Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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All down to the lowest common denominator then, eh Keith, that is the only thing that will satisfy you.
Keith Sansum1
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no, thinking of others
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:I certainly wouldn't defend someone earning millions, then getting £18 million bonus
whilst others struggle to find a few bob for the next meal
Well Keith I hope you never buy a J K Rowling book, or go to the pictures, or subscribe to SKY, or buy a PC etc, because every time you do you contribute to the wealth of an elite greedy pig.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you have to be on benefits to afford a sky subscription david, i thought barry made that clear.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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My point exactly Howard
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Warren Buffet....not an elite greedy pig.....makes another fortune by putting money in
Goldman Sachs by taking a 2 % stake in the Wall Street Bank effectively for `free`
.Buffet took advantage of a granted option to buy 43.5 million shares in Goldman at a price
of $ 115 .....the banks share price yesterday was $ 145.91 giving him a profit of $ 1.35 Billion.
Buffet worth $ 53.5 Billion boosted Goldman Sachs when Wall Street was teetering on the brink of collapse.
# 2523.....ludicrous correlation .............
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Why Reg, don't you believe in choice?
Barclays customers are clearly comfortable with the pay deal
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Warren Buffet said..
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection."
You would not approve of that, if you did then you would have been calling for the resignation of the Blair/brown government years ago and calling for more public spending cuts. Buffet speaks a lot of sense in many things but he would be no friend of yours.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Buffet has done a great job at fooling the gullible, flying round the world in his private jet, asset stripping, amassing $billions and calling for fairer taxes.
He's a very clever and wealthy man but I'm always amazed why he's held up as some paragon of virtue
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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If Buffet was a uk citizen he would be calling for the Coalition to be ineligible for reelection.................
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Quite right too Reg
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - strange #2530, do that and ignore the fools who created the deficit.
Your problem is in trying to have it all ways.
You attack the cuts and disagree with what is needed to deal with deficit reduction while attacking the high debt and remaining deficit.
The main problem we have is that the coalition has done done enough of what is needed and everything they need to do are things you oppose.
Your way would be to massively increase the deficit.
If we had Buffet's idea in practice Brown and Blair would have been kicked out many years ago and the same rule would have required the coalition to cut spending faster and deeper while also cutting taxes. Specially cutting the revenue reducing higher taxes on income while bringing in a whole raft of supply side changes you would also hate.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Tell it to the Marines...........live in the present not the past .........forget Brown it might improve your well-being..........
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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How you would love for us all to forget the fools who got us into this mess.
Those who forget the lessons of the past are set to make the same mistakes in future.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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...those that relied upon house price inflation perhaps?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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At last Barry you now see (2354) why we haven't had a Tory Government since 1997, people kicked them out, enough, over, finished two recessions, high interest, unemployment, everything sold off, wasted oil boom, civil unrest in some of our major cities, riots over a tax too far and finally a party that preaches family values and yet fornicate, live together despite telling everybody else that marriage is an institution.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 2534........the world is in the same mess.....your next investment must be a blood pressure m/c.................
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - so many other countries making the same mistakes we did is an excuse then? I do not accept that. If Brown had not gone on an insane spending spree and did not build up a structural deficit by 2005 we would not be in the situation we are in now. I could refer to his ill-judged brief to the Bank of England over inflation that was a direct cause of the housing and debt bubble etc etc etc.... But then he thought he had banned boom and bust did he not. mad totally mad.
Besides, the 'world' is not in the mess we are in simply because all countries did not make the mistakes we did. Some were more sensibly run and did not build up a massive deficit like us.
Dave1
We could indeed go back even further than that, to the last Labour screw up that had to be sorted by that great lady who saved this country from being the 'sick man of Europe'. A country before 1979 besieged by power crazed Trade Unions, cursed by unsupportable industrial subsidies to produce second rate goods no-one in their sense would buy, stricken by strikes. With useless nationalised industries where you even had to wait 3 months to get a hpone from the Post Office monopoly. But that was indeed a different age. Now, having suffered 13 years, the longest ever period of Labour government that created the deepest and longest recession in 80 years, we do indeed need to remember the lessons of the 1979-1987 period of government. We need someone like that great lady back to save this country again.
Brian Dixon
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oh no not godzilla,
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 2538.........182 / 110......call the doctor .....anyone in white coats...........