference to the country deficit and you know that, which makes it just a pet hate to you, a little personal crusade of yours. Stopping all the real fraud being carried out by banks and big business, WOULD make a difference to our deficit but you think most of these are people to be admired.
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.
Yes it is excessive government spending, amongst many other things and this government is as bad or worse, than all the others gone before it.
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.
My kind of thinking has nothing to do with trade unions, politics, policies or any other of your claptrap nonsense.
What I want IS a simple fact. I want business's to be successful, making themselves and their shareholders rich, who in turn will employ lots of people, with full time employment, on a decent living wage. The rich would be happy and the workers would not give a toss about them.
Tell me BarryW, you don't really believe I "envy you" do you?