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Economic Living Is The Exercise

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  • M4RT1N
    M4RT1N Posts: 1,500 Forumite
    I cannot quote heol as he is on ignore but his statement

    "If the government spent less billions on building battleships and bombs and redirected the money into health and community services the world would be a better place."

    is quite ridiculous.

    Russia is looking to annex anyone they can get their hands on at the moment. We would be unprotected. We would be Russian, or Argentinian.

    Most invasions are based on lies or have you forgot about the WOMD lie

    Or the carp we were told about Libia click on the link and have a read and then tell me who is living under a dictatorship

    16 Things Libya Will Never See Again

    By Saya on October 24, 2011 in News
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    • There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
    • There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.
    • Having a home considered a human right in Libya.
    • All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
    • Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.
    • Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.
    • If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need, the government funds them to go abroad, for it is not only paid for, but they get a U.S.$2,300/month for accommodation and car allowance.
    • If a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidizes 50 percent of the price.
    • The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
    • Libya has no external debt and its reserves amounting to $150 billion are now frozen globally.
    • If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession, as if he or she is employed, until employment is found.
    • A portion of every Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
    • A mother who gives birth to a child receive U.S.$5,000.
    • 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $0.15.
    • 25 percent of Libyans have a university degree.
    • Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Manmade River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.


    Libya has the highest living standard in Africa. The "United Nations Development Program (UNDP) confirms that the country has excellent prospects for achieving United Nations development goals by 2015.




    http://libyasos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/libya-price-of-freedom-highest-standard.html
  • Bikertov
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    So would you rather a state run by our Comrades where we are all equal (except for them that rule the show) to the point that we are all low paid.

    This would be because there would be no private enterprise, everyone would work for the inefficient state that does not know the meaning of the word "profit", we would all pay high taxes on our low wages to support it all, we would be uncompetitive in the world so no one would buy from us and would be bankrupt within a generation.

    Not saying the Tories are perfect, but the alternative is unthinkable.
  • karlie88
    karlie88 Posts: 9,114 Forumite
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  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    davemorton wrote: »
    Evening, just back from a fab tea at TM's. Dropped ChrisV off, all full, and nearly time for bed.
    She didnt open any fizz though, must have waited till we left.....so mean!!

    Go and crush some apples:rotfl:
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    To be is to do. Sartre
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  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Go and crush some apples:rotfl:

    I did

    5 gallon of cyder just getting ready to be created into perfection!
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    Good luck with the healthy eating i need to join you I have gained three stone since my diagnosis. The first stone was me consoling myself I think and the next two stone were because I was constantly starving on my steroids.

    *cough cough champagne cough*
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    To be is to do. Sartre
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  • karlie88 wrote: »
    Forgot to add boxing too.

    Mourinho vs. Wenger.

    :D

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    really looking forward to going to see wales play at the millenium,no idea about rubgy but atmosphere will be great and i love cardiff.:D
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 14,562 Forumite
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    Before this descends into argument (and we are already very close with NHS, politics, war and immigration raised) please can I ask we move on. The internet is a big place with lots of information available on all topics for all tastes and interests ...it does not all have to be discussed or quoted on here. Google can help ;).

    It will not end well and we have only just got back to some sense of glitch normality ...

    Many thanks

    Anon
  • Bikertov
    Bikertov Posts: 1,598 Forumite
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    On, and while we are on the "fat cat bankers", (who for the record I do believe have taken the p... and should be made responsible for their actions) ...

    No one ever seems to say a bad word about their football playing counterparts.

    They are also paid an obscene amount of money, they also often blow it on drink, drugs and fast cars and there is massive corruption all the way to the top (ie FIFA the World Cup etc). You all pay fortunes to watch these overpaid kids play, you pay fortunes to wear the cheap tacky replica kits, you pay fortunes to see them on Sky TV etc. The violence in the 70's and 80's though thankfully less so now, was a disgrace, and there is still rife racism on and off the pitch.

    But oh no, football is idolised as "the Beautiful Game" of the working class that cannot have a bad word said about it.
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