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House Prices Only Set To Fall By Maximum 20% In Total
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well seeing as the failed banks aren't lending money (in the same newspaper as fatblokes link) and people are losing their jobs daily (BBC news) and more and more companys are going out of business I think YOUR wrong and I'M right;)
What is your alternative?Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-
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islandannie wrote: »I,m not interested apart from the fact that I will get richer,
You all look after youselves ----if you can.
This is nice. I remember you "shaming" me, when I was articulating that people should look out for each other. You never really explained why. At the time, you were defending socialism, and so I thought you were calling me stupid for suggesting people should do it, not "the state".
Turns out that you are actually just pretty damned selfish.0 -
This is nice. I remember you "shaming" me, when I was articulating that people should look out for each other. You never really explained why. At the time, you were defending socialism, and so I thought you were calling me stupid for suggesting people should do it, not "the state".
Turns out that you are actually just pretty damned selfish.
Absolutely not selfish ,read my many other posts .
I have no problem helping the more unfortunate in society,infact i see it as a duty.Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-
Orwell.0 -
Call me a benevolent socialist and you will
get it right.Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-
Orwell.0 -
Okay - I'll take your word for it. It was this that left me confused.islandannie wrote: »Call me a benevolent socialist and you will
get it right.
Maybe it was ironic.I,m not interested apart from the fact that I will get richer
Reading your posts, you seem to flip between moral and ideological superiority and capitalist smugness. Sounds like champagne rather than benevolent socialism to me. Just calling it as I see it.0 -
Okay - I'll take your word for it. It was this that left me confused.
Maybe it was ironic.
Reading your posts, you seem to flip between moral and ideological superiority and capitalist smugness. Sounds like champagne rather than benevolent socialism to me. Just calling it as I see it.
Absolutely wrong the richer i get the more benevolent i can be.
Perhaps it,s an alien concept to you?Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein.
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”-
Orwell.0 -
islandannie wrote: »You misread.
I and many thousands of others are NOT btl.
I will decide when the market has reached it,s zenith,whether i am right or wrong is my calculation.
Surely you mean nadir, rather than zenith?!
(I reckon it's a good general idea only to use fancy words if you are sure you are using the right one. Otherwise you look a bit silly)...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
islandannie wrote: »
Good quality social Landlords like me should be applauded.
Which housing assoc. do you work for?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
bigfatbelly wrote: »They were giving FACTS and FIGURES. NOT speculation!
And the FACT is that property has dropped just 8.9% and they expect it drop another 12% next year when it will then reach its bottom. That makes a 20% reduction from the peak.
The expected drop isn't a fact, is it? It's an opinion.
And one I'm fairly sure is wrong. Not the drops next year, necessarily, but more that I don't believe the total drop peak to trough will be as little as 20%, nor do I think the bottom of the market will be reached in 2009....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
islandannie wrote: »Absolutely wrong the richer i get the more benevolent i can be.
Perhaps it,s an alien concept to you?
Not at all - neither as an individual donor, nor professionally, nor academically (I have a postgraduate qualification in charity funding).
Indeed I am delighted that, if I understand you correctly, you buck the UK trend, and presumably give a greater proportion of your income/wealth as you get richer? (It wouldn't be more benevolent to give a lesser proportion after all).
For all those US bashers out there, it is an interesting observation that while in the UK people give proportionally less as their income goes up, in the US it follows a "U"-shape. There are, of course, all sorts of differences; taxes, the role of the religious charities, and so on. But the habit of major philanthropy is much greater in the US than here in the UK.0
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