Man in a Shed: 90 days

Friday, November 17, 2006

90 days

Sounds like the title of a Film. But the plot is really about NuLabour blowing smoke in our eyes for its own security failures (Gordon Brown freezing security service spending), keeping Yates of the Yard out of the headlines, and trying to make a old Leftie War horse / borderline ex-communist John Reid ( did he vote, as Tony Blair did, against the prevention of terrorism act when the IRA only killed Tories and support CND against the continuing freedom of his country ? ) look tough compared to David Cameron.

Drinking from Home has a good post on the security side and what MI5 could really have been trying to say this week.

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The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman