May I respectfully suggest to one and all that spending money when you have it, rather than in the

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

hope it will arrive at some point in the future, is a terrific strategy for remaining solvent, sleeping well at night, and avoiding the Fleet.

Just a bit of advice there, you can have it for free.

:thumbup:

[Pokster]

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

In fact, most of capitalism is predicated on spending pretendy money.

You've not gone all Comrade Gideon on us have you?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The *******s tend to come and ask for it back.

[Classic Jorge]

We'd all be in the poorhouse if we all took your approach.

What about the people without money, eh? Surely they should be able to spend some money too.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That doesn't mean paying thick lazy c**ts a fortune for screwing the lids on toothpaste tubes or driving trains. It means a reasonable, affordable wage commensurate with their efforts.

[Pokster]

[Classic Jorge]

...after woeful yearly results, I wonder?

[Classic Jorge]

[R.C. Celebrating the return of Trophies]

but when you know you have twice as much money coming in from one source within 12 months it is fiscally acceptable to borrow against it if that will increase your stock during that time.

For example, next season the tv money from the CL doubles. What price then would you be prepared to pay to enhance your chances of qualification. You have to spend that money now or risk falling even further behind those who accept the challenge.

From what I've read there is no-one here worthy to make that choice and I would venture to suggest you will see a bolder AW now than previously.

How can you possibly live with that given your stance here.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

calibre of chap at the helm. That would be a commercial judgement rather than an ideologically-driven knee jerk Komment Macht Freight btl.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Perhaps Owen Jones should be in charge. How would that go, in terms of the tax payer getting a return?

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

But they're not very successful at their chosen business of making money?

Blimey, I didn't know Brown had shovelled in THAT much!

[Classic Jorge]

Sterling work!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Not that I'm suggesting that the so-called banking crisis was the system's finest hour, or anything. It did serve, to a degree, to deflect attention from the effects of the socialists spending our money like drunken sailors for far too long, which IS money that was simply thrown away.

[Classic Jorge]

Personally I would have preferred it if, when taking a controlling interest in banks like Lloyds and RBS, that they actually took a controlling interest and used them to the benefit of the nation. Instead state owned assets have by and large been a barrier to growth by restricting business lending in an effort to meet covenants put in place in the bailout.

Whichever way you cut it though, the bank bailout was a victory for big government intervention

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

And there is Big Government Intervention in every single moment of our lives now. It has become a way of life to have our every action and thought monitored and controlled by the government.

But that's what 70 years of socialism is going to get you :shrug:

Thank God I'm almost dead.