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  • Aberdeenangarse
    Aberdeenangarse Posts: 1,262 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    It being a hypocrite or having double standards.

    Actually It's being a hypocrite or having double standards.But you know all about that MrAngry :mad:
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    They are very good at talking the talk on an Internet forum but when it comes to the real world they do the opposite.

    It being a hypocrite or having double standards.

    Yeah, true ..... makes all their posts worthless.
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    MrRee wrote: »
    Yeah, true ..... makes all their posts worthless.

    Almost all socialists are raging hypocrites.

    "From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs." How many of them actually walk the talk ?
    No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
  • CKhalvashi
    CKhalvashi Posts: 12,134 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I'm not sure why you think the banks should be working towards this they are private companies whose main aim is to make money.


    The government has some responsibility but what is needed is more property.

    However the gov decided to inflate house prices further, rather than sort the problem.

    What the country could invest in now, that would be the best option, is more social housing. Not under a Tory government, methinks!
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  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    MrRee wrote: »
    Yeah, true ..... makes all their posts worthless.
    That's why you can't take them seriously.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    edited 16 May 2014 at 6:04PM
    CKhalvashi wrote: »
    However the gov decided to inflate house prices further, rather than sort the problem.

    What the country could invest in now, that would be the best option, is more social housing. Not under a Tory government, methinks!



    I also think more social housing would be good but I would include Labour.


    I'm not sure they are trying to inflate house prices.
  • JencParker
    JencParker Posts: 983 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    I'm not sure why you think the banks should be working towards this they are private companies whose main aim is to make money.


    The government has some responsibility but what is needed is more property.

    And herein lies the biggest problem in our modern capitalist society. The aim of a private company / individual should not have money as its priority but the customers and service or product it is providing.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    JencParker wrote: »
    And herein lies the biggest problem in our modern capitalist society. The aim of a private company / individual should not have money as its priority but the customers and service or product it is providing.

    the best way of making profit is by providing the goods and services that people want

    the co-op has forgotten this truth and are declining

    many many companies fail to notice and go out of business for the benefit of all.
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    JencParker wrote: »
    And herein lies the biggest problem in our modern capitalist society. The aim of a private company / individual should not have money as its priority but the customers and service or product it is providing.

    That's an interesting suggestion. But it isn't going to help anyone if the concentration on those things, and the taking the eye off the ball money-wise, puts it out of business, which is a highly likely scenario.
    No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
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