Man in a Shed: Leaving the country...

Friday, April 06, 2007

Leaving the country...

Well just leaving the country for the holidays.

I wish you all a good break and a reflective Easter !

Best wishes,

Man in a Shed.

5 comments:

James Higham said...: Curses. I got here too late. Oh well, have a happy Easter.; 2:26 pm
Man in a Shed said...: No I'm the one who's late. haven't packed yet and the wife is back in an hours time ( she's had to work at her Hospital today).

I should stop watching a rerun of Blogger TV and get on with it !; 2:52 pm
Anonymous said...: I could be sitting right next to you, the pics are really clear. Hope you are having a good time.; 9:37 pm
James Higham said...: And you'll return - when?; 8:01 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Just a few hours ago on this Sat.

What I did on my holidays type posts to follow - after I've bought some food for the family to eat this weekend !; 5:31 pm

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