Dear Mr Cameron

[FONT=&quot]Dear Mr. Cameron,

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[FONT=&quot]Please find below our suggestion for fixing England's economy. [/FONT]
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Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the
money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the
following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed
4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university -
Crime rate fixed
5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....
and there's your money back in duty/tax etc
6) Instead of stuffing around with the carbon emissions trading scheme that makes us pay for the major polluters, tell the greedy illegitimate children to reduce their pollution emissions by 75% within 5 years or we shut them down.
It can't get any easier than that! [/FONT]
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P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know. If not, please disregard.
Grumpies of the World Unite.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]
Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing
home.
This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them.
A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.
They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual
counselling, pool and education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request.
Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with
gardens.
Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to. [/FONT]
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The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised.
Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Think about this (more points of contention):

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the
mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria? And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They keep talking about drafting a
Constitution for Iraq ... Why don't we just give them ours?
It was drawn up by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for
centuries and we're not using it anymore.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or Parliament, is this -
You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal', 'Thou Shalt Not Commit
Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers,
judges and politicians..... It creates a hostile work environment. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Also;

Think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of
offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It is time for us grumpy old folk of Britain to speak up![/FONT]

 

I agree with all of that except point 3. If suddenly 10 million houses were bought up, then it would be even harder for people to get onto the property ladder.

During the 'boom', there was half hearted talk about curbing the price rises so that ordinary people could afford to buy houses to actually live in, as opposed to wealthy people buying them up as investment properties, and then renting them out at extortionate prices to those who were stuck in a catch 22 whereby they couldn't afford to save for a deposit to buy a house because ever spare penny they had, often as much as a third of someone's take home pay, sometimes more, was going onto rent for their poorly maintained rented property.

Now the house prices have stopped rising much, and in some cases are falling, people are panicking again. Not so much ordinary people who bought a house to live in. They recognise that it makes little difference how much their house value moves because everyone else's is moving in step. The people that are panicking about the stagnation of house prices are those that bought up everything they could afford, thinking they could rake in huge rents and then sell at a massive profit, and are now realising that by the time they take into account interest on their 'buy to let' mortgages they will actually break even rather than making a massive profit.

 

Many a true word....

 

Very true Ziggy. Some eye openers there Harry.

 

Don't worry, the hopeless can still get all sorts of grants to go to university. Read further than the headline of the Daily Mirror. The only people screwed are the people working their arses off for their kids. The useless are still having their backsides wiped, even more so under this lot of toffs (who have romantic visions of the underclass) than under the last lot of psychopaths.

 

While I sort of see your point, I don't think its fair to make sweeping statements about 'useless people'. Sure there are some scrounging jobdodgers about but there are also an awful lot of ordinary people who do their best, but don't do so well financially. These people are not useless, some of them are the most underrated members of society. The cleaners, without whom we'd have to work in dirty workplaces. The shop assistants, without whom we'd struggle to buy anything. The security guards, without whom so much stuff would get nicked that the retail costs would go through the roof. All these people work hard and are, in my opinion, equal to the top managers in multinational corporations. The only difference is they get paid just enough to not qualify for any assistance with anything, but not enough to actually afford to do anything except live a modest life.