Man in a Shed: Another Silly logo

GOT has a great logo for next week copied below, which can be used by all.

Just about sums it up nicely - good job GOT.

I know there are a few people worried about letting the establishment of the hook for a week, but I'm fairly sure humour normally has a far greater impact than anger - however justified.

Remeber you don't have to be angry all the time - merciless humour works just as well ! As does the plain ridiculous. What those who are off on their holidays fear most of all is being laughed at. (Hence the President of Pakistan's recent decree of prison sentences for anyone making jokes about him ... hmmmmm )

Remember to use the tags (#SillyWeek) - so we can all keep an eye on what's going on.

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