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the wretched man is talking pounds, shilling and pence i think @neilh - not percentage of income which most of us would consider to be a fairer way of calculating gain or loss! @Lynne - agree completely - should probably have written that the lowest income households spend 100% of their income and have nothing left for contingency. Only fair? I wonder what planet our beloved leaders are from
Re The Millionaires Budget Another example of neo liberalism reared its ugly head again today - despite evidence to demonstate the failure of so called 'trickle down' to promote growth in the past three decades. Simply making the rich richer does nothing to make the rest of us rich. There is, in fact, strong evidence to show that the best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth ...
@burneside - your mother is non contributory because she is non productive. social economics is not only a minefield (as neilh says) but also doesn't have a soul. and is your mother, without wishing to disregard/dismiss her past productive contribution (to society), nursing (for example) other people's parents - which is what would have to happen if we don't have enough 'children' to do this ...
Only if you want local wages to be decreased as a result of employers getting 'free' labour from the unemployed.
here in the uk we are not replacing our population so what is your solution then @burneside ?
@wondering just to backtrack a bit - and just as a matter of interest, who do your childless friends think fly the airoplanes that take them places, clean the hotel rooms they stay in, serve in the restaurants they eat in, empty their dustbins, nurse them in hospital, and will eventually put them in their coffins and bury them are? i suggest these will be other people's children. personally i ...
notice i didnt bite @jools88 ! - was too busy yawning..
Oh dear Nelson - not only have you been publicly exposed and admonished as vindictive and spiteful but now you expose yourself as petty and ridiculous....
@Lynne Of course!!!
Congratulations to you and your husband Flo- and your friends - thats exactly how it should be but mostly isnt. I dont think anything I have suggested has dismissed men's contribution because I wasn't talking about men - I was referring to WOMEN and the money they (in my view, as I've already said) should receive to recognize their role as primary carers. You can give me anecdotes all day about ...
