
.... and why poor old Godders?![]()
Exactly. I am not poor I have at least £127.53 in my Post Office savings account and that will be worth a great deal more when they add my 0.5% interest in the next few weeks. Thank goodness for capitalism it will make us all rich. I also have enough small change collected in the tin in the scullery to buy my season ticket for next year so I'll have you know that relatively speaking I am quite comfortably off and can afford to support my life style.
Exactly. I am not poor I have at least £127.53 in my Post Office savings account and that will be worth a great deal more when they add my 0.5% interest in the next few weeks. Thank goodness for capitalism it will make us all rich. I also have enough small change collected in the tin in the scullery to buy my season ticket for next year so I'll have you know that relatively speaking I am quite comfortably off and can afford to support my life style.
You are rich you daft old goat. Certainly when compared with almost all citizens of the former Soviet Bloc. Tell me capitalism hasn't done well by you.
Lay of the ageist language old chap. That's not the done thing these days.
With regards to the poor citizens of the former Soviet Bloc people like Abramovich wasting millions on Chelsea and his yacht etc. has done nothing to alleviate their poverty. When it comes down to it is about whether you believe in compassion or greed and from your post I have to assume greed is your motivator.
Exactly. I am not poor I have at least £127.53 in my Post Office savings account and that will be worth a great deal more when they add my 0.5% interest in the next few weeks. Thank goodness for capitalism it will make us all rich. I also have enough small change collected in the tin in the scullery to buy my season ticket for next year so I'll have you know that relatively speaking I am quite comfortably off and can afford to support my life style.
Lay of the ageist language old chap. That's not the done thing these days.
With regards to the poor citizens of the former Soviet Bloc people like Abramovich wasting millions on Chelsea and his yacht etc. has done nothing to alleviate their poverty. When it comes down to it is about whether you believe in compassion or greed and from your post I have to assume greed is your motivator.
I'm probably as old as you are. And no greedier than most of my fellows. Just a realist. Capitalism works, and gave birth to democracy. All the alternatives are pretty ghastly.
As an erstwhile student of history I think you need to view what happened in Russia in the context of what the country was at the time i.e. very similar to the set up in other European countries some three centuries earlier. Serfs were effectively owned slaves.Doesn't bode well when people who have been treated like that turn uppity.