Thats where the money is...is it?

[WorcsWuss]

So when they are fixing libor rates and mid selling ppi and speculating on fuel prices which affects everyone for their own benefit that's ok is it? Doff your cap and take the crumbs from the table

 

 

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2 different kinds of banking.

And take what you see in the news with a pinch of salt.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Good rant WorcsWuss and I agree with that. A good friend of mine works for a Russian merchant bank earning a very fat salary with very fat bonuses.

He has a 1hr commute to be in the office at 5am. He's under immense pressure and has to do lots of client entertaining which means late nights. His job is on the line permanently.

 

He loves/hates it, as we all do but what else could be do. He's only qualified to be a banker and it's the only set if skills he's got.

I envy him as much as I feel sorry for him.

We all have choices in what path we take and one path that many people take is the choice to moan and complain.

 

 

 

 

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[john p]

Not complaining, just trying to get some balance, not all bankers / speculators/ venture capitalists are thieves, and not all benefit claimants are shirking scroungers. It's always been the way, set the working poor against the jobless poor. Anyway apologies too for epic derail

 

 

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[mendiplogs]

Not complaining, just trying to get some balance, not all bankers / speculators/ venture capitalists are thieves, and not all benefit claimants are shirking scroungers. It's always been the way, set the working poor against the jobless poor. Anyway apologies too for epic derail

 

 

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HI JON your in EARY MATE :sneaky2:JON

[egnsean]

Not complaining, just trying to get some balance, not all bankers / speculators/ venture capitalists are thieves, and not all benefit claimants are shirking scroungers. It's always been the way, set the working poor against the jobless poor. Anyway apologies too for epic derail

 

 

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this is very very true, yet the working poor fall for it every time, without thinking they themselves are only a car accident or illness away from being on benefits themselves.

[WorcsWuss]

Good rant WorcsWuss and I agree with that. A good friend of mine works for a Russian merchant bank earning a very fat salary with very fat bonuses.

He has a 1hr commute to be in the office at 5am. He's under immense pressure and has to do lots of client entertaining which means late nights. His job is on the line permanently.

 

He loves/hates it, as we all do but what else could be do. He's only qualified to be a banker and it's the only set if skills he's got.

I envy him as much as I feel sorry for him.

We all have choices in what path we take and one path that many people take is the choice to moan and complain.

 

 

 

 

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Not complaining, just trying to get some balance, not all bankers / speculators/ venture capitalists are thieves, and not all benefit claimants are shirking scroungers. It's always been the way, set the working poor against the jobless poor. Anyway apologies too for epic derail

 

 

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I'm not out for a fight with anyone, and I count myself as fortunate to sit comfortably enough between the two ends the the scale to get not too worked up about either end of it, I mix happily with both.

I do get sick of the same old banker bashing I see constantly on Facebook, in the press and in 'satirical comedy'. As Ali pointed out, we all have problems and we all have things to be envious of, whether banker of unemployed, they're just different.

The financial crisis is owned by all of us, those with big mortgages for overpriced houses, over stretched borrowing, even big savings accounts who spend little. No one group of the community can be blamed, we (practically) all played a part in it, there's no point in trying to blame someone, we just got to get on with earning and spending.

And never letting socialists dabble with running the country again...!

 

I'm seizing the spending bit with both hands, I am a one man recession buster.... :biggrin:

[breffni]

I'm not out for a fight with anyone, and I count myself as fortunate to sit comfortably enough between the two ends the the scale to get not too worked up about either end of it, I mix happily with both.

I do get sick of the same old banker bashing I see constantly on Facebook, in the press and in 'satirical comedy'. As Ali pointed out, we all have problems and we all have things to be envious of, whether banker of unemployed, they're just different.

The financial crisis is owned by all of us, those with big mortgages for overpriced houses, over stretched borrowing, even big savings accounts who spend little. No one group of the community can be blamed, we (practically) all played a part in it, there's no point in trying to blame someone, we just got to get on with earning and spending.

And never letting socialists dabble with running the country again...!

 

I'm seizing the spending bit with both hands, I am a one man recession buster.... :biggrin:

 

When did socialists last run the country? You don't mean the last labour government do you??

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[difflock]

Wosterwoss for Prime Minister.

I could not agree more.

Anyway, one should not NEED, to borrow from banks, if one is prudent with even relatively humble earnings.

Not even for a mortgage.

IT was ALL down to pure simple greed and excessive consumption at ALL levels.

If mugs had not borrowed beyond their perhaps limited means, the Bankers would never have got rich.

Fact!

Spend less time in the Pub, and less money on expensive Hobbies, until one is 40 odd and one is set for life.

I had a bank account from 14 or 15, plus I had and used a credit card from prob 17, but ALWAYS cleared the account at the end of each month.

Many mickle mak a muckle.

IT is not difficult but it is not easy either.

From an unrepentant thrifty Capitalist.

PS

We still buy second hand furniture.

[WorcsWuss]

When did socialists last run the country? You don't mean the last labour government do you??

 

Yes, and I see where you're going with this, but they're the closest thing we have to a socialist party these days. I know the only thing they have in common with socialists of old is their irrational hatred of the wealthy founded in envy and greed, but they're all we've got!

That said, while animal farm was based on members of the communist party, surely there were / are labour mp's who modelled themselves on characters from the book.....! Old 2 jags always reminded me of the pigs.....

[WorcsWuss]

Wosterwoss for Prime Minister.

I could not agree more.

Anyway, one should not NEED, to borrow from banks, if one is prudent with even relatively humble earnings.

Not even for a mortgage.

IT was ALL down to pure simple greed and excessive consumption at ALL levels.

If mugs had not borrowed beyond their perhaps limited means, the Bankers would never have got rich.

Fact!

Spend less time in the Pub, and less money on expensive Hobbies, until one is 40 odd and one is set for life.

I had a bank account from 14 or 15, plus I had and used a credit card from prob 17, but ALWAYS cleared the account at the end of each month.

Many mickle mak a muckle.

IT is not difficult but it is not easy either.

From an unrepentant thrifty Capitalist.

PS

We still buy second hand furniture.

 

I'd agree with your suggestions completely, (apart from the prime minister bit, i prefer the term 'dictator' or 'tyrant' ) and hold my hands up guiltily and admit I am too materialistic to practice them. I'm no better than the single parent living on benefits who buys their kids x boxes and iPhones and designer clothes they cannot afford for Christmas in that respect. I spend beyond my means and have to work doubly hard to stand still.

My god, I am truly middle class!:lol: