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  • centurian
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    At least some of them are aware that their process of government now seems like this:
    Because unlike Wile E Coyote, US lawmakers think they can step over the cliff - and then step back again before gravity takes hold.

    Or to be more precise, they want to grab their cherished parts back onto the cliff and let the rest crash and burn.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    He's right dagnabbit.
    I once read a ghost story in which one of the Cornish villains kept saying "Dag blat it".

    Er, I can't think of anything else to say for the moment.

    Dag blat it!

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    Nice analogy.


    Annual Household income - £21,000
    Annual Household spends - £38,000
    Annual addition to credit card - £7,000

    Where's the extra £10K coming from? Or should it be 17K on the credit card? (Genuine question, not trying to 'nit-pick' - is it a typo, or is the other £10K coming from somewhere else?)
    dammit, you are right.

    it's even worse than we thought

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  • SimonMac
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    So after failing to reach an agreement and missing their own self imposed deadline the actual impact is, not really a lot?!

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    US heads off fiscal cliff… after which an anvil drops on their head
    and unfortunately, the anvil is tied by a not very long rope to our ankles ...

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    He's right dagnabbit.

    here is the US financial cliff, with a load of zeros taken off(8) - to make it a domestic budget



    Annual Household income - £21,000
    Annual Household spends - £38,000
    Annual addition to credit card - £7,000
    Current amount on credit card - £142,000

    Amount of spends that I have asked the missus to reduce, but she is fighting like heck and threatening all sorts of dire results if I just dont stfu - £40





    Nice analogy.


    Annual Household income - £21,000
    Annual Household spends - £38,000
    Annual addition to credit card - £7,000

    Where's the extra £10K coming from? Or should it be 17K on the credit card? (Genuine question, not trying to 'nit-pick' - is it a typo, or is the other £10K coming from somewhere else?)

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    several times on this forum I have asked the collective economic genii why the country is not run in the same way that I run my domestic budget
    i.e. try to match spending to income
    We had to go through Heath(Cameron) to get to Thatcher.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    several times on this forum I have asked the collective economic genii why the country is not run in the same way that I run my domestic budget
    i.e. try to match spending to income

    every time they put their fingers to the temple, stick there tongues out and make 'mental' circling manouvres
    well, maybe I am a loon, but who is staring down a cliff now eh ? dicksplats



    He's right dagnabbit.

    here is the US financial cliff, with a load of zeros taken off(8) - to make it a domestic budget



    Annual Household income - £21,000
    Annual Household spends - £38,000
    Annual addition to credit card - £7,000
    Current amount on credit card - £142,000

    Amount of spends that I have asked the missus to reduce, but she is fighting like heck and threatening all sorts of dire results if I just dont stfu - £40




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  • EternalOptimist
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    several times on this forum I have asked the collective economic genii why the country is not run in the same way that I run my domestic budget
    i.e. try to match spending to income

    every time they put their fingers to the temple, stick there tongues out and make 'mental' circling manouvres
    well, maybe I am a loon, but who is staring down a cliff now eh ? dicksplats



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  • NickFitz
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    At least some of them are aware that their process of government now seems like this:


    or this:


    to any normal person

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  • Zippy
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    And people say we have a rubbish system.

    I was in the US while they were trying to resolve the Bush/Gore election. Some bloke in a bar said 'bet you guys <meaning Brits - why would they care?> are laughing your asses off at this?' I said 'no. just find it sad it's come to this'.
    Same shit:, different day.

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  • NickFitz
    started a topic IRL Looney Tunes

    IRL Looney Tunes

    US heads off fiscal cliff… after which an anvil drops on their head

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