Where to cut?

Rather jumping on a worn topic here, but it’s till puzzling me. So far it would seem that despite all the hue and cry the actual total government spending is still increasing. Which from my own micro economic experience doesn’t tend to be a good way to get out of debt (though I’m told that apparently if your a government you can just borrow indefinitely and it’s all fine). The TPA observe that there’s only two ways for the government to reduce the deficit either spend less or tax us more so we spend less (Government cuts, or cuts for … Continue reading

Ireland a followup

Further to yesterdays post on the passing of the Irish state, a couple of posts elsewhere that are worth reading on the subject. Archbishop Cranmer ponders if Gerry Adams might yet be Taoiseach Andrew Neil – posits that the Irish bail out may just be the start of things to come 0-1

Sticking it to the bankers

Via Captain Ranty a nice, simple risk free way to stick it to the bankers and smash the system. We all just need to withdraw all of our funds from the banks on the same day the 7th December, we can put it all back the very next day but just for one day leave nothing in the bank it will cause chaos and Eric Cantona is supporting it – what more reason do you need? As Captain Ranty observers you don’t even need to take out all of your money, leave in enough to pay any bills due in … Continue reading