The Budget

Not interested in the stock market anymore as we cashed in our (stocks & shares based)endowment policy the week before 9/11.

 

I always remember what my dad would say when I was a naive youth, not yet wise to the ways of the world.

The gist of it was "Every year when budget time comes round, we hear the politicians promising that we will all be better off, that they will reward hard work, that prosperity is just around the corner and so on...
..... and every year I still have to get up and go to work the next morning."

 

Perhaps that may be, yet again, after both of us completely opting out of 'economic activity' and despite not claiming any benefits whatsoever, our previous hard work will not be rewarded, but once again we're still worse off after this budget.

Or will 'rewards' be limited to all those immigrants earning less than £38,000 p.a. who are required to drive our new economy, but who actually make nett gains on tax, after what they get back in tax credits, child benefits, etc., and also require additional housing, schooling, etc. Again I think not, Oh hang on a minute all the houses they will require will cause a housing boom/boost to the economy ..... there goes our allotments.

 

There'd be a lot less of them if there were less jobs here for them, and there'd be less jobs here for them if so many of Britain's youths were workshy job dodgers.

 

Do you really mean what you've just said, or did you actually mean to say the opposite?

Like there'd be less jobs here for them (immigrants) if so many of Britain's youths were not workshy job dodgers?

 

Well spotted. You're absolutely right. The 'not' should be there.

 

Its how they are brought up now days from an early age.
Never told they are rubbish and never allowed to feel they have failed.

So they never try to do better.
Recipe for mindless morons, its not their fault, its the nanny state.

There are some that are good, but that mostly comes from the parents teachings and not the system.

 

There's a balance to be struck though. If you only ever tell someone they are no good, then they will believe it, and believe that there is no point trying to be better because no matter what they do, they are told they are no good.

At the other end of the scale, permanent praise, even when its not really justified, just leads to arrogance.

Somewhere in between is about right I think, and its what I aim for with my kids. Massively exaggerated praise for any achievement, so that effort is rewarded, but no praise at all, and even a bit of verbal chastisement, where laziness or blatant cheek is shown.

 

lets wait and see what they come up with at next years budget that will surely be the budget that bribes people into voting in the tories