One Billion, not funny now is it!

[Lorry thompson]

Aaah, the good old days....

 

When men were men and so were the women:lol:

[PeteB]

I see where you are coming from Lee. I don't tend to trust politicians, they see taxes as "easy come, easy go!" as they haven't had to work hard to pay those costs. They spend our taxes where they think the votes are coming from and spend their time telling us what we need and how we are going to pay for it. They then blame the previous incumbents when it goes pear shaped.

 

They don't listen because they don't like what they hear!

[Lee Winger]

The bankers had more than 1500 of those billions in their bailout.

 

 

Scary.............

[slasherscot]

Look Stephen, I'm sick of explaining it to you Scots, but England didn't take Scotland by force - it was a union!

 

Some people never let things go!

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heres me thinking that it was a scottish king that went down to rule u lot:sneaky2:

[Chris Gagen]

politics, break it down,

 

"poly" = many

 

"tics" = bloodsuckers

 

just about sums it up really.

[tommer9]

Scary.............

 

Yet the justification for the bailout appears to be basically that the banking industry needs supporting due to the annual tax revenue from The City.....which at about £26bn/ annum would equate to 57 years worth of tax. There has been an announcement that there is to be a levy on banks, that will raise a further £200million, but that equates to a mere 0.4% increase for the banks, while at the same time society at large is still to feel the whole force of the cuts that have been announced but not yet implemeted:thumbdown:

[Lee Winger]

Yet the justification for the bailout appears to be basically that the banking industry needs supporting due to the annual tax revenue from The City.....which at about £26bn/ annum would equate to 57 years worth of tax. There has been an announcement that there is to be a levy on banks, that will raise a further £200million, but that equates to a mere 0.4% increase for the banks, while at the same time society at large is still to feel the whole force of the cuts that have been announced but not yet implemeted:thumbdown:

 

 

Legitimised Mafia.................

[skyhuck]

The bankers had more than 1500 of those billions in their bailout.

 

Where is this figure from?????

 

That far more than any figure I have heard.

[Gnarlyoak]

i dont know much about world history or politics but 100 years ago were we not making a lot of money out of slavery and basically taking other peoples land through force:thumbdown:

 

Erm... Not quite mate. Britain abolished slavery in 1833 not 1911 and was the first country in the world to do so. And in 1911 the British Empire already had all the dominions she would ever possess. However it was the possession of these dominions from which Britain was able to accrue much of its vast wealth at the time which meant it did'nt have to tax its own population quite as much as we have to pay today by comparison. Which is just as well as the average household income would have been less than £50 per year.

[morten]

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

 

Nope, a billion seconds ago, it was 1979.

 

60 * 60 * 24 * 365 = 31,536,000 seconds/year, which means 1 billion seconds is about 32 years

 

The rest is spot on, though