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I know it's shut, I had to tell you, remember? You forgot already. You were confidently telling us it was doing well when it was actually shut. Just as you're confidently telling us that there are people paid to go on protests and who get free beer.
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Your imagination is working overtime today. Too many pints at the Manor Club maybe.
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I found out recently which country spends the most public money per capita - by far - on healthcare. Not Sweden or Denmark or France, but the USA. All of which goes to private companies who provide really poor value for money - it's essentially a handout for corporations. So yeah, given how much of the NHS has been hoovered up by private companies, just giving figures for overall spend doesn't really tell you much and certainly doesn't tell you how much gets spent on actual healthcare.
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Dutch General Election Live: First Exit Poll Shows Geert Wilders'.
Delbow replied to The_DADDY's topic in General Discussions
I'm not sure the Dutch system is really a win/lose situation like in the UK is it? -
Dutch General Election Live: First Exit Poll Shows Geert Wilders'.
Delbow replied to The_DADDY's topic in General Discussions
I dunno, it is possibly a bit surprising. The firewall between mainstream right wing parties in Europe and the far right isn't as strong as it used to be (see: Italy). And I can't tell whether the deal breaker for Wilders was being PM and whether the other parties were willing to work with him if he wasn't PM. -
Can anyone explain why economic growth is so important? Why does the economy have to keep 'growing ', especially when periodic economic contraction is hardwired into the capitalist model?
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Well I'm sure his theories are open to criticism - any economist is. It bears repeating that the type of classical economists you reference were confident that securitization mitigated risk and that loads of financial products like CDOs were AAA rated, right up until the moment that they were in fact total junk and full of risk. Money isn't real and it's a barrier to getting things done. We have the raw materials to build the housing we need but we can't 'afford' it; we know what we need to save ourselves from environmental meltdown but we can't 'afford' it; we know we should train more doctors but we can't 'afford' them. A great example is fuel prices before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine - imagine trying to explain it to a more advanced species. "Well, there was this gas and I used it to heat my home, and then some people from over there attacked some other people over there and down a bit, and then some other people (called commodities brokers) decided that I couldn't use the gas to heat my home anymore" 'Had you run out of gas then?' "No, no, the gas was still there but I couldn't use it to heat my home anymore" 'Why not?' "Because the commodities brokers said I couldn't, because of the completely made up stuff called money" 'Well why have you organised things like that instead of just using the resources you have in a way that's sustainable' "I don't know, it just sort of happened. Or a small number of people made it happen and the rest of us just went 'uh ok' and just accepted that we couldn't use the gas or eat the food that we used to" You'd sound like an idiot.
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Sheffield: Real Ale Capital Of The World!
Delbow replied to SheffieldForum's topic in Sheffield News & Discussions
It is great living in such a beer city. Friends moved to Edinburgh and while it's lovely, the beer is no good and they miss Sheffield's offering. I'd like to point out that I get to pubs by 'active travel' so that makes it fairly healthy, right? -
It's a really interesting and thought provoking article. Anyone reading it and thinking 'this can't be true' should remember that in 2007-8 we all discovered that money is not real and that money that was thought / believed / assumed to exist while we decided it did, did not exist after we decided it didn't. Which highlights that the 'lack' of money (which doesn't exist, remember) can't be the reason for not being able to do things. In fact, the concept of money is a barrier to doing things.
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Frank Hester's Racist Comments About Diane Abbott
Delbow replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
Agreed. There are some real dregs on here, happily they are not representative of most Sheffielders -
Frank Hester's Racist Comments About Diane Abbott
Delbow replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
Axe is a troll and a compost-tier one at that, I don't know why you waste so much time responding to him. I wouldn't be surprised if he refers to Peter Sutcliffe as 'the gentleman' - in private, of course. -
Just not quite racist enough to justify giving back the £10 mil, am I right?
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A crapulous contribution.
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£10m buys silence. What else does it buy, I wonder.