Dear chancellor

[Rich H]

Dear Chancellor

Yesterday it rained. The impact on the micro-economy of my business is that while I paid for staff for the half the day, the income was zero and the opportunity cost compounds the effect to create a significant loss. Given the associated reduction in fluidity, my share value dropped sharply in overnight arguments with her indoors.

Please send me a big wad of cash. I promise not to spend it on big bonuses. Honest.

Love, Rich x

[Dave_L]

Very good Rich!!!!

I have a feelin' that your request would be filed in "file 13" or more commonly known as the waste bin!

[lutonlagerlout]

i personally think that if they(politicians) wanted capitalism and globalism, and a free market
then, lets let the thing play itself out,whatever the consequences for banks and politicians

i think it was aristotle that said that anarchy must follow democracy.
guys like us will be ok as we can DO stuff that is useful in a bank free world
its the guys driving a desk that may have a problem

i hope it doesn't come to this ,but we ( as a nation) reap what we sow

LLL

[IanMelb]

its the guys driving a desk that may have a problem

Gulp !

[lutonlagerlout]

you'll be alright Ian you got skills
LLL

[Dave_L]

its the guys driving a desk that may have a problem

Indeed Tony - they've had it too good for far too long in my opinion.

2008 will be good for us; I do hope 2009 will be as good but I'm not holding my breath.........

[Tony McC]

On R4's The News Quiz tonight (catch the repeat tomorrow at noon) one of the panellists summed it up quite succinctly: the banks have lost all their money, so we give them a big handful of ours in order that they can lend it back to us and charge us interest.

[Dave_L]

I never had you down as a R4 listener Tony!

[seanandruby]

if you like the news its a good channel