Man in a Shed: Art

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Art

I saw this whilst coming out of a train station in Liverpool last week.

Yes it does rotate ( and I think it was on TV a while ago ). I'm guessing that somehow my taxes probably paid for it - in which case its really Silly.

5 comments:

North Northwester said...: Hmm. How about a Last Night of the Silly Week to see these glorious seven days of madness out with some sort of a climax?

If so, would it be Saturday or Sunday?

It seems to be Going well; 8:06 pm
Punch said...: Logic:
A - if the art was paid for by taxes it's Silly.
B - Anything paid for by taxes is Silly.
A=B therefore War is Silly.
I agree ShedMan. Thanks for the chuckle.
Which day is the end of this Silly week?; 12:15 am
Man in a Shed said...: Okay guys the last day is Sunday 2nd Aug - in whatever timezone you inhabit.; 9:14 am
James Higham said...: A mirror? Why? To see the traffic or for art?; 9:56 am
Welshcakes Limoncello said...: Now that is a really silly waste of taxpayers' money!; 9:58 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