> John Wright wrote:

>> mymail@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

>>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:57:18 +0100, ®i©ardo nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>

>>>> Given my impressive tax bill, and, given that I very rarely drink
>>>> and I don't smoke, I don't have a 42" flat panel TV, my car is many
>>>> years old and my computer is one that I built myself, whilst my
>>>> mobile 'phone is only good for telephone calls, it always amuses me
>>>> to see that many of those with no job and no visible means of
>>>> support and claiming poverty seem to be far more materialistically
>>>> endowed than I am.

>>> Recent governments in this country have tightened up the benefits
>>> system so much it is impossible for anyone to be living the good life
>>> whilst on benefits unless of course they are on the fiddle

>>>> If none of this is anything to do with the taxation of one to fund
>>>> another,

>>> But this situation is the same throughout the world its alright Obama
>>> shouting his head of in Denver the other night
>>> but if the majority of American people vote him into the white
>>> house then its God help them .

>>
>> The fact remains that Bill Clinton left a huge budget surplus that
>> George W. Bush has reversed to a massive deficit. This (as my American
>> friends tell me) always happens - the democrats build America up, the
>> Republicans knock it down again.
>>

>
> Whereas in the UK it was the Tories who built up the surpluses and the
> Labour Party who went for even bigger levels of indebtedness than
> previously known. I wonder if the IMF will get involved again?
>
> "Crisis, what crisis?"