things that should never be privatised:
*The Prisons
*The Courts
*The Police
*1st Responders (Fire, Emergency)
*Education (Universal)
*The Postal Service
*The Administration of State Parks and other Public Lands and Resources including Energy.

*The Military (no armed "Private" Contractors, & NO "private contractors" of ANY sort in War Zones)

*Roads & Bridges
*A Basic National Transportation System
*Energy Grids (including Roads, Rail, Pipeline)
*Drinking Water
*Communication (Publicly Owned Free Internet for EVERYBODY)
*Health Insurance

In a democracy, ALL of the above (and more) should be protected assets of The Commons.
They should ALL be publicly owned,
non-profit,
completely transparent and accountable to The Public,
and administered BY a Government of The People on an EQUAL basis.

If "Private Enterprise" wants to compete with these Publicly Owned/Government Administered Agencies, they are free to do so,
but Private Competitors should NEVER receive a single penny of Public (Tax Payer) Money.

The Privatization of ANY of the above should raise serious Red Flags in any democracy.
## Included should be a National Bank owned by the People that competes with lower fees etc.

Amongst rights that should be guaranteed
*The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

*The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

*The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

*The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

*The right of every family to a decent home;

*The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

*The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

*The right to a good education.

part of Hedda Galloway's Manifesto but basically...brought to you by that loony lefty FDR in 1944.

Ha ha, but that's all we've got time for on 'That's Familiar' for another week. But don't despair - next time on the show we'll be reminding ourselves of that hilarious old ad for pork luncheon meat, revisiting that wonderful Candid Camera jape with the goldfish made of carrots, and we'll also be repeating that brilliant gag about who reads each national newspaper. You know, the one that ends with Sun readers and big tits? And Hedda will be back, disguised as Cyril Fletcher, to read out some amusing street names. So, cheerio, and sleep tight!

flash : Government Ignores Sourpuss Kenneth Mintcake and Springs Into Action After Hedda Galloway Posts Manifesto on King Of Hits!

Jobless mother of 11 gets council to build her £400,000 house because she is 'struggling' in her two current homes

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Miz Hedda Galloway wrote:
flash : Government Ignores Sourpuss Kenneth Mintcake and Springs Into Action After Hedda Galloway Posts Manifesto on King Of Hits!

Jobless mother of 11 gets council to build her £400,000 house because she is 'struggling' in her two current homes

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html




Complete with the quote of the year

Furious neighbour: 'It's a disgrace. She treats her womb like a clown car'

What a load of cobblers !

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation

There is nothing - save their own idleness - stopping people from earning as much as they like !

The right to a good education.

They already get this too - but WASTE it !

The loonies are great at saying where money should be spent - but can never say how it should be earnt !

Interests rates are currently at historic low ... if Mr Silliband won the next election the financial institutions would panic, seeing that the loonies (who cause the financial meltdown) are back in charge of the asylum !!!

Interest rates would rocket - and millions of people would be forced out of their houses because they could not afford the higher rates.

Thousands of businesses would go bust too - causing thousands of job losses.

But ... thats Labour for you !
We used to have a car industry (then we got Labour !) - now we dont !

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Furious neighbour: 'It's a disgrace. She treats her womb like a clown car'

She should be nationalised and sent to Afghanistan immediately - where the troops can make use of her.

When they have finished they can trade her with the Taliban (where we may get 2 goats for her).

I note that her bastards have already started to produce further bastards, and the "father" is in prison (costing us even more).

Hitler was right.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Furious neighbour: 'It's a disgrace. She treats her womb like a clown car'

It now turns out that we taxpayers are also keeping her in a life of luxury - she has a horse and has tried to buy 2 more !

An outraged neighbour said: “It’s disgusting. I don’t pay my taxes so some jobless baby-machine can have a horse.”

Matthew Sinclair, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Benefits are there to provide a safety net when people fall on tough times, not fund an enormous house and a pony.

In The Know wrote:
[quote]What a load of cobblers !


We used to have a car industry (then we got Labour !) - now we dont !

Most of the car industry went in the early 80s.

True wrote:
Most of the car industry went in the early 80s.

.. and who was in power from 1974 - 1979 ? LOL !

In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Furious neighbour: 'It's a disgrace. She treats her womb like a clown car'

It now turns out that we taxpayers are also keeping her in a life of luxury - she has a horse and has tried to buy 2 more !

An outraged neighbour said: “It’s disgusting. I don’t pay my taxes so some jobless baby-machine can have a horse.”

Matthew Sinclair, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Benefits are there to provide a safety net when people fall on tough times, not fund an enormous house and a pony.

A horse? How can she afford a flaming horse?
The child benefit doesn't stretch to horses does it?

I would pay good money to see that neighbour interviewed fully.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
A horse? How can she afford a flaming horse?
The child benefit doesn't stretch to horses does it?

..... yes it does ... x 11 (plus FREE £400,000 house)!!!

At least she can save on stabling once she's done with the womb !

...And finally, Hedda...




...And finally, Esther... I am indebted to Mr Kenneth King of London for the most amusing photograph of the odd-shaped potato! But I close for now with this intriguing observation from Mr Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, which I presume is in Surrey. He writes: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
A horse? How can she afford a flaming horse?
The child benefit doesn't stretch to horses does it?

I would pay good money to see that neighbour interviewed fully.

Worth reading -

Mother of 11 children is poster girl for the scrounging classes www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo...e-scrounging-classes

Isaac Cox wrote:


...And finally, Hedda...




...And finally, Esther... I am indebted to Mr Kenneth King of London for the most amusing photograph of the odd-shaped potato! But I close for now with this intriguing observation from Mr Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, which I presume is in Surrey. He writes: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."

hedda is far more gorgeous ...indeed if I looked like that I'd shoot myself.

hedda wrote:
[quote]Isaac Cox wrote:








hedda is far more gorgeous ...indeed if I looked like that I'd shoot myself.

.... is the top one you when cross-dressing, Hedda ?

hedda wrote:

hedda is far more gorgeous ...indeed if I looked like that I'd shoot myself.

You look exactly like Cyril. Now do the decent thing!

In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
A horse? How can she afford a flaming horse?
The child benefit doesn't stretch to horses does it?

I would pay good money to see that neighbour interviewed fully.

Worth reading -

Mother of 11 children is poster girl for the scrounging classes www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo...e-scrounging-classes

She's paid for flying lessons for her partner now !www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282142...-Christmas-gift.html

In The Know wrote:
True wrote:
Most of the car industry went in the early 80s.

.. and who was in power from 1974 - 1979 ? LOL !

And who was in power when most of the redundancies happened in the 80s?
Unemployment more than doubled when the Tories too over in 1979.

In The Know wrote:
In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
A horse? How can she afford a flaming horse?
The child benefit doesn't stretch to horses does it?

I would pay good money to see that neighbour interviewed fully.

Worth reading -

Mother of 11 children is poster girl for the scrounging classes www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo...e-scrounging-classes

She's paid for flying lessons for her partner now !www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282142...-Christmas-gift.html

govt. should buy them a plane as well.

True wrote:
And who was in power when most of the redundancies happened in the 80s?
Unemployment more than doubled when the Tories too over in 1979.

Examples? Evidence?

If you are talking about the miners, or the car workers - they priced themselves out of jobs through enormous, unsustainable wage demands.