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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”
( Warren Buffett )
( Warren Buffett )
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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no taxes or spending without consent: no tax, charge or levy shall be imposed, nor any public spending authorised, nor any sum borrowed by any national or local government except with the express permission of the majority of the people, renewed annually on presentation of a properly authenticated budget which shall first have been approved by their respective legislatures;
You could argue that the public would increase spending by voting for it, but then it is the public who are liable for the debt anyway. So much better than me borrowing ten grand, then insisting that the occupants in the 20 houses up the road pay £500 quid each for their fair share.
how much is that, well, in £20 notes fresh with bands in £1000 bundles, I could possibly fill a tesco carrier bag to make a milion pounds. But I would need to hire in a skip to throw into it 1000 of those bags, to make 1 billion. At the current rate I would need to get 100 skips to spend at the same rate as the government.
This is not a debt reduction government, they are just over taxing hoping things will get beter, well they wont, start cutting!!!!!