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who is terrified?
neas
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Not for their job?
But for britain? and our general future? Anyone think we are being royally shafted by our fiscal policy? and its not a house price crash we are seeing but a currency crash of epic proportions... our currency is crashing more than house prices!:eek:
But for britain? and our general future? Anyone think we are being royally shafted by our fiscal policy? and its not a house price crash we are seeing but a currency crash of epic proportions... our currency is crashing more than house prices!:eek:
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no sorry, not scared - there are good times and there are bad times.
we don't live in a perfect economy, i don't no any economy that is perfect and will not be impacted by this GLOBAL crisis.
we have to take it on the chin and deal with it.0 -
Me. I'm worried the media is going to destroy the country by pushing everyone into despair.Barclaycard 3800
Nothing to do but hibernate till spring
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Broken_hearted wrote: »Me. I'm worried the media is going to destroy the country by pushing everyone into despair.
I would agree with that comment 100%.0 -
Yup, me too.amandathepanda wrote: »I would agree with that comment 100%.0 -
I'm worried by it, but i guess we had it coming. We don't produce anything and our economy became based on selling each other our houses at ever increasing prices.
No empire lasts forever.0 -
Brokenhearted is bang on the money,the self fulfilling prophecy at work,the more its pushed down our throats from the media,the more we start to believe it!
Not everybody is having a horrendous time of it,there is actually good news out there, its just the media like to print it in a tiny column on page 112!!!
Its not controversial enough is it??0 -
It is not a great time.
But it is not the Nazi's bombing us.
The rationing and currency crisis of the austerity year.
The four day week of the 1970s.
Or even the 3million unemployed of the 1990s.
I am sure we will get through it.0 -
When all said and done, it's only money...
I'd be terrified if I lived in Zimbabwe - they have a life expectency of 37 there - just 37 years old ! That is terrifying.
:eek:
I'd be terrified if I lived in the Congo, or Somalia, or anywhere where human life is hanging on by a thread due to wars, poverty, disease...
:eek:
But I don't, I live in the UK, and okay there are economic problems at the moment and unemployment is rising - but my life expectency is still good, and we're not fighting a war in the streets, and I am able to eat and I am not about to get cholera from the water supply, and we have a welfare state which is not perfect but does at least try to help those in real need.
So terrified - no.
A bit brassed off - yes.
There is a difference....
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Not for their job?
But for britain? and our general future? Anyone think we are being royally shafted by our fiscal policy? and its not a house price crash we are seeing but a currency crash of epic proportions... our currency is crashing more than house prices!:eek:
Listen, if you have your health, you are fine. When your health is in jeopardy, it puts everything into perspective and going back 10 years, I'm speaking from experience.0 -
Not for their job?
But for britain? and our general future? Anyone think we are being royally shafted by our fiscal policy? and its not a house price crash we are seeing but a currency crash of epic proportions... our currency is crashing more than house prices!:eek:
Even if we get the projected 3 milloin unemployed, houses crash by 50%, etc.
IT DOESN'T MATTER.
We may have lost some of our 'standard of living', but who cares if we cant afford 50 inch plasmas or a new BWM. What matters is that everyone in the country has a roof over their head, food for their family and warmth in winter. This will continue.
Stop worrying about your maintaining your standard of living when most of the world doesnt even have one.0
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