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Forum: General Chat 10-12-2011, 21:36

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling One is never too old to waste one's time.;) The way I interpret what he wrote is that in any labour/management dispute, or in any discussion of why British industry is, more or less, no more, it is...

Forum: General Chat 10-12-2011, 20:33

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Badly written, yes. Hardly puctuated, most definitely. Twaddle, hardly.

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 22:31

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Yup ... don't think we are ever going to agree on this one ... oh well, there'll be other times;):D

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 21:38

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling The system that is flawed is not the welfare system ... it is the tax system ... you mention that the welfare system is "funded by peoples' hard earned taxes" ... but it is not the taxes of all the...

Forum: General Chat 09-12-2011, 20:20

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling And yet, there is an argument to be made that it is not benefits that are too high, but wages that are too low. Or, that too many of the well-paid industrial jobs have been exported ... or full time...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 18:51

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Oh, so what you are saying is that tory economic policy is, to use your own words: "a load of crap." Mmmm .... I think I can agree with this 100%:rolleyes:

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 18:21

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Once we remove the cliches, we are left with "Its marvelous ... instead of ..." :confused: Not much to comment on, is there?

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 18:17

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling I can certainly agree with this:D ... but what, exactly or close to it, does it mean?

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 17:54

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling "In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others become less rich the poor in all probability would become still...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 16:47

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling I don't think that I would go as far as "deliberate policy" ... don't think tories are smart enough, or stupid enough for that.:rolleyes:;) I do think that a tacit policy of throwing the poor to the...

Forum: General Chat 08-12-2011, 15:18

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling "Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.";)

Forum: General Chat 06-12-2011, 17:58

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Right on, bud. You got it in one. When I was a lad ... back in the hoss and cart days, serious;) ... and lived on Rishton Rd., every afternoon at knocking off time, you could see them in their...

Forum: General Chat 06-12-2011, 17:46

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling I know where you are coming from hon ... same generation as me ... I think that we have a stronger sense of fair play, or, maybe of what is right and what isn't. And a strong work ethic, any work:...

Forum: General Chat 06-12-2011, 15:32

Replies: 165 Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling Views: 4,732 Posted By Eric Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling What usually pees me off with some of the posts on here is happening again. Blaming the poor and the powerless for their poverty. "Welfare culture" ... bs ... it doesn't exist; it's created by a...

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