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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2014, 07:36 AM (274 Views) | |
| RJD | Sep 28 2014, 07:36 AM Post #1 |
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Prudence and Thrift
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Janet Daly Does Joe Public really want to see Big Nanny brought down to size and become more responsible for choices, solutions and the implementation of such for himself, his family and his community? Or is Big Nanny Bossy Statism where Politicians decide what is the right thing to do, how we should behave (note that the always wish to engineer us to fit in with their concepts of normality) for which we pay high rates of income and consumption taxes and borrow to fund? Joe Public needs to decide as this is the devising line for the next Parliament. Liam Halligan After all the tough talk For all the talk of austerity George Osborne has borrowed more in five years than Brown did in ten, so it is difficult to believe that he has the guts to tackle the most pressing problem of our time. Unfortunately there is no alternate (TINA) as Milliband will be shouted down by his Camp Followers if he dared to mention the word deficit or austerity or cuts, that is the real reason he left it out of his speech as these people only ever vote for more State spending and do not care where the money comes from. For me the only choice is which Party will offer to cut out the residual deficit during the next Parliament and seek to rebalance the economy away from consumption and more production, everything else is incidental. Test: Anyone recall a Usual on this forum that has ever shown any interest in reducing the deficit? Of ever showing any interest or understanding on how wealth is created? |
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| papasmurf | Sep 29 2014, 07:24 AM Post #41 |
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Try using a newspaper as reference in a dissertation or essay and see how far it gets you. The ONLY time I have been allowed to do that was during was doing a social science course part of which was applying the Systematic Scepticism test to newspaper articles. |
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| C-too | Sep 29 2014, 08:13 AM Post #42 |
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People are obviously influenced by the newspapers they read, why else would the papers be so politically biased? People tend to buy the papers that feed their own political bias making a mockery of the idea that they think for themselves. I stopped buying newspapers on anything like a regular basis back in the 1980s because they insult one's intelligence. IMO they are immature, irresponsible and damage our democracy. |
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| C-too | Sep 29 2014, 08:18 AM Post #43 |
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Honourable Member
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Do you consider a "living wage" to be too high? |
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| Rich | Sep 29 2014, 09:54 AM Post #44 |
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A newspaper is nothing more than the editorial view of the owner, I repeat.....VIEW, now just as you have a view as do we all, then by that logic, you too are spouting propaganda, what is inside each and every newspaper are reports put together by journalist from what they see and hear, one does not have to believe it but they are views, if you dismiss all views as propaganda then you will find yourself as the only one in the room listening to your very own propaganda, and I have no doubt that you will disagree with yourself. |
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| papasmurf | Sep 29 2014, 10:02 AM Post #45 |
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No quite, they are restricted in what they write, due to the owners wishes. There is no such thing as a free press in Britain. |
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| johnofgwent | Sep 29 2014, 10:11 AM Post #46 |
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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Ten minutes walking round this neck of the woods will reveal NO-ONE is currently DOING that. There MAY be people on some council payroll who SHOULD be , but no fucker IS. |
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| Stan Still | Sep 29 2014, 12:49 PM Post #47 |
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You know that I know that I suspect that millions of others know that as well, but we are treated like children by those who think they know better as we are too stupid to make a decision ourselves about anything, |
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