for goodness sakeour government is talking about propping up Landrover which was bought 6 weeks ago by a Chinese company... why not spend that money on offering retraining to people who want to move from that industry to something else?
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Prof UnderCover evitable,
Fri 19 Dec 2008, 16:32,
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didn't you know? in a "mature economy" there's no manual labour or manufacturing...we can all enjoy the utopia of selling eachother insurance and running insurance call centres
I might add that I think that's all kakking bullshit but I'm just a peon
(I might add that I think that's all kakking bullshit but I'm just a peon
discomeats This canoe,
Fri 19 Dec 2008, 16:35,
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yeahthank fuck we don't make anything any more ... could you imagine? If we made things? If we were remotely self sufficient in terms of food or energy?
*shudders*
just keep throwing money at the banks and hope they don't find someone better to live.
(*shudders*
just keep throwing money at the banks and hope they don't find someone better to live.
Prof UnderCover evitable,
Fri 19 Dec 2008, 16:38,
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why, we'd be like those barbaric stone age countries!they already got somewhere, and providing that somewhere can screw the life out of the folk who built it up without consequence I can well imagine them going there en masse.
( discomeats This canoe,
Fri 19 Dec 2008, 16:40,
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