Britney's Piers
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I've been in a situation, once, 30 years ago, in a different recession, where I ran out of money and was faced with no food in the house, literally, for 5 days. As it happened I had been a customer of the bank for a long time and they gave me a temporary overdraft, even though it was the weekend. But had I not received that facility, I probably would have tried to find a loan shark, rather than not eat for 5 days. Even if it meant borrowing £20 for a week and paying back £60. So in a way I am glad pay day loan companies exist.
Are people who are borrowing from the payday loan companies nowadays doing it as a last resort? I wonder how many pay day loans are doled out to people who are feeding their shopping addiction. Do people really need the money, or are they just skint because they squandered what they earned rather than first paying for essentials then squandering whatever was left? It is actually possible to live on the dole, let alone the minimum wage. Just because people don't want to doesn't make it any less possible.
If you run out of food you could go to a charity food bank and get a parcel. Then arrange a crisis loan. I don't see anyone legitimate reason why anyone would need a payday loan with no other option available, unless they were a higher class of junkie who were morally against robbing people to pay for their addiction.
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And yet they borrowers are of sound of mind enough to be able to find the PayDay Loan Offices, call their telephone numbers, and hold jobs themselves.
What's worse than PayDay loans is Labour style nannying and claiming people can't be responsible for their own actions when it's likely to costs them a price in life.
Well the USA, canada and Australia must be nanny states since they have all clamped down on payday loans, but as usual light touch UK welcomes these shylocks and let's them operate with impunity, surprise surprise.
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Am I the only person who is totally uninterested is sport and hate the fact that money is being stolen from me to pay for it. It's like those F****ing aircraft carriers that are being built with out any plane to carry. :angry:
It's not even real sports.
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His reasons for not claiming benefits sounded like bull, probably more to do with his state of mind rather than a good reason. Having paid in for years he has 10000 times more entitlement to them than many.
Well they were sound, if he signed on he would have to sit around doing nothing. If he carried on writing/producing he would be labelled as a benefit fraudster and be up befor the beak. what a crazy system.
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Using the same argument, surely Westminster has no business telling them how to structure their own tax regimes?
Well then it appears they are a drain on us either way, and rightly should be cut off as far as I see. Bailing them out would at least make sense, in that the way other parts of the UK territory and mainland are a drain on the productive areas, but their current status as an exo-territory depriving the protector state of income amounts to sedition/treason.
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Well if you don't mind the UK having to find the money to keep these places going, tourism is badly hit at the mo, will mean job losses on the islands (there was already a kerfuffle when Chinese migrant labours were brought in to build a hotel!)
I'm sure the UK economy can support British Oversea Territories with an extra billion or so.
Why would taxpayers of the UK-proper be responsible for bailing them out, what is their constitutional status? They clearly are not obliged to pay anything into the UK exchequer so I don't see why we have a responsibility towards them apart from military defence.
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What can we do about this, email/call MPs? I'm not really sure how EDMs work but this issue needs exposing, and these pirate islands uncloaked not only as harboring tax evaders but also trillions of laundered money earned through organized crime and corrupt officials and tinpot dictators, and who knows what else.
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That this House notes the OECD and G20's identification of the role of tax havens by wealthy corporations in fuelling the global economic crisis from 2009 onwards; is alarmed by reports that US former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romnney is also using the Cayman Islands, a British territory, to avoid paying the same tax rate as other US citizens; is concerned about the continued use of tax havens by the top one per cent. in the US and UK to avoid paying the correct tax in their own country, particularly at a time when living standards are being squeezed and services lost for ordinary people in many Western economies; and calls on the Government to introduce urgent legislation to help close tax havens and increase transparency so that the very rich pay their fair share of tax in their respective countries and enable governments worldwide to invest more in jobs and growth.
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Three quarters of entrepreneurs don't look back? That's wonderful news!
Yes, surely that is the story here? I wonder how many of these failed businesses came out of the 2008/9 redundancies, I remember at the time people making business plans that were completely hare brained and would never last.
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Big freaking deal. Just by being a British citizen you are within the '1%' club of the world.
Folk need to get to grips with just how lucky they are in America and Britain compared with the rest of the world.
The very privileged of the western liberal democratic sphere [all of us] aren't suffering severe disease, malnutrition, prosecution for political or religious views, and definitely no war with the home territories.
That is because we have chosen to organize society to make better ourselves. Zimbabwe has malnutrition and torture today, but when it was Rhodesia it was called the breadbasket of Africa. So is this luck, or something else? If you offer your neighbour a job and he refuses and chooses instead to take drugs and live in squalor, should you feel lucky that you have made a better life for yourself and your family, and not complain at any hardships that come your way, so long as they do not compare with the problems of a drug addict?
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Who is to say the people, with an extra day to dedicate to whatever they wished, would not do something more productive with their free time than they would at work? Maybe a software developer currently churning out code for a business would invent the next great product in their additional day of rest?
I've read that the invention of the "weekend" created far more economic growth than a 6 day week as the entire leisure industry was created.
I find the lack of imagination of people who can't see any benefits of less time in an artificially lit cube depressing.
You are forgetting that most people are worker drones and cannot even self manage themselves with the free time they have now, let alone more of it.
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Prats. They'd have been better off on the NMW.
You can't even make a dishonest buck anymore.
"I'd do it legal. I learned too late that you need just as good a brain to make a crooked million as an honest million. These days you apply for a license to steal from the public. If I had my time again, I'd make sure I got that license first." - Lucky Luciano
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Er... this thread is about Greece. Why are some of you talking as though medicines are about to run out in the UK?
Probably because they will. The reliance on imports along with the just-in-time inventory strategy is just screaming out for trouble, whether it's economic problems or another haulier strike or spanish flu type pandemic.
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So they are going to profit from their overpriced assets, just one problem, who is going to buy it?
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I'm sick of hearing 'hard working families'. Just another sound-bite which sounds good. What about 'hard working singles'?
They would come under the designation of "cash cow".
I heard the interview on the radio yesterday about HB, and the BBC were propagandizing about families living on the street and so on. The expert being interviewed then claimed that families are disproportionately hit as they have more members, and that ethnic families are even more disproportionately hit because they have more children than whites. Errr, surely then they are being proportionately hit, or maybe he thinks singles should live in hostels while these massive ethnic families keep their 6 bedroom house.
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Supposedly that's the way out of this mess, we should all be out starting businesses. Rolling out Deborah Meaden now to tell us all how to do it.
*throws up*
Didn't she just take over her parents caravan park?
A better choice would be Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It (sell drugs from an ice cream van)
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It doesn't look great does it!
I think for the moment we're simply 'too big to fail' - the 'markets' (whoever they are!) know that if they bring down the UK that's it for the whole international financial system.
The very system they enrich themselves from and that represents their power and wealth - they're not going to risk those things lightly!
I think 2012 is going to be a very 'interesting' year, I've got no idea how things are going to play out this year and beyond, it's unchartered waters ahead that's for sure.
Maybe we'll end up doing OK, muddle along long enough that other countries fold first and when there's finally an inevitable international debt reset of some sort we'll come out the otherside smiling!
On the other hand.....
Who knows!
Happy 2012 everyone!!
The UK itself is not that special but it acts as a firewall for the USA, and the end of the USA really would be the end of the (present) system. This does not mean it will not happen, the USA elites are quite happy and willing to cannibalize the country and its system since their "true home" is Israel and once the US goes down they will get a flight out of dodge.
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OK, two people put some of their "property" into the same bag for a trip. They suffer amnesia along the way and forget who "owns" what. If property is based in reality then there should be some physical test to tell who owns what in the bag, which is...? -
Nope.
People build stuff. Fact.
They have a relationship with the thing they built. Fact.
This is property.
All factual.
What relationship? What is the test for this relationship, so we can sort out the amnesia couple's bag.
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Nope.
Nope.
Property is an observation, derived from reality. Whether our social structures recognise it or not is a seperate issue entirely.
An observation, but not derived from reality. Unless you want to say the same about the state.
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Our hamster will put up his paws and fight if I try to steal his sunflower seeds. Is that a 'social construct' or innate behaviour?
That is whatever stuff you can physically hold on to at any one time, which could be one definition of property, but not a very useful one.
OK, two people put some of their "property" into the same bag for a trip. They suffer amnesia along the way and forget who "owns" what. If property is based in reality then there should be some physical test to tell who owns what in the bag, which is...?
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Nope, stealing is wrong because it doesn't achieve it's stated goal.
There is this thing called reality, you see. Reality overrides all social constructs, renders all opinions moot.
Property is a social construct. Since the definition of theft relies on property it has to also be a construct, along with any opinions on it.
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I was just going to say that real prices are below the trend line, so when are they going to go back up. Then if you draw a line joining the peaks... and one for the troughs... those two lines diverge MASSIVELY. What does this MEAN? Depression? It has to mean something big because the oscillation can't keep growing in amplitude.
Just another symptom as the fiat system heads towards its end, getting more volatile as it reaches its endgame point, you are quite right this cannot and will not continue.
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Well isn't that what happened in WWII, and they were bought off by being offered a welfare/full employment state upon return. They couldn't possibly offer such a thing now so I agree conscription would be best avoided for their own sake.