a biographical note...

John_Pierpoint

Government import duties on Chinese made cement mixers?
[Not to raise revenue to be spent trying to build the world's tallest towers you understand; strictly to try to make work for unemployable day labourers]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Towers

"Mine is bigger than yours?"

TruckerT

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

If you managed to live through the Cuban missile crisis without being worried, but are now scared by "the banks" then I advise keeping the paper bag over your head.

I didn't say I wasn't 'worried' by the threat of Nuclear Oblivion - I said I trusted the Western Capitalist Governments to deal with it effectively

Not so now, with 'The Banks' being the aggressors - the entire debate about bailing out the euro, and therefore the rest of the world as we know it, always starts with the need to 're-capitalise' the banks, or some other euphemism for simply giving them even more money than they have already taken from us

TruckerT

bendix

TruckerT wrote: »

... I was born in 1949, and grew up on an increasingly levelling playing field - the two world wars and the great depression seemed to dilute the great divide between political and economic 'classes'

I was lucky enough to go to a very good grammar school, but I dropped out after 'O' Levels - during my career, I have been actively involved in Trade Unions, but for most of my working life, I was self-employed, and an occasional employer. Although I have never voted for them, I generally prefer Tory politicians (they simply have more fun)

Until now, I have never felt 'threatened' by world events - even during the Cold War, and the threat of Nuclear Oblivion, I was confident that our leaders would find a way through

But now I am scared!

There is now a 'common enemy' - it is 'The Banks' - they are Dictators (ie they dictate the way in which we live) - Gaddafi was a dictator for 43 years or so, and eventually he was bombed out by NATO

All talk of recession, growth, quantitative easing etc etc is whistling into the wind - whatever happens in the foreseeable future will be decided by The Banks

Time to wake up

TruckerT

If you were born in 1949, that makes you old enough to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself why you need to post such drivel on a public forum and embarass yourself.

Seriously . . what is wrong with people?

bendix

TruckerT wrote: »

I didn't say I wasn't 'worried' by the threat of Nuclear Oblivion - I said I trusted the Western Capitalist Governments to deal with it effectively

Not so now, with 'The Banks' being the aggressors - the entire debate about bailing out the euro, and therefore the rest of the world as we know it, always starts with the need to 're-capitalise' the banks, or some other euphemism for simply giving them even more money than they have already taken from us

TruckerT

Do you know what 'recapitilise' means? You seem to have this childish notion that we hand them money on a plate and pat their heads. We don't. In exchange for giving them more money, we take on ownership.

And how, exactly, have the banks 'taken money from us'. Please explain in simple terms.

sennypijama

Thrugelmir wrote: »

The USA is a highly unequal society. Where people are left to fend for themselves.

Apart from the fact that you are completely wrong about people in the USA being left to fend for themselves, do you not think that the UK is a highly unequal society?

Because it is ..

John_Pierpoint

TruckerT wrote: »

I didn't say I wasn't 'worried' by the threat of Nuclear Oblivion - I said I trusted the Western Capitalist Governments to deal with it effectively

Not so now, with 'The Banks' being the aggressors - the entire debate about bailing out the euro, and therefore the rest of the world as we know it, always starts with the need to 're-capitalise' the banks, or some other euphemism for simply giving them even more money than they have already taken from us

TruckerT

I was in New York, full of "there is a bomb shelter in this building" notices, shortly after the missile crisis.
"Bl00dy Yanks, never been bombed - no bottle" was my mental reaction.

This economic crisis has the potential to do more damage than exploding the odd nuclear bomb. Have we forgotten the North of Japan already.

sennypijama

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I was in New York, full of "there is a bomb shelter in this building" notices, shortly after the missile crisis.
"Bl00dy Yanks, never been bombed - no bottle" was my mental reaction.

It must have come as an enormous relief to you when that changed, then.

John_Pierpoint

Wot the Yanks have found their bottle?

What I was trying to say was: The tsunami and nuclear melt down in Japan was not exactly the end of civilization as they know it.
The damage that can be done by this double dip recession globally could be far more devastating. Economics students will be able to pick this one up on the future time lines, more than any other event since WW2.

The pen is truly mightier than the sword or to put it in modern speak. Fraud, greed and the printing press is more powerful than acts of terrorism.

sheffield_lad

People continue to blame the banks, when are we the borrowers who spent next weeks pay packets today going to hold our hands up and say yep we are also to blame?

The reason we blame banks is since the credit crunch we can't borrow the same as before, we have finaly have to spend what we have not what we can borrow.

StevieJ

howee wrote: »

People continue to blame the banks, when are we the borrowers who spent next weeks pay packets today going to hold our hands up and say yep we are also to blame?

The reason we blame banks is since the credit crunch we can't borrow the same as before, we have finaly have to spend what we have not what we can borrow.

But I didn't so can I blame the banks?