Austerity has hardened the nation's heart

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You seem awfully sure of yourself typing in all caps there bro. What's the source of this stubborn certainty?


Name one modern nation with a robust economy that does not have a progressive tax system. Its not just about "fairness". Its about what works. The economy falters when all the wealth floats to the top and there is no longer an incentive for the wealthy to invest in beneficial things because real wages aren't rising and the rate of large scale technological advance has stagnated.


This is just total propaganda. Private charity is less effective than government programs because the income stream is unreliable. It is also miniscule compared to what government typically provides.

He happens to be right Look what happened in German during the 1920s when they started printing money. It destroyed the economy, it destroyed the middle class and led (in part) to the rise of the Nazi parfy.

ruveyn

FALSE. War reparations that Germany could not possibly pay are what destroyed its economy. The West decided to punish Germany for starting WWI and it worked. Inflation is usually a side effect of externally imposed scarcity. Countries are punished for not being cooperative and the result is the government has to start printing money to keep the country running. Don't get cause and effect backwards.

War reparations were the major reason that Germany's economy went down the toilet, but quantitative easing didn't help. See Zimbabwe for a famous modern example.

Of course it didn't help. They were being punished by the entire outside world of which they were partly dependent on (through trade). I don't think hyperinflation is the first worry in a productive economy without resource scarcity, forced debt repayments, sanctions, or massive dysfunction. Zimbabwe has all kinds of problems before you even get to the inflation. In any case I think a progressive tax system can control inflation.

Right, we're all too worthless to do anything on our own.
Why just today I called the welfare office to ask someone if I should to go the bathroom or just sit there and shi+ myself. I wasn't sure I could make the right decision on my own.
What else can I get them to do for me, I wonder....

Well did you s**t yourself?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

A lobotomy perhaps. Last I heard you were working for a defense contractor. I'd like to see some massive cuts to defense spending so you will be forced to get a real job in the real private sector instead of mooching off taxpayers.

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By your rhetoric you seem to think everyone already has had lobotomy and cannot do anything for themselves.

If you think you are Mr. Macho Self-Sufficient Tough Guy stop taking tax-payer money and stop buying imported s**t manufactured by slave laborers in India and Bangladesh. Also, a lobotomy would be an improvement for you since you never use your brain anyways. Less weight on your shoulders.

Sorry but what on earth are you talking about? care to back up that statement here as I don't think the south-east does indeed receive much capital these days apart from the capital itself. Also, what do you mean by self-induced tax payers topping up their minimum wages besides the fact they seem to be doing okay? I am actually from this part of the country and for the first part of your statement actually, the industrial side of things are not doing okay, its the worst part that is over here! if this were true, I doubt that many royal fascists or others would likewise find much work here when they don't even have a scratching post to lift a political finger to and find their niche in the market, i.e poorly paid work supplemented by ego statistical based managers who find that hard manual labour seems only to survive in poorer countries,- so lets revive this temporary back stock and create a wider national margin for growth? How is this working when all the government are doing is letting them pass through our gates without so much as a first diploma and the real citizens -the people who made the country what it is are forced to pay back the price and clean their own backsides with a non electrical toothbrush? come on, even this argument doesn't really make proper sense. Clean up the eco-system first, before you brush up on manual labour, so at least there ought to be some alternative infrastructure to how things are supposed to be managed, not through false language barriers and fake documentation.
Still, needless to say, if the queen has managed to place authority over some of her loyal subjects, maybe her people will feel some responsibility has been owed back to them after such a long time in the waiting.

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Is there a version of that comment in English? I have absolutely no idea where to start with that.

Now you know. In order to beat the corporate plutocrats don't have children.

Either that or have so many children that your family can break into their houses and steal what they need.

ruveyn

My church is called Jubilee and Jubilee means land reform so you can afford a bigger family.

well, if you want to sound pathetic, you are certainly going the right way about it.

Austerity begins with the concept that if your household budget is in the red that you need to cut back. So why should it be any different for the government?