Look, I know I've already run this about a week ago but am I missing the point here? Why is no one kicking up a fuss about the council money in Icelandic banks?Why are people just rolling their eyes to the sky and saying, "No way are you getting a bailout," when what they should be doing is going en masse to council offices and asking why the money was not used on:
"Oh, we were making your council tax money work for you." No you weren't - bollocks! You were being clever clever with someone else's money, weren't you?
Now you've lost it and you're liable for every last pound being returned to the ratepayers who paid through the nose for your smartarse actions. You have not used the money on what you were duty bound to do, so just like every other citizen who loses someone's money, you are liable for it.
1. meals on wheels which have been curtailed and tough to the pensioners;
2. extra rubbish collections and insisting the rubbish men come to you to empty the bin, not having to walk half a mile;
3. extra council jobs for a range of workplace sectors?
"Oh, we were making your council tax money work for you." No you weren't - bollocks! You were being clever clever with someone else's money, weren't you?
Now you've lost it and you're liable for every last pound being returned to the ratepayers who paid through the nose for your smartarse actions. You have not used the money on what you were duty bound to do, so just like every other citizen who loses someone's money, you are liable for it.
Oh and by the way, what about this one?
Yep!
ReplyDeleteAnd this is what the foreign bankers left back: a few glass-palaces (some finished some unfinished); debts; and some luxury cars they could not take with them in the planes in which they precipitously left Iceland.
And what does the government do? Telling parents they should not speak about the economic crisis to their children. Teachers are directed not speak about to their pupils.
Hope to find time to deliver a post next week on this (and other) topics, and then will link to this.
Right now Mrs. J insists on us having a glass of red together, on the grounds that at midnight I shall not be as young as right now. :)
The peace of the night.
And to you.
ReplyDeleteAh, sorry: what I wrote about Iceland is not my opinion. The source is German TV (ARD); very interesting reportage this evening.
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