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Originally Posted by Eric
I agree ... And if govts. saved in the good times, so that they had funds for the bad, things would be better. But no: when times are good, spend, spend, spend. And when times are bad, there's nothing left to help ease the economic pain.
And times were tough back in our day; but as the saying goes: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going".  |
We had a lovely cache of gold as a buffer against the bad times.....a bit like my Ma's Rainy day tin.(
Only to be dipped into in the
direst of dire emergencies) Things were good in this land...but we had a daft Chancellor who had the idea to sell off the gold reserve...that stuff in the governments rainy day tin.
Now let me think for a minute...who was it?
Ah, yes it is coming back to me now.......Gordon Brown.......and which party did he belong to?....er, that would be the Labour party then......or should I perhaps clarify that and call them New Labour.....they certainly weren't the socialist of days gone by...they were as close as it is possible to be, to a tory without actually having that name.
But they bamboozled lots and lots of the true Labour supporters....those who only look at the colour of the rosette.