Man in a Shed: God bless you merry gentlemen

Thursday, December 24, 2009

God bless you merry gentlemen

And Ladies of course ...
Let me wish you a happy Christmas and a good rest. Because your going to need it for the New Year.

Man in a Shed will be under some pressure not to keep stairing at his computer over the next few days - though might manage the odd tweet. Normal service will be resumed in the new year. ( Usual proviso on acts of left wing lunacy requiring immediate denouement applies - we would all have a quiet and happy Christmas if Polly Toynbee, John Prescott and Harriet Harman would just shut up for once. )

5 comments:

Barking Spider said...: AND Michael Shite!

Merry Christmas, MiaS. :-); 5:08 pm
John M Ward said...: …and Kevin Maguire, and David Aaronovitch, and Nick Robinson, and…

Have a good one, and try not to worry about what the Lefties are saying: few nother with them at normal times of the year, and hardly anyone in this season!; 6:16 pm
Welshcakes Limoncello said...: Buon Natale from Sicily. Word verif is "nowels"!!; 11:46 pm
James Higham said...: And to you to, MiaS. Things got frenetic but you're not forgotten.; 11:24 am
Unknown said...: Happy Christmas - and a Very Merry New Year!; 3:31 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