> ®i©ardo wrote:
>

>> John Wright wrote:

>>> mymail@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

>>>> ®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?"

>
> Darling has now admitted that there is a crisis, and that it is worse
> than any previous crisis still within (reasonable) living memory.
>
> But apparently, it isn't the fault of the party that has been in charge
> for the past eleven years and four months. Perhaps he and von Braun will
> get Blair back on TV to blame it on the forces of conservatism.