Man in a Shed: Christmas truce

Monday, December 20, 2010

Christmas truce

Sitting in a coffee shop in my home town listening to piped carols the fact that Christmas is catching up can not be ignored any longer. ( If only as I haven't bought the Wife's presents yet. )

So on the spirit of good will to all men, even socialists, I'm declaring a Christmas blog truce. Only upbeat posts to follow.

Open session resumes on 1st Jan 2011.

Good luck with your preparations folks.

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5 comments:

Wyrdtimes said...: Have a good one MiaS; 12:43 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Thanks, you also.; 3:38 pm
James Higham said...: even socialists

No way, MiaS.; 5:27 pm
John M Ward said...: I think the even Socialists can be given a break for the duration. As for the odd-numbered Socialists, though...

Anyway, everyone: do have a good 'un, despite the weather, and we'll all be back at it again in January, I'm sure.

I have been posting my usual seasonal stuff, as a gesture of good will, which some here might enjoy.; 10:44 pm
Junius said...: Do Socialist actually believe in Christmas though? I thought they might have outlawed it as being offensive to ... er ... turkeys?

Anyway, knowing Socialists as I do, they are probably plotting in the wings even as we speak to legislate it out of existence on the grounds people enjoy it so it has to be bad for you!!; 10:42 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