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Recession here we come...but taxes keep going up!
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Originally posted by sasguru View Postpigs are more likely to fly than for our government to efficiently use public money
In helicopters.
On happy jolies chasing UFOs which they forget to take pictures of.
Yeah. Right.
Where's your tax money?
Paying for pigs to fly.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostOh goody Chuck Norris is back from 'Nam again to tell us how much better things are done in the land of the septics. USA! USA!
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Originally posted by Mailman View PostI was hoping for more of a Claud Van Dam type of comparison!
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In this case a Belgian actor who's cocaine addiction led to bipolar disorder (or was it the other way around?) and who signed divorce papers alleging spousal abuse - cool eh?Last edited by Peoplesoft bloke; 11 July 2008, 10:44.Comment
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Originally posted by ratewhore View Postgeneral election cometh...Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostMilton Friedman: advised General Pinochet. Pinochet, who famously massacred stadiums-full of his fellow citizens, demurred at the pain that some of Friedman's prescriptions would cause. Friedman didn't: people didn't really appear in his world-view.
Anyway the reforms were quite miraculous for a few years what with:-
liberalized public sector - largely moved to the private sector
liberalized credit - to allow individuals access to cheap money (what with the escudo being pegged to the dollar it was very cheap money)
liberalized imports - allowing the people to buy lots of shiny new cars, tv's etc. with the cheap money they had borrowed.
It was very successful until the unanticipated event happened. In Chiles case falling metal prices. It did collapse rather spectacularly.
Anyway, we have all learnt from these mistakes and nothing like this will ever happen again will it. After all it's not like we've had easy credit. worsening trade deficit and now rapidly increasing energy and raw material prices.Comment
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Scorced Earth
Well we're really in the tulipe now.
The theory is, in all likelihood, that Gordon Brown and Labour will lose the election. Hence he really doesn't care any more what the public think, and he will proceed to do whatever he likes and raise whichever taxes he sees fit. He is also somewhat unconcerned by the burgeoning national debt, which now stands at an all time record of some 40% of GDP. He's forcing the country into ever greater debt and raping the plebs for as much as he can squeeze. He'll keep on doing this because he knows the public might cry but they won't retaliate. He will leave this country and its people destitute.
This will be his legacy to the winners of the next election, to the Conservatives. This is a Scorched Earth policy. Much the same used by losers of territorial war.Comment
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Originally posted by TazMaN View PostWell we're really in the tulipe now.
The theory is, in all likelihood, that Gordon Brown and Labour will lose the election. Hence he really doesn't care any more what the public think, and he will proceed to do whatever he likes and raise whichever taxes he sees fit. He is also somewhat unconcerned by the burgeoning national debt, which now stands at an all time record of some 40% of GDP. He's forcing the country into ever greater debt and raping the plebs for as much as he can squeeze. He'll keep on doing this because he knows the public might cry but they won't retaliate. He will leave this country and its people destitute.
This will be his legacy to the winners of the next election, to the Conservatives. This is a Scorched Earth policy. Much the same used by losers of territorial war.Comment
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