Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
A friend just mailed me this

Dear Mr. Cameron,
Please find below our suggestion for fixing England '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/grandkids 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
6) Instead of stuffing around with the carbon emissions trading schemes that makes us pay for the major polluters, tell the greedy b*****ds to reduce their pollution emissions by 75% within 5 years or we shut them down.
It can't get any easier than that!
Great idea Tawi but 10 trillion pounds seems a lot more than the couple of hundred billion we gave the bankers.

The banks were dumb but us borrowers were just as dumb and the old maxim that you can't go wrong with bricks and mortar was dumb.

But here we are and if the poor sods that financed our couple of decades of insanity have to take a haircut, as they say in the modern parlance, then so be it.

A lot of those poor sods were savers in China and elsewhere in the far east, as well as ourselves in the west via our pension funds.

I would agree that there are a lot of pensioners that are living in awful conditions.

Regards the mad cow quote I guess they meant the foot and mouth epidemic, as back in the late 1980's early 90's they didn't have the ability to track individual animals, that came in during the last decade, I worked on those systems albeit to a very limited extent.