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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: millwall on 12 November 2011, 14:52:14
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Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK 's economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed
4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed
5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....
And there's your money back in duty/tax etc
It can't get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.
Also.....
Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.
This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.
Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.
Think about this (more points of contention):
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria?
And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
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Also;
Think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is time for us grumpy old folk of Britain to speak up!
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just get rid of cameron that will save money
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Excellent especially the bit about our old folk and prisoners :y
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I emailed my local MP about fuel prices recently - got a letter by way of reply on posh headed paper and a nice thick envelope (he could have saved money by just emailing me back) that read "High oil prices blah blah blah hold on the duty increase thanks to us blah blah blah not our fault blah blah blah suck it blah"
I paraphrase, naturally.
They're all a waste of space. Send 'em all to Gitmo.
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just get rid of cameron that will save money
And replace him with who ?...............I cant stand the bloke,but he is the slightly lesser of the three possible evils.
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Nigel Farage :y ;D
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Now your talking Cleggy. :y
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god help us all....we are going to hell in a hand cart now :y
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just get rid of cameron that will save money
And replace him with who ?...............I cant stand the bloke,but he is the slightly lesser of the three possible evils.
Nigel Farage :y ;D
Two very valid comments.
I'm all for emptying Westminster - but what (or whom) do we replace those ejected into the real world with.
No one should underestimate how difficult it will be to have a viable, committed and proficient government elected in the place of the present bloodsuckers.
It would be essential for an orderly transition and to prevent the country (and its institutions) sliding into disarray.
We have been so efficiently oppsed over by the present incumbents that the road to recovery – avoiding a new administrating practising a similar policy of blatant realpolitik - will be a long and rocky one.
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Now your talking Cleggy. :y
I honestly don't think he's up to it son - there seems to be a distinct lack of strategic awareness and absence in the charisma necessary within his character to rally a populace that has been ground into the soil of this nation by the present and past charlatans at Westminster.
Maybe it’s just me but I not feeling him - as our brothers would say.
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replace him with you albs you can do a better job
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How about an OOF cabinet. :D ;D ;D.
No mods tho' except maybe the Pink One, Minister of Sport :y :y
I bagsy Home Secretary, or Immigration, 70 million my arse. Need a good minister for Transport to ship the buggers out :y :y
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How about an OOF cabinet. :D ;D ;D.
No mods tho' except maybe the Pink One, Minister of Sport :y :y
I bagsy Home Secretary, or Immigration, 70 million my arse. Need a good minister for Transport to ship the buggers out :y :y
Love it..I now have a broad grin on my face :o :o :o
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Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK 's economy.
Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
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By my reckoning that would increase the national debt by a factor of ten. :o
Might be tricky to arrange just now. ;)
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The OP is obviously tongue in cheek, but by gum most of it hit a sympathetic nerve here! :(
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The OP is obviously tongue in cheek, but by gum most of it hit a sympathetic nerve here! :(
yes it was just a bit of light humor not meant to offend or upset in any way :y
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It's an old email circular ;) But a good plan in theory :y
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The OP is obviously tongue in cheek, but by gum most of it hit a sympathetic nerve here! :(
yes it was just a bit of light humor not meant to offend or upset in any way :y
I can't possibly see why anyone could be offended or upset by that tbh millwall unless your name is David Cameron of course & your day job has a SW1A 2AA Postcode? ;D
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The OP is obviously tongue in cheek, but by gum most of it hit a sympathetic nerve here! :(
yes it was just a bit of light humor not meant to offend or upset in any way :y
I can't possibly see why anyone could be offended or upset by that tbh millwall unless your name is David Cameron of course & your day job has a SW1A 2AA Postcode? ;D
;D ;D
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10,000,000 * £1,000,000 = £10,000,000,000,000 or about 14 times our current national debt or x7 (700%) of our GNP. This would make the PIIGS debt level look particularly attractive, with Greece at only a piffling 190%, an absolute snip for the international bond markets. :o :o :o :o :D :D :D :D
Forget the dream, the reality is that NONE of the Western world politicians have told you the bad news.... All of the Western nations create too little wealth and consume too much (with the exceptions of Norway, Switzerland and possibly Germany) (the difference is funded through Government and personal borrowing). Until everybody grasps and accepts that, then the living beyond our means train crash is going to continue to head at full speed straight at the buffers.....
Don't be fooled by the LibCons austerity measures as the deficit reductions is based on good economic growth as EVERY year they to intend to increase government spending, just not as fast (they hope) as tax revenues increase due to growth.
In the last few years our interest payments have gone from £6bn per year to £32bn this year (blame Labour for this for borrowing at the top of the economic cycle). This is more than the defense budget (hence 20,000 soldiers are to be sacked), this is why such large cuts have to made with increased Government spending. We are in a deadly debt / interest spiral, just a bit slower than the PIIGS. This is one of the reasons why I'm getting out of this country as I can see those big red buffers approaching as the train drivers (useless politicians) wind the throttle forever forward (feel good factor for voters and votes) so the train goes faster.... :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
With globalization the cost of business and our wages are going to have to meet the BRIC nations to be competitive (less the cost of transporting the goods to market costs). Wages are about $5000 (£2125) in China against about $45,000 (£28,000) in the UK. They are going to have to meet in about the middle or $25,000 (£15,000). Now £13,000 wage reduction would be suicidal for any political party, so how will it be achieved? By currency debasement, hence QE, low interest rates and high inflation, as this does the job. There will be big losers (savers) and winners people that have borrowed money (so they can still service their debts and stop a banking crisis and the cutting of the bankers bonuses). But it will mean our currency dropping against the dollar and therefore making commodities much more expensive, this is why we have 5-12% inflation which depite the BOE always telling us it is a blip, it will continue or accelerate, with food and energy always at the 12% end. So realistically all internationally traded commodities will have to at least double in price, so expect all internationally priced and traded goods, especially energy and food costs to at least double in real terms in the next 5 years.
By 2015, when the LibCons aim to eliminate the budget deficit (which of course we know will happen, as we know politicians, always tell the truth and deliver on their promises ::)) the UK deficit will have grown from the current 62% of GDP to about 100%, which is right on the edge of affordability, with interest payments around £70bn or the equivalent of the NHS budget.
All of this is against a backdrop of an aging population and big pension spending increases which includes the extra 1m vital services outreach co-ordinators that Labour employed all on their gold-plated pensions at an estimated extra cost of an extra £1000,0000,000,000 over the life of the pensions, and we will all want the very best treatment on the NHS for all of our old age ailments as we have paid NI, (including all those in the black economy: un-registered self-employed, travelers and health tourists (especially from Africa for AIDs treatment)), all of whom have paid NO NI and expect the very best entitlement, £100,000+ treatment costs per patient will do nicely.
At the moment if you are employed your REAL tax rate is between 45 and 70%, employer NI, employee NI, PAYE, VAT, council tax, insurance tax, fuel tax, alcohol tax, tobacco tax, energy tax, flight tax, TV tax, Road Tax etc etc..................................., (an increase in Government spending of 37% in 1997 to 52% in 2010 has to come from somewhere, it was (32% in 1991, but John major started this 1% per year Government spending increase, what do you think the fuel escalator he introduced was for?) (to me, once it is above 50% you are a serf or slave of the state, much like in feudal times, replace Lord of the manor with their castles and lavish life styles to that of the politicians and their white elephants, ditto), and this is only going to get worse, as the welfare budget continues to grow exponentially to keep those who prefer not to work at the lifestyle they aspire to (if it means having 12 kids, by 12 different men as a single parent then this is a good trade off for £500+ benefits per week with no-rent, council tax etc).
I have not even mentioned the long term elephant in the cupboard, which is food security. Many Asian / Middle Eastern countries including China are leasing / buying large areas of Africa and South America for their own food security. As we need to import 50% of our food, what is our Governments food security policy? ::) Mind you France is a net exporter of food, so I'm sure in a crisis, even if it meant they had to introduce rationing in their country to help us out they would. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
This is another reason I'm moving to the Ukraine, as I've got to think of my 15month old daughter. Ukraine is a net exporter of food (especially wheat and it is the world's biggest exporter of sunflower oil) and I'm going to have my own small holding for food security.
Sorry to be so gloomy, but to be foretold is to be for-armed. It is up to all of you to decide on your on strategy. :y :y :y
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i would stop giving aid to third world countries. cut the amount of goods imported here. stop giving child benefits to families, if you can't support a child don't have one. use the armed forces to patrol the borders searching every lorry or container coming in the country, refuse entry for anyone with a criminal record or a trade. and stop benefits for anyone who can work but won't work.
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Rods2, Do you have trouble sleeping? ;D ;D ;D
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i would stop giving aid to third world countries. cut the amount of goods imported here. stop giving child benefits to families, if you can't support a child don't have one. use the armed forces to patrol the borders searching every lorry or container coming in the country, refuse entry for anyone with a criminal record or a trade. and stop benefits for anyone who can work but won't work.
:y :y :y :y you get my vote
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Rods2 - another excellent post. :y
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another long post you mean fell asleep half way