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Topic History of: Recession? ... What recession?
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In The Know |
Innocent Accused wrote:
Yes Steve,my Spanish export business is doing better than ever,while all around me their is extreme poverty......the rich always seem to get richer in a recession...as of course the poor get...
... what they worked for ? |
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Innocent Accused |
steveimp wrote:
In the last six months my business has never been busier, to the extent I can take a day off during the week as opposed to working six days. Strange, but true.
Yes Steve,my Spanish export business is doing better than ever,while all around me their is extreme poverty......the rich always seem to get richer in a recession...as of course the poor get... |
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CONtraversialView |
Absolutely shameful !
Nowt new in Ye Olde phoney-Anglophonia.
CHARLES DICKENS, 1838: 'Oliver Twist', " More ?! You want MORE - boy !! " Oliver Twist is an early example of the social novel, exposing various contemporary evils, including the Poor Law. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humour. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of hardships in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s.
ALDOUS HUXLEY, 1931: 'Brave New World', title from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1610), Act V, Scene I, 'O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't. Huxley's novel is set in London AD 2540. When the book first appeared, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future, anticipating developments in social engineering, reproductive technology and sleep-learning.
CHARLES CHAPLIN, 1936: 'Modern Times' film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions that millions faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, by the supposed 'efficiencies' of modern industrialization.
ALDOUS HUXLEY, 1958, 'Brave New World Revisited'. A reassessment of his earlier classic, in an essay. Among the most important post-WW2 tracts. Using Huxley's tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day electronic world with his earlier prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as propaganda, overpopulation, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. 'Brave New World Revisited' is a trenchant plea that we should educate ourselves for freedom before it is too late.
DON McLEAN, 1971, 'Vincent' " They're not listening still, perhaps they never will."
"Brass" 1981, TV Britcom-noire, set in 1930s industrial Grim Britain, with Robber-Baron exploiter mill & mine owner Bradley Hardacre. "This is awful! Miners are now dying with silicosis. MY coal-dust in THEIR lungs ?! Is there no way of removing it before they're buried ? It's MY coal-dust !!"
Mad Dogs & Englishmen ! |
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In The Know |
Hedda wrote:
you would think they'd take notice of ITK and hire more people.
Yes, we will have to bring in more people from Eastern Europe - because as you know, the UK dolers are unemployable.
We need smart, intelligent, articulate people - not those with nails through their faces ! |
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hedda |
In The Know wrote:
Today is "super Monday" or something like that !
Visa claims £222,000 will be spent online every minute.
Recession? What recession?
yahooo..all those scroungers are out spending the cash and keeping the economy afloat!!!!
let's hear a big cheer for socialism making ITK's day!!  |
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