Man in a Shed: The week so far

Based on my cursory searches this is my list of contributions so far.

What have I missed ? ( Posting these, rather than a gadget creates the links that tie the whole thing together I hope ).

PS Just to make life miserably hard ( or just plain silly ) I've re-badged some of the links ....

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

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: . . . and what a shed load (SillyWeek pun intended)
of great stuff there has been!

Perhaps if you have a moment you could check out all this lot too ;-); 1:09 pm
Anonymous said...: Three here:

http://edgaregg.blogspot.com/2009/07/fun-novelty-prop-plucked-hen-bird-joke.html

http://edgaregg.blogspot.com/2009/07/at-general-election-it-is-permissible.html

http://edgaregg.blogspot.com/2009/07/extremely-serious-party.html

Hope they are silly enough ...; 1:10 pm
Goodnight Vienna said...: It was a good idea and lifted a lot of the political dross from our shoulders for a while - in fact I'm tempted to carry on with it and make every week a Silly Week at my place.; 5:37 pm
The End (Bye Bye!) said...: It was a very good idea. Well done, MIAS!; 5:40 pm
CherryPie said...: It has been fun :-) but it has made my brain ache thinking up the silliest things!; 6:22 pm
James Higham said...: Think you've covered it there. Two days to go then.; 6:47 pm
John M Ward said...: I've done a few that obviously haven't yet made it into Google. It has been a good idea, well executed by the participants.

It needs to become an annual event for this time of year :-); 8:22 pm
Man in a Shed said...: I'll be along shortly to note these posts and do another trawl . In the mean time I think I've found the prize ...(announcement in next post); 11:01 am
North Northwester said...: And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but Blowing my own trumpet; 3:12 pm
Welshcakes Limoncello said...: Several of mine missing:
http:sicilyscene.blogspot.com/2009/07/translation-fun.html

http:sicilyscene.blogspot.com/2009/07/silly-week-its-my-old-age-and-ill-wear.html

http:sicilyscene.blogspot.com/2009/07/silly-week-limerick-challenge.html

http://sicilyscene.blogspot.com/2009/07/silly-week-dragon-footwear.html

And just up:
http://sicilyscene.blogspot.com/2009/08/silly-week-cream-tangerine-and.html

It's all been great fun and it ain't over yet! We should do this several times a year.; 9:54 pm
Anonymous said...: Is there a prize? Damn it, I'll throw in 2 more of mine.

1. Gordon Brown's message
http://opinionated-crybaby.blogspot.com/2009/07/gordon-browns-message-to-voters.html

2. Bob Ainsworth and his intellect
http://opinionated-crybaby.blogspot.com/2009/08/bob-ainsworth-not-so-intellectual.html; 11:53 pm
Man in a Shed said...: This is looking very good. However I've been a bit remiss today - got dragged out for a curry this evening so no time for a blog post for today.

Picked up what has to be one of the Silliest films ever at a school fete which I watched a few nights ago. I think that'll be the prize. ( I told you not to get your hopes up ).

Have to devise some method of assigning it on Monday.

Last day Sunday !; 12:15 am
North Northwester said...: It was a great idea; tiring but fun.
Thanks Man.

Same time next year with more fanfare and notice...if old Blighty's still here?; 9:17 pm