Man in a Shed: Remember

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Remember - John Deacon

John Deacon - youngest brother (centre), beloved by his two sisters, who was lost in the evacuation of Crete.

4 comments:

AloneMan said...: Thinking of you, all our bereaved and our fallen on this precious day.; 12:44 pm
Ellee Seymour said...: Greece suffered very badly during the last world war. They also had a civil war and more Greeks killed Greeks than Germans.; 3:41 pm
Man in a Shed said...: I should have added he was my great Uncle.

Just reading Max Hastings Armageddon right now, which just leaves me with a lasting thankfulness that I've never been involved in such a war and that others did their duty to make that possible.

Elle - I think British soldiers also died in that civil war. But Churchill at least saved Greece and maybe Turkey from Stalin, no thanks to Roosevelt.; 5:31 pm
2345 said...: Remember also the beloved brothers and sons who gave their lives in WW2, the Falklands along with men continuing to lose their lives in current war zones ... especially those despatched on the basis of Blair's lies.; 5:57 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