What's this all about? No wonder the prisons are overcrowded!
I couldn't believe this was real when I heard it on the news! Incredible!
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx? ... d=16400564
Wikipedia wrote:"Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe political systems whereby a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism."
£3.73 wrote:What have YOU done lately to ensure your own children & grandchildren don't ?
Horse wrote: Not had sex
£3.73 wrote:Wikipedia wrote:"Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe political systems whereby a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism."
This country in now awash with career politicians, paper pushers, & officious control freaks.
There is surveilance, monitoring & regulation of every aspect of life.
EMDEE wrote:Oddly, I have been thinking along these lines more and more of late. There has been an insidious movement in this country over a number of years whereby the state is managing our lives and using technology to control our freedoms, rather than to bring us benefits. There are more and more fixed penalties for all sorts of things, that we didn't have before, which is a surreptitious way of the state collecting more of our resources. Is our way of life in this country improving? Is it Hell!
£3.73 wrote:Assuming you are an average person :-
You are taxed & national insuranced. (there's over a third of your wage gone)
You have to buy things (15% VAT)
If you drive, drink or smoke, (there's HUGE amounts of duty)
You may invest in a private pension (beware. you will be taxed on it (assuming the pension fund still exists when you retire))
Here's where it gets clever.
You have a mortgage, or you just want to save the rest. (3 guesses who now has a controlling interest in most of the banks)
You think you can invest offshore (look what happened to Iceland & the outcome of G20 is that there is now globally nowhere to stash your cash)
If you do make it to retirement & need care (any savings or property you still have will be taken from you)
CHECKMATE
£3.73 wrote:Horse wrote: Not had sex
why ? do you make a lot of noise ?
have you been ASBO'd ?
c'mon ... we need to know !
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