Man in a Shed: Just passed 1000 posts

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Just passed 1000 posts

Well a few posts ago - the staggering stupidity of our liberal establishment has blasted me across that milestone without even noticing it. This all started out as a whinge about the price a certain US firm was charging for their software in the UK.

7 comments:

Sgt Rock said...: Congratulations Sir!

Only been reading here since nine hundred and eighty odd. Keep up the good work.

PS. Nice shed!; 5:23 pm
Quiet_Man said...: Congrats, nice achievement long may you blog :-); 6:16 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Thank you both kindly.

It was actually a shock to discover anyone read blogs, let alone mine. But then came the hit counter - the opiate of blogging ....; 8:35 pm
The Daily Pundit said...: Meant to leave a comment yesterday and forgot. Congrats. Keep it up.; 7:28 pm
Grendel said...: Good for you Sir.

Looking forward to reading through the next 1000.

G; 12:11 am
Man in a Shed said...: Again thanks. What is worrying is, like I suspect many other, I never intended to post much. It was just an experiment like setting up your own web site. But then I began to realise how angry I am about the current state of my country and those who run it.

That's one of the reasons for the title and running it anon. I'm trying to express some of the frustration I feel and I suspect that faceless thousands in this country feel.

Maybe that's arrogance and presumption. But the blosphere's a free market and nobody needs to take a blind bit of notice of what I say - much like many people think in silence as they self censure and are brow beaten into silence.; 11:08 am
James Higham said...: Oh well done, sir. Significant milestone.; 4:01 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