Awesome rant!!! - Politics?

[haggistini]

Revived this email today ... Spot on!

> Is this the answer?
> Dear Mr. Cameron,
> Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK's economy.
>
> Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned
> bonuses, use the following plan.
>
> You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
>
> There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
>
> Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
>
> 1) They MUST retire.
> Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed
>
> 2) They MUST buy a new British car.
> Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed
>
> 3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
> Housing Crisis fixed
>
> 4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university -
> Crime rate fixed
>
> 5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....
> And there's your money back in duty/tax etc
>
> It can't get any easier than that!
>
> P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and
> second home allowances
>
> If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.
>
> Also………..
> Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home.
>
> This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
>
> They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd
> receive money instead of paying it out.
>
> They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed
> assistance.
>
> Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
>
> A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.
>
> They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
>
> They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.
>
> Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request.
>
> Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.
>
> Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.
>
> There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that
> would be strictly adhered to.
>
> The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once
> a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.
>
> Think about this (more points of contention):
>
> COWS
> Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could
> track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the
> county of Cumbria?
>
> And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants
> wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow

[lutonlagerlout]

haggi for PM!

if only it were that simple haggi
1 thing that staggers me is the cost of keeping prisoners in jail
see here for 2008 figures
surely its cheaper just to give them their smack on prescription (and believe me most in jail are junkies)which would cost less than £50 a week
old people's homes are the same ,my nan's was £1250 per week till her money ran out then they shifted her to something akin to birkenhau
she could have stayed in a 4 star hotel full board for that kind of money
the biggest issue is the welfare state and low investment in education and health
the countries that invest most in their citizens health and education are generally the best places to live
switzerland canada germany norway france etc
on the other hand the countries that like to get involved militarily wise i.e. us and the yanks have little to spend on such frivolities as decent homes for old folk

i wonder how much money we have spent in libya getting rid of mad dog ,when the chances are in 6 months all we have done is created another nutter
£1.5 million for 6 months soon adds up to nearly quarter of a billion getting r id of a dictator tony blair was shaking hands with less than 10 years ago
go figure
LLL :O

[haggistini]

Top return rant LLL ! Are we heading for a revolution ? Oops key word! The Feds be kicking my door in in an hour

:laugh:

[London Stone Paving]

I agree about giving the smack on prescription. At least that way we can massively reduce all the petty crime and robbery.

I'm also sick and tired of councils behaving like businesses. They are supposed to be there to serve us, not to stick cameras in our bins and employ armies of traffic wardens to stitch us whenever possibble.

I also think this country has some major issues with planning laws. I am in France at the minute and you drive into these small towns and they have retained there culture and identities, unlike here where they just smash up tesco's left right and centre ripping the hearts out of communities. We have followed the Amercian route and I think the European way is actually a bit better. People seem a lot more chilled and less stressed.

One more thing as well, we need to cut the public service right back. All the tax we pay is to finance this massive public service we have. Cut the public service right back, reduce tax and the result is people will have more money in there pockets. Money which will be spent giving the economy and the private sector a massive boost, creating jobs and growth.

Oh yeh and lets a build a load more prisons and start punishing all these criminals who are getting away with murder day in day out