1 Pixel = 1 million Dollars

Generali

http://i.imgur.com/C5hAo.gif

An interesting way to look at the US bailouts and subsidies of the financial system.

I really don't understand why people aren't angrier about this. You will spend the rest of your lives paying this off and you don't care enough even to look beyond voting for the same people that let this happen to you!

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/C5hAo.gif

An interesting way to look at the US bailouts and subsidies of the financial system.

I really don't understand why people aren't angrier about this. You will spend the rest of your lives paying this off and you don't care enough even to look beyond voting for the same people that let this happen to you!

Gen, besides being angry, and I don't know about anyone else, but I am...or I was I've not changed my mind, more burned through it....I don't really see what we can do about it....

I love things like that though ...they give the anger I have left something to jump up and down about and the pomposity in me scale to sit down and realise how...insignificant any impact or opinion of mine is.

wageslave

I have always felt pixels were important

HammerSmashedFace

I feel like a broken record, after saying a million and one times that the crap of the last 2 years isn't over, hell, it's hardly begun. The US has a very high chance of being bust within a decade, and is absolute certainty within 3 decades.

lostinrates

HammerSmashedFace wrote: »

I feel like a broken record, after saying a million and one times that the crap of the last 2 years isn't over, hell, it's hardly begun. The US has a very high chance of being bust within a decade, and is absolute certainty within 3 decades.

How does a thank look inrelation to other thanks on a chart like generali's?

This weird stagnant feeling around prices/finances...does feel almost tangibly tense now. I find people who have NEVER spoken about finances are now seeming taught and talking about them to me. the divide between my parents generation and my own has never seemed so big to me as recently.

baileysbattlebus

Generali wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/C5hAo.gif

An interesting way to look at the US bailouts and subsidies of the financial system.

I really don't understand why people aren't angrier about this. You will spend the rest of your lives paying this off and you don't care enough even to look beyond voting for the same people that let this happen to you![/QUOTE

I think most people are very angry about it - I am. But I don't particularly blame the gov't for the collapse in the financial system. The gov't picked up and ran with something set in motion by a different gov't. And to tbh I can't see any of the parties having done much any different - up to the crisis. There may or may not have been a gov't surplus and there may or may not have been a bailout, but the crisis would have happened regardless.

It's easy for parties to say how different it would have been if they had been in power - or how they would have handled the crisis differently and how they will deal with the deficit.

Well now is their chance.

Personally I am angry at the banks and financial institutions more than gov't.

Neither of the 2 main parties inspire me with confidence - for me it's who will be the lesser of 2 evils - and I have yet to make a decision - maybe the up coming budget will help me make my mind up. Nothing else has up to now.

elona

I'm getting the same feeling I had just before the "winter of discontent" with the 3 day weeks , power brownouts, shortages of essential goods and a general feeling that things were falling to bits around us.

Just wish we could get our house sold and get moved to one that is more fuel efficient and easier to run.

HammerSmashedFace

elona wrote: »

I'm getting the same feeling I had just before the "winter of discontent" with the 3 day weeks , power brownouts, shortages of essential goods and a general feeling that things were falling to bits around us.

Just wish we could get our house sold and get moved to one that is more fuel efficient and easier to run.

I wish you all the luck, at least you are being realistic and facing the problems head on, which always has a better outcome than burying your head in the sand, it means at the very least you are prepared.

Graham_Devon

What strikes me as sickening is the bankers bonuses on that website. That's a HUGE chunk.

elona

Thanks for the good wishes HammerSmashedFace.

We have already got a much more fuel efficient and practical family (and only) car. The company car has gone and have persuaded DH to take his final salary pension early while it is both - still around- and still a good deal for us.

With less tax to pay, no NI or AVCs or pension contributions to pay - we don't seem to be any worse off so far, fingers crossed.

BabyBoomers "know" that eventually the music stops and you have to pay the bill as they have lived through it. (At least the sensible ones do.)

JP45

Generali wrote: »

I really don't understand why people aren't angrier about this. You will spend the rest of your lives paying this off and you don't care enough even to look beyond voting for the same people that let this happen to you!

I'm as angry as ever but (like others) my anger is largely directed towards the bankers.

As for "voting for the same people that let this happen to you", that seems to imply that had we had a Tory government for the past 12 years then we could have somehow escaped the crisis.

Much as I detest Gordon Brown and long to be rid of him, I simply cannot believe that we'd have avoided this mess - largely of the bankers' making - under the Tories.

I accept that we would almost certainly have entered the crisis with a lower deficit but we'd still have been faced with the cost of bailing out the banks and the impact of the global recession. There's no reason to believe that the UK financial regulatory regime would have been any tougher or more effective under the Tories.
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