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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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actually, the cuts have been fucking deep.Gove is a prick. Ken Clarke I have a lot of time for.
And Cameron said they would be socially progressive. Apart from gay marriage, not a sign of progressiveness.
Same old Tories. And wankers like you who have no fucking idea about how the cuts have affected real life are cretins. Osborne has caused a double dip. The economy is worse now than when the Tories took over, that in itself is fucking pathetic.
Now shit off and get cockAIDS.
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I agree. They should tear down the invasion of civil liberties.They should tear down the culture of over the top health and safety and political correctness.
They should tear down the drug laws. The alcohol laws.
They should get out of Afghanistan.
They should disestablish the CoE.
They should tear down the immigration laws that mean worthless parasites get active preference over intelligent or skilled foerigners.
They should tear down the system that prevents nonacademic pupils from early specialisation in vocational areas
But they should also lock more people up who deserve it.
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Having had a few jobs with a very real risk of serious injury or even death, I am all in favour of health and safety regulations.It's poor implementation of them that gets bad press.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:49,
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Indeed.Rational, discretionary , reason based health and safety laws are the hallmark of a civilized society.
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Osbourne has not caused the double dip. The media has constanly talked down the economy..destroying confidence. Other nations, such as the US, have actively spent more money and they're even more buggered than we are.
Also, all these cuts didn't affect the Tories poll rating until the omnishambles, and then pretty much all the polling drop was caused by the potential for tax rises which is what most of the public hate more than cuts.
lastly, employment is slowly on the up, so this must be some dip, eh?
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Freefair - you're a bright ladI'd suggest that you look up the WPA.
In summary, it was a very effective effort by FDR to inject public sector money into the US in the '30's. Unfortuately it was pissed up the wall in many states by your sort of abrogated government.
The states that used it properly used it well. A lot of our chemical products still come from Louisiana as a result of Huey P Long investing wisely.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:52,
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Interstinly, just yesterday I was researching into the New Deal, and then in watched..the Keynes episode of Masters of Money. I may lean to the monetarist side, but by god he was a great man.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again..My maths teacher did BSc Maths and Economics at Leeds in the late 80's to early 90s. I Wonder If you knew him?
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His/her name?If I don't know them. Lighty might.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 21:02,
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We can't have another FDRThere's a whole lot of reasons but the main one is that we simply don't have a flexible enough system, unconstrained by dogma, to accept that degree of expansion.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 21:01,
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They'll get deeperAnd whichever shade of blue assumes control when this lot gives up will have no alternative but to keep cutting.
There is no precedent for where we are. Whatever you think is the answer will be wrong, because there isn't an answer.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:41,
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The cuts which touch me were made by the previous government.(
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