[RobD] All
Yeah its all the old buggers faults buying all the houses up to rent out and in turn making them so expensive for us. Then to further hinder our attempts to secure a home they charge us so much rent we...
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Still you oldies are getting cracking intrests rates on all your rental properties now.
View Article[DSTAR] mailman
Did you use to own a shop by any chance. you seem to be obsessed with the effect on shops closing
View Article[NeepHead] Market forces
When all is said and done it will be those who cannot or choose not to afford to purchase who will cause the sellers to bring down their prices. To do that they will have to look at where their costs...
View Article[NeepHead] RobD
The oldies will move on and leave their properties to their offspring. If you are one of those what will you do? Sell it? Continue renting?
View Article[Bandiera-Rossa] RobD
You can't blame the "baby boomers" for the current crisis. We didn't spend all the money!. That was "Thatchers Children" or the "permanently adolescent narcissistic consumers" as I heard them called...
View Article[Bandiera-Rossa] NeepHead
If they put up benefits instead of cutting them all that money would be spent on consumer goods and food, thereby boosting the economy. Oh, sorry, I forgot that we import all our consumer goods and...
View Article[NeepHead] B-R
We are where we are. Benefits, excesive slaries, unearned bonuses, unpaid taxes, stupid borrowings, etc., have all got to be addressed. It had to come to a head, now is the time, let's bite the bullet,...
View Article[mailman] DSTAR
NO... But it will have a profound influence on shopping in the next 20 years if the past 10 years girection continues. Obsessed...is not the word just a fact of reality that governments refuse to...
View Article[Bandiera-Rossa] NeepHead et. al.
I know I must seem like an old cynic, but, like mailman, I'm only trying to add to the discussion. With 4 children and 5 grandchildren I can't afford to be too cynical. I have no idea how the banks...
View Article[NeepHead] B-R
Capitalism, Marxism, whichever, neither works if unfairness, cheating, excesses, are allowed. Now is the first time in history that mankind has the opportunity to straighten out the rules. The UK could...
View Article[mailman] NeepHead ..All
Yes ...i go along with most of that....... But we need a system that inspires respect and fairness for the majority.......... not a system of government that thinks whoever con or lab get into power...
View Article[NeepHead] mailman
Absolutely! But we still lead the World in the fairness of our legal system.
View Article[Ranjm] ...
We will never have an egalitarian society. That's just the way it is. As John Paul Getty wrote in his autobiography, if everyone had an equal house, a car and a hundred thousand to themselves, all...
View Article[jings100] Ranjm
There are so many things about that post that I disagree with , .......and parts I totally agree with, Lol......Maybe it just depends on individual experience and human nature . ATB
View Article[NeepHead] Jings
I wonder if we agree the same things? The essentiaal thing is that we strive to give everyone a fair return for their personal effort. It is not about sharing equally.
View Article[Ranjm] Jings
I do feel that those who have acquired wealth have a moral duty to help society at large. Fortunately, as history has shown, a great many of these have turned to philanthropy and have made a real...
View Article[mailman] NeepHead....All
Not everyone can be treated the same as we are not all the same ... But to have a salary structure for a full time working person working for a company from say 18k to 20 million a year ... Beggers...
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