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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: ®i©ardo
Date: Aug 31, 2008 03:52

Arthur Figgis wrote:
> ®i©ardo wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Where did *I* say you did say that he said it?
>
>
>
Perhaps by implication as despite having made no mention of Callaghan, I
was told:

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

...which we all knew, of course.

;-)

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