> Arthur Figgis wrote:

>> ®i©ardo wrote:

>>> 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?"

>>
>> A political "quote" not taken out of context this time, as Callaghan
>> didn't actually say it - it was The Sun wot said it.
>>

>
> But, they weren't wrong, were they? Hang on, where did *I* say that
> Callaghan said those words?