Re: 'Our' Parliamentarians
Originally Posted by
Uncle Joe
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Can't be any worse than we've already got, when the greedy elite, having made a huge bassett of our economy are then rewarded with even more excessive bonuses, which are then exported into tax havens.
For a man of the world I cannot imagine you actually believe that first statement..
But yes I agree that the elite get away with too much for doing too little and it needs to be curtailed as far as possible, but greed is a human trait and spread evenly across the political divide....as you know full well even in an equal society, some are always going to be more equal than others....
Originally Posted by
Wrinkly
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Wow I have just got back from holiday and find this thread has moved forward quite a way.
A few points I would like to make, all people who own and set up big businesses are not all capitalist's.
Somebody said it was capitalists that paid the countries way, not true, it is the tax payers, most capitalists avoid tax wherever possible.
What has the monarchy ever do for me, they robbed me of my father, my home, and gave my mother absolutely nothing at the age of 28 when she was left with a child and no home and no pension.
this is what she got from the government, a scroll with a photocopied signature from the king.
So that is why I am not a royalist.
Yes we do need another Oliver Cromwell, a great man who showed the nation that they don't have to put up with things as they are we can change them if we wish.
I'm afraid you're wrong Arthur, because we desperately need the capitalists, that set up the businesses, that allow the workers to earn a wage, and pay the taxes that go pay the benefits and the country's other bills.
Without the capitalist entrepreneurs, who sometimes risk everything they own and have worked for to take the chance of setting up a new business, that produces goods and provides employment, there would have been no industrial revolution, no work and no welfare state for anyone.
Whilst I agree some are better than others, I say thank goodness for the capitalists and the wealth creators, were it not for such people we'd all still be living in servitude to the Lord of the Manor ...