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novazombie wrote: »Only trouble is supply is going to increase a lot from now on. Huge numbers of commercial properties are going to be turned into residential and this new scheme will encourage huge numbers of new builds.
Only "trouble" for Hamish, good news for homebuyers (and many people who benefit from people buying and moving house).
However, we may have just seen a glimmer of generosity from Big H.30 Year Challenge : To be 30 years older. Equity : Don't know, don't care much. Savings : That's asking for ridicule.0 -
you're right, you do come across as pathetic.More accurately: clumsily attempting to score cheap hits, failing, and looking pretty pathetic in the process.
sorry to spoil your fun but i haven't seen the state buy anyone a house, i've seen them pay their interest on their mortgage but not buy their house for them.There is nothing overly controversial about Graham's suggestion that the state shouldn't be buying houses for people. Protecting people from losing their home can be done far more cost effectively, and in ways that don't discourage many from returning to work.
do you want to try again?0 -
What an weid system we have where wages are falling in real terms, but benefits it appears are guaranteed to keep up with inflation. Where did it all go so wrong.0
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What an weid system we have where wages are falling in real terms, but benefits it appears are guaranteed to keep up with inflation. Where did it all go so wrong.
1200: Muriel, from Aberdeenshire, writes: "I'm 61, single, a professional lady (role), we've had no salary increase since 2009, fuel is now 140/litre for diesel, food prices creeping up and up, about to be made redundant (31st March), and now I'm struggling to find another job to pay my mortgage that runs until I'm 75. I have no pension and no savings now. How is this government/budget going to help people like me?"
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With that womans view and age, obviously a long time ago!0 -
SMI
To be fair it doesnt make a lot of economic sense to see someone made homeless for want of, say £400 a month, so that their house can be purchased by an investor who will then charge the state £900 a month for them to carry on living in it.0 -
1200: Muriel, from Aberdeenshire, writes: "I'm 61, single, a professional lady (role), we've had no salary increase since 2009, fuel is now 140/litre for diesel, food prices creeping up and up, about to be made redundant (31st March), and now I'm struggling to find another job to pay my mortgage that runs until I'm 75. I have no pension and no savings now. How is this government/budget going to help people like me?"
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With that womans view and age, obviously a long time ago!
Sounds like one of Conrads clients.0 -
Do you really think that your ability to pay a mortgage has an influence on the gene pool? I must have missed that one in the 'Origin of Species'.
If everything came down to an individual's 'worth' at any single point in time we would have been extinct long ago.
It's nothing to do with "worth", its the ability to function in modern society. And yes it does have an impact on the gene pool. In the past the strongest survived and passed on their genes, producing a stronger species. In modern society the weak are subsidised by the strong to the detriment of the gene pool.0 -
It's nothing to do with "worth", its the ability to function in modern society. And yes it does have an impact on the gene pool. In the past the strongest survived and passed on their genes, producing a stronger species. In modern society the weak are subsidised by the strong to the detriment of the gene pool.
It does appear that your average chav does appear to breed more than your average professional.0 -
Our future?In modern society the weak are subsidised by the strong to the detriment of the gene pool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSROlfR7WTo
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0 -
it would be pretty difficult to assess whether there was a link between genetics and income, not in any small part because if there was that means that the parents of the person with the "income genes" would also have the genes, and so would have higher income than average, and therefore would be able to buy their children a better start in life. would be pretty tricky to try to separate the environmental factors from the genetic.0
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